(1) Davenport, possibly in a fit of pique at having been knocked out, said playing Mauresmo was like 'playing a guy'.
(2) I believe that it is too valuable to be destroyed in a fit of resentment, pique or disillusion.
(3) Photograph: Redferns Maurice made his Broadway debut in 1875 in Pique.
(4) For real will-this-do illustrating, look no further than conjoined twins Tip and Tap , although they admittedly boast a certain erstaz charm not seen post- Pique (the much-maligned Goleo VI and Pille the Erudite Ball apart).
(5) This week another couple of reader missives piqued our attention.
(6) 87 min: With the ball pinging around the Inter box, Pique takes the ball around Cesar and tries to shoot goalwards, only for a defender to hack clear.
(7) In any case, Caine’s interest was piqued by more mundane matters: it was the first time he had been asked to play a conductor.
(8) He turned down a contract with Nottingham Forest because his ambition was piqued by the more exciting opportunities that Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge, could offer.
(9) 1998 Gaddafi expels 30,000 Palestinians from Libya in pique over Israel-PLO peace negotiations.
(10) 79 min: Birsa is booked for kicking the ball away in a fit of pique at a handball decision that went against him.
(11) 83 min: Ah, here's what happened: Clerc had come on for Reveillere, who was losing the place in a fit of pique.
(12) 54 min In a daft way Spain are lucky to just have conceded a goal, because both Casillas and Pique could have given away a penalty and been sent off during that attack.
(14) His dainty close control was beautiful and took him past both Pique and Puyol; then, from 10 yards, he deliberately poked the ball wide of Casillas with his right foot, and it came flush off the post.
(15) Barr believed that had piqued the interest of the "FBI, the Director of National Intelligence, and the US military".
(16) and quickly realise this won't pique anyone's interest enough for them to take time out of their superfast scrolling to reply.
(18) At the very end, his pique at a peak, Prince declared that language was so confining that 'I might just stop talking again and not do interviews'.
(19) He is piqued by their European ban , and with good reason: what is Wesley Sneijder without the Champions League, what is the Champions League without Wesley Sneijder?
(20) The symbolist writer Merezhkovsky, piqued, had characterised all futurists as boors.
Vexed
Definition:
(imp. & p. p.) of Vex
(a.) Annoyed; harassed; troubled.
(a.) Much debated or contested; causing discussion; as, a vexed question.
Example Sentences:
(1) De Boer's successor's first tasks will be to keep the US aboard the negotiations and to clear up the vexed question of the legal status of the Copenhagen accord , the deal struck at Copenhagen by a small group but not endorsed by a majority of countries.
(2) There is also the vexed question of what should be the legal form of any Paris agreement, a subject likely to keep negotiators up late into the night at the conference, and some anxiety among the hosts over whether the text of a deal can be formulated in due time.
(3) But the bigger question, the one that has vexed historians, biographers and holocaust experts for eight decades, is why she was there.
(4) Cs (2 mM) reduced diastolic depolarization (DD) at different [Ca]O and in 10.8 mM [Ca]O revealed an oscillatory potential (VOS) and the decay of a prolonged depolarization (Vex).
(5) The past few days have been vexing ones for reporting guidelines, voluntary or legal.
(6) The present data also highlighted the vexed relationship between stress and seizure control, which needs to be further investigated.
(7) Another vexed national question in the coming months will be this one: who is the most worthy winner of BBC Sports Personality of the Year?
(8) Delivery of monoclonal antibodies to solid tumors is a vexing problem that must be solved if these antibodies are to realize their promise in therapy.
(9) Pathologists without considerable experience in the diagnosis of bone tumors find this question especially vexing.
(10) Caffeine (5 mM) abolishes Vos and Ios and increases Vex and Iex (as DOXO does), and adding DOXO slightly increased Vex and Iex.
(11) Posttraumatic joint stiffness is particularly vexing in the small joints.
(12) In this spirit, a vignette is offered from a clinical area in which questions of "health" and "illness" are particularly vexing at present.
(13) Some might argue that our eyes weren't quite on the ball back in '89: never mind the cataclysmic political upheaval in eastern Europe – the results of which still echo around the world – let's devote ourselves to a page concerned with vexed questions such as: why is water wet?
(14) The draft provides scant details on the vexed subject of accountability for emission reduction programmes.
(15) Nowhere was the commission’s balancing act more finely weighted than on the vexed question of bioenergy, which Cañete admitted was “a clear problem”.
(16) The top Chinese negotiator, Xie Zhenhua, said there was also a possibility of advances on the vexed issued of transparency – how to monitor, report and verify each nation's emissions to ensure they are honouring their pledges.
(17) But now it’s Isis who are the insurgents,” leaving the peshmerga with the vexing challenge of defending and holding territory.
(18) On the vexed issue of longer term finance, the Ethiopian prime minister Meles Zenawi presented an offer to reduce developing country demands by 75% to $100bn a year from 2020, in return for guarantees of how the money would be distributed.
(19) Discussed here are some contours of the vexing problem of adequate minority participation in the health professions and a brief discussion of some programs that appear to be working.
(20) After the creed and some Benjamin Britten, and a blessing and a long round of applause, the man charged with holding together the fractious global Anglican communion as it struggles with the vexed issues of women bishops and same-sex marriage processed out of the cathedral and into the bitterly cold spring afternoon.