maddening

“Yes, but there is more to it than that,” he said, with maddening mysteriousness.

He found it maddeningly difficult to read people’s nonverbal signals; and their verbal signals he often took more literally than they meant them.

He felt that a maddening finger was poking him in the side, and that the only way to make it stop was by plunging the hemostat in the nurse assistant’s slender neck.

The 23-year-old has gone from being an unquestionably talented winger, but sometimes maddeningly inconsistent, to the brilliant catalyst behind so much of their best moments this season.

It was some of the best stuff we've seen from Scotland in an age - and some of the most maddening.