Sentence examples for he vexed from inspiring English sources

Time and again he vexed his financial backers and campaign advisers by floating ideas that he knew would cost him votes.

He vexed the vestrymen of St . Pauls by hanging a line of American flags across the street from the museum to a tree in the churchyard.

Holding forth at campaign rallies and before visiting reporters, he vexed Beijing with his advocacy of Taiwanese independence and riveted Washington, which saw him both as democratic pioneer and mercurial troublemaker.

The flair for publicity (the fur hat on a pre-election Moscow trip), the memorable phrase-making ("a little local difficulty", "the wind of change", "events, dear boy, events"), that delightful, conspiratorial sense, conveyed by twinkling eye and urbane manner, that we were all in on the joke together: it was no wonder he vexed his opponents, then and later.

One of Mr. McCain's closest friends, Senator Lindsey Graham, Republican of South Carolina, weighed in as well, pushing so hard for Mr. Lieberman — Mr. McCain, Mr. Graham and Mr. Lieberman are longtime traveling companions — that he vexed some of the other advisers.

Growing up in New York, he vexed his mother with impossible questions about the emptiness of existence, but he was precocious about his innocent sexual curiosity.

And he said he was vexed by the extent to which the city was unable to act on critical matters without the approval of Albany, and by some of the city's more oddball systems.

Allardyce's fondness for Nolan is such that he has signed him for three clubs – Bolton Wanderers and Newcastle United as well as West Ham – so he was as perplexed as he was vexed by the 31-year-old's folly, especially as it came only three weeks after Nolan was sent off at Liverpool for an equally foolish tackle on Jordan Henderson.

Although he's vexed, even depressed, by many aspects of contemporary culture he analyses, he stops short of pessimism, and the essays rarely conclude without opening at least some minute window of possibility.

"A grand crowd... good people," he said, and I realized that he was vexed with me for not having been there.

Explanations abounded: he was vexed by the dimensions of new and spacious Citi Field; he was "reaching" for the ball instead of swinging with authority; and, after being beaned in August by a Matt Cain fastball, he had become gun-shy when pitched to inside.