Even before the coup, Alexandre Schmidt said he often felt vexed at the Bissau-Guineans.
His father saw Mr. Santacruz's move as courageous but felt vexed to have invested in his son's degrees, only to see him leave his country in a state of disillusionment.
Simmons was playing vexed, but it didn't feel like a failing gig – more like a gig whose supposed failure reinforced the Aussie comic's signature air of desperate futility.
The country has not yet felt the burden of AIDS, which has vexed tuberculosis treatment elsewhere, in large numbers.
Although "Scrabble" is flashy, it is has been plagued by bugs and has vexed hardcore Facebook aficionados who felt EA was trying to muscle out the independently developed "Scrabulous".
I felt let down by this uncomplicated answer: it vexed my feminist heart and confirmed my fears about men's interest in and value of women.
I felt like a heartsick Aschenbach, fresh from the barbers, vexed by the grim and dismal in the midst of hope and beauty.
Years later, when the children, now grown themselves, return home for visits, they feel a kind of nostalgia for the things that once vexed and perplexed them.
Like many museumgoers I can feel deeply ambivalent about what goes on in the atrium -- variously vexed, seduced, pandered to, alienated and moved.
