1. He became exasperatingly capricious and exacting.

2. Goertz found the IRA exasperatingly amateur.

3. But I found the saving exasperatingly slow.

4. Their progress was exasperatingly slow, but we were beyond exasperation.

5. What Lear revered in Gould - his remarkable business sense and financial efficiency - Gould probably found exasperatingly lacking in Lear.

6. The line that the Inland Revenue has hitherto drawn between investment and trading has been exasperatingly unclear.

7. Viewed simply as a novel, "Lolita" deals with situations and emotions that would remain exasperatingly vague to the reader had their expression been etiolated by means of platitudinous evasions.

8. A meaning easily grasped by most Americans has proven exasperatingly hard for AI to comprehend consistently.