And so it is with the vexed -- and in Britain, highly politicised -- subject of explicit grammar teaching in schools, and its link or otherwise with improved writing ability.
" Why, " replied Passepartout, a little vexed that his nationality should cause this question, " we Frenchmen know how to make grimaces, it is true but not any better than the Americans do" .
Williamson and Holland had a hunch that Little-who at first denied those murders but had run out of appeals by then-might have information on cold cases that had long vexed them.
As she spoke, she felt that Captain Wentworth was looking at her, the consciousness of which vexed and embarrassed her, and made her regret that she had said so much, simple as it was.
There would be no independent state created for the Kurdish people after all, for example, a problem that has vexed the region for a century ever since.
He really tackles a question that has really vexed Catholics for the past few years about what to do about people who divorce and remarry without first getting annulments.
Talking wearied her, faces troubled her, pain claimed her for its own, and her tranquil spirit was sorrowfully perturbed by the ills that vexed her feeble flesh.