maddening

One first that would involve only a short bus ride has maddeningly eluded him.

"I think that has continued to just come back up over and over and over again. It does not have to be this way, and it is beyond maddening."

A maddening combination of good intentions and self-destructive tendencies — accommodating sensitivity and unforgivable pettiness — Vicente has a sharp mind for math, physics and astronomy that he loves sharing with his daughters.

It was a maddening journey but I learned a lot.

As one reader put it, camping is “the quintessential escape from the maddening machinations of our urban quotidien.”