be maddened

Those looking for a sleek life story will sometimes be maddened by Perl’s digressions.

You can dip into it anywhere and be maddened, confused or stirred.

It's unlikely, although I like the suggestion of reading 25 pages a day out loud in an Irish accent: "You'll be maddened, you'll be moved, and you'll be done in about four weeks."

Why should I not be maddened as others are?

He then hastily partook of some refreshment, and taking a few of his own men, and the servants and those who had escaped from Strawberry Hill, he returned to that station to remove, if possible, the signs of the outrage, and bring the bodies of the victims to his own place; so that if Rainsfield should have heard of the circumstance before his arrival he would not be maddened by a sight of the murderous destruction.