vexation

Strange, too, that so few books deal substantively with a near-universal vexation, by which I mean the tax system.

In her interpretation of these throbbing songs of forbidden love, she came from a place of clarity and equanimity rather than vexation and strife.

“I’m begging you, Michael, I’m begging you, try to make believe this is not just madness, because this is not just madness,” the voice pleads, pitch modulating and then oscillating through steadiness to vexation.

Even if you don’t care about bowling, his vexation is understandable.

His breakout came when he was named the Canadian representative to the 1997 Venice Biennale, for which he produced a video installation called Vexation Island.