vexed question

Until recently what was on the child's school record and whether parent or child could see it was a vexed question.

It's Burns Night tonight, and high time to answer a vexed question.

Knowing who we are as humans has been one of the great vexed questions, searched after and written about down the centuries.

It depends which way round you see history as happening, and this too is now an increasingly vexed question).

And then there is the vexed question of memoir vs. novel.

I think Congress will pass it and settle the vexed question permanently.

She turned to go and find someone to settle the vexed question, but Jake stopped her.

And then there is the vexed question of morals.

All at once Theda was struck by the obvious solution to her own vexed question.

Meaning in music has always been a vexed question.