Sentences with phrase «maddening experience»

Ape Out is a glorious and maddening experience, all at once instinctual, and like nothing you've ever played before.

But besides adjustable difficulty (very welcome since the bad controls made the original a maddening experience), the block - breaking issue is the only major fix.

It was been such a maddening experience trying to find an adequate diet that she can tolerate.

Egg hens live in battery cages, wire enclosures no bigger than an i - pad where up to 10 birds are held together... anyone with claustrophobia can sympathize with this maddening experience.

It's a maddening experience and something B&N should have fixed long ago.

Because I did not feel good about myself, shopping was always a difficult, maddening experience.

It was a maddening experience.

We all know the maddening experience of not being able to think of a certain word that is undoubtedly in our repertoire.

Then there are scissors — the one implement that nine times out of ten gives a lefty a maddening experience of failure and torn paper.

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Welcome to the marvelous and magical as well as sometimes maddening and mystifying experience of being a father.

Crash's repetitive execution may be maddening at times, but the experience proves ultimately rewarding in more ways than one.

Despite being a maddening viewing experience at times, Lowen's film remains a powerful and honest look at a global epidemic.

But in Nolan's hands, and through IMAX - sized frames, it's a mesmerizing, maddening, and often isolating experience — this was real life.

The graphic depictions of the maddening effects of the war are never shown, leaving us to rely on our own imaginations as to what the actual experience may have been like.

And as if it even needed to be said, the last - minute 3D post-conversion adds absolutely nothing to the experience — an experience, mind you, that lasts a maddening 130 minutes for no justifiable reason whatsoever.

Those experiences were invaluable in helping me focus on what is important to the success of a large school district, in spite of the almost maddening distractions that can beset superintendents.

However, the Econ mode's retarding of our throttle inputs made passing and merging a maddening and at times terrifying experience.

It's maddening to read about his Kafkaesque travails, and almost impossible to imagine actually living through such an experience.

Recounting his many crazy and death - defying experiences as a freelance correspondent for The Guardian and The Independent, Andrew Mueller's fearless circumnavigation of some of the world's most violent and politically shady places including Kosovo, Palestine, Libya, Sarajevo, Afghanistan and Iraq — as he grapples with «possibly the most maddening mystery of our time» — could have easily become a non-PC, jaded, samey «trouble tourism» recount.

Over the top luck gameplay in the board game can be maddening and unfair ruining the experience at times.

My primary frustration with my game experience has been with connecting to Maddens servers — I've been stuck on loading screens and booted from the auction house (more on that feature later) way too many times to chalk this up to unexpected spikes in user traffic or a poor WiFi signal.

While the simultaneous Mandarin and English translations provide a literal underscore to Cheng's experience of foreignness, it is in pieces like The Bridge (2016), where a young black man traverses Hell Gate Bridge while repeating, «I do not turn around», that we are reminded that the maddening forces of Otherness and isolation are as much a homegrown effect of systemic racism than that which is lost in translation.

I am isolated a good amount of time in my own studio, and going out to the shared ceramic studio — however maddening some of those people can be at times — is a different experience.

One thing is consistent, however — kids with reactive attachment disorder display maddening behaviors that often affect their primary caregivers (often the mother in our years of experience)-- hour after hour, day after day.