Sentence examples for vexing task from inspiring English sources

19 Estimating the performance of a prediction model built from a small study is a vexing task.

Over the past 30 years team after team of directors, screenwriters and comedians has tackled a vexing task: turning a successful sketch into a successful feature film.

Yet even with computers to pinpoint the homes of the missing, officials say, finding the victims is an especially vexing task, lacking the usual clues that lead to rescues.

One advantage of this style of representation is that it absolves the writer of the interpretive rules from the vexing task of distinguishing verb complements, to be incorporated into the argument structure of the verb, from adjuncts, to be used to add modifying information.

Once art is created and collected it can be a vexing task for estates and institutions to make provisions enabling art to outlive the artist and it's caretakers for decades, generations, even centuries.

Asking tax collectors to define pornography -- a task that has vexed even the U.S. Supreme Court -- was not the only challenge for would-be interpreters of the legislation.

It was the job that was vexing.

Why vexing?

Picturesque, yes, but vexing.

This is vexing to him.

And vexing, Mr. Sergeant added.