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madden

[mad-n] / ˈmæd n /


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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

They must have been things meant not to quiet it but to madden it.

From "The Magician's Nephew" by C. S. Lewis

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

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

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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