Sentence examples for but frustrating from inspiring English sources

It was refreshing but frustrating.

Delving into cocktail history is fun, but frustrating.

Instead it circles and circles, which is thematic but frustrating.

His most recent trip home was "so sweet, but frustrating.

Bailey's refusal to be pigeonholed artistically is admirable, but frustrating.

The reaction from publishers was enthusiastic but frustrating — nice work, but there is no market.

In other places, Carmel is repetitive – realistically childish, perhaps, but frustrating for the reader.

Rhode Island's beaches are gorgeous, dramatic places, but frustrating for walkers and swimmers who like to go the distance.

There are hints here, too, tantalizing but frustrating, of books Orwell had in mind but never got to write.

To do that with someone who had seen this painting so many times, it was great, but frustrating.

And then they'd sing the melody and they weren't really people who could sing, so it was fun, but frustrating.