maddeningly

The dark man moved to stand in the middle of the room, his face almost but, maddeningly, not quite seen.

And the state budget will be late - sometimes maddeningly so.

Sometimes it made him maddeningly slow to make up his mind.

And it can be maddeningly difficult to determine who is ahead.

Public officials in other cities, large and small, might find that approach maddeningly simple.

But, maddeningly, only about one in 10 of them benefit significantly.

It had been two months, and progress was maddeningly slow.

Using a small test light to locate the short, Tom found the job maddeningly difficult.

They also had a way of sticking maddeningly in the brain.

At the same time, there's something maddeningly attractive about her: She's a hot little number.

And like that earlier movie, this one is maddeningly uneven.

The work went faster than could be expected, yet it was maddeningly slow.

"There's no one out here to see you," the young man said in a maddeningly reasonable voice.

At first there was maddeningly little that he hadn't already known.

For both of us time is maddeningly brief and fleeting.

Even after six years of investigation, the information remains maddeningly incomplete.

Street signs and route numbers can be maddeningly hard to find when you need them.

"All you needed to do was ask," he said, maddeningly.

Seen through the eyes of his emotions, she was maddeningly desirable.

Philip had always been deliberate, now he was maddeningly so.

"You can hear pretty good with a glass against the wall," Teddy said again, maddeningly.

His parents were intensely, even maddeningly, devoted to their son.

For a man with such strong opinions, he seemed maddeningly hard to pin down.

How could he be so maddeningly sure of himself?

Even now, he says, the accusations against him remain maddeningly vague.