Sentence examples for looking vexed from inspiring English sources

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At another event in London, a man stood up at the end of my talk looking vexed.

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She was photographed later in the week, looking thin and vexed and without her wedding ring.

But does he have to look quite so vexed and guilty?

The third and final chapter looks at the vexed issue of the rights of tenants and leaseholders.

Mr Collier looks at the vexed question of a resource "curse" (why is it, for instance, that oil has made Norway rich, but diamonds have ruined Sierra Leone?).

THIS week's Economist looks at the vexed question of high-speed rail in the United States.France, Japan, Spain, Germany, all have trains that zoom through the countryside at speeds up to 217mph (350kph).

Widdicombe's piece examines not only Rowan's career as a plagiarist but also looks into the vexed question of originality in literature: As writers from T. S. Eliot to Harold Bloom have pointed out, ideas are doomed to be rehashed.

"Right after I landed in LAX, I ran into my ex and he looked a little vexed.

"So, why am I here?" Lipton wonders again, this time looking for answers in her vexed relationship with her father, an alluring "dreamer and fantasist" who, without ever having traveled to France himself, urged his young daughter: "Darling, go to Paris.

I could not have guessed that, in two decades' time, my adopted country would be presided over by a child-man looking at that same general with a similar hunger for legitimacy and a vexed relationship to reality.

I could not have guessed that, in two decades' time, my adopted country would be presidedover by a child-man looking at that same general with a similar hunger for legitimacy and a vexed relationship to reality.

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