maddening

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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

SGA, the stylish, maddening, smooth-operating Canadian point guard, is the head of the boa constrictor.

From Los Angeles Times • May 8, 2026

“It has a maddening circularity, and it’s also very hard to explain, even to the people closest to you.”

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 24, 2026

It was the most maddening part of March.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 7, 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