madden
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Written and directed by the Australian actor Frances O’Connor, making a vibrant feature filmmaking debut, it will surely madden sticklers for accuracy, which is all to the good.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 15, 2023
Not the least of Michael’s gifts is the ability to madden other minds.
From The New Yorker ● Oct. 12, 2018
The glacier-paced interactions of the actors here may initially madden you; by the end, the sense of the oppressive weight that controls their motions breaks your heart.
From New York Times ● May 22, 2016
The numb wait is their negotiating style: a heavy, frozen, wordless impassivity designed to madden and exhaust the people across the table.
From Time Magazine Archive
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They must have been things meant not to quiet it but to madden it.
From "The Magician's Nephew" by C. S. Lewis
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They're lashing out at the idea of competence that maddens them.
From Salon ● Jan. 31, 2025
Francis has a tendency for making off-the-cuff public remarks, a trait that maddens both supporters and critics alike.
From New York Times ● Oct. 21, 2020
Bungling Inspector Clouseau once again seeks the Pink Panther diamond and maddens his boss.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 11, 2019
Nothing is ever certain with Klinsmann, whose unpredictability maddens U.S. supporters and catches his own players off guard.
From Washington Post ● May 28, 2016
He despairs of us, all of us, including the model, whose surreptitious gum chewing maddens him.
From "Cat's Eye" by Margaret Atwood
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De Gaulle maddened his British hosts, and particularly Churchill, with his ceaseless complaints and ingratitude.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 13, 2026
Gertrude never quite comes into focus, but the pathos of Ophelia, maddened by grief, is enhanced by the simple yet forceful way Izzard helplessly pounds her chest.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 25, 2026
Local officials around the state say they have been similarly maddened.
From Seattle Times ● Dec. 19, 2021
The pope’s penchant for speaking in an off-the-cuff manner has maddened not only supporters and critics, but also his staff in the Roman bureaucracy.
From New York Times ● Oct. 22, 2020
The badger then upended the basket, imprisoning the maddened sparrow beneath it.
From "Redwall" by Brian Jacques
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The sound is not just big and bold, but scrubbed clean by AI with the goal of maddening perfection.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 16, 2026
And in 2024, Rose acquired Karl-Anthony Towns, a center known for a sweet shooting stroke and a maddening foul habit.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 15, 2026
Music is perhaps the purest of these art forms, tapping into our lizard brains to regulate our emotions that are seeking to make sense of this precious yet maddening existence.
From Salon ● Jun. 5, 2026
It’s Karl-Anthony Towns and Mikal Bridges, whose maddening play once clogged up the text chains of grumpy Knicks fans, but now feel like family.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 26, 2026
Of this he told his wife, and told how later he heard the choir of maddening Seirenes, coasted the Wandering Rocks, Kharybdis’ pool and the fiend Skylla who takes toll of men.
From "The Odyssey" by Homer
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