Sentence examples for with vexation from inspiring English sources

He scowls with vexation, as if even he were puzzled about his identity.

One splutters with vexation; another gives vent to a ripe Freudian slip.

Predictably, the siblings connect when they band together against a common enemy, but most episodes end with vexation.

The rain and provincialism soon filled this Apollonian artist with vexation; his destination had been mischosen and he booked his passage to Venice.

Last year, during an interview with young, newcomer producers Gabe and Alan Polsky, who produced Werner Herzog's remake of The Bad Lieutenant and are the heirs to an energy fortune, the question of whether or not they would marry within the tribe was met with vexation and displeasure.

She holds forth on each topic with entertaining vexation.

Do you recognize me?" Then, smiling disingenuously into the cameras, he delivers the Horton news again, with increasing vexation.

Shortly after taking office, the mayor went to Baltimore for the day, which his press aides did reveal, and was then trailed by a reporter for The Post, something he reacted to with great vexation.

Along with other vexations of her teaching job — such as coping with the fragile egos of students who, she noted in her journal, viewed Cs as failing grades, and deliberating over which student to select for the Harvard Monthly Prize (one year she chose an older married student who was not even enrolled in the college) — she particularly disliked being seen as a female role model.

Mr. Saeed's vexation with America is hardly uncommon in this nation of 150 million.

He depicts the characters in "Talk Talk" — and indeed all his fiction — in their pettiness and vexation, with their exonerating ambitions and addled schemes for fulfilling them.