How To Use Distressing In A Sentence

Ms. Miller's imprisonment for civil contempt of court was less a perfect storm — to use one of the press 'hoarier clichés to characterize a grim convergence of unpleasant events — as it was a brownout, a distressing midsummer sign that a full power outage is on its way. The Great D.C. Plame-Out, Or: Novak, Lord of the Journo-Flies
However, I still cannot understand or rationalise the distressing sequence of events that followed his death.
We have an alarming number of distressing cases in our files of youngsters, families and old folk who need us.
Poor Ernest has been suffering since Wednesday last with the jaundice, which is very distressing and troublesome, though not alarming .... The Letters of Queen Victoria, Volume 1 (of 3), 1837-1843) A Selection from Her Majesty's Correspondence Between the Years 1837 and 1861
To discuss the events at the death scene and closely examine the autopsy report is distressing to the families.

That final dependence may be experienced as distressing or peaceful, but it is not socially problematic.
This incident is particularly distressing to the members of the University administration because all fraternities and sororities participated in a workshop a year ago to address a similar situation at another institution.
As might be expected under such circumstances, the literature on this deliberately mysterious country tends to be polarized and politicized, with the ratio of opinion to fact often distressingly high.
For an institution whose culture has been built on order and seemliness, it is deeply distressing to learn of serious flaws and even criminal activity within its fold.
Distressingly these encouraged narrow-minded ideas based upon sexual objectivism are just as prevalent in animation…
Here, he again paints a distressing picture of a church in denial, a feudal hierarchy where obvious facts and urgent problems remain undiscussed out of loyalty, ambition, or arrogance.
They felt some of the impact of their painful and distressing symptoms had been eased.
These symptoms are of a transient nature but can be distressing to some. Preventing Heart Disease
being hospitalized can be confusing and distressing for a small child
distressing (or disturbing) news
All who saw the distressing scene revolted against it.
In my view, the relationship with Linda was so difficult and so peculiarly distressing upon him, that it heightened those personality weaknesses.
He had felt nauseous, wanted to vomit and, most distressing, felt he was ‘going mad’ and about to die.
I found out the most distressing thing today.
Each snippet of bad news was distressing for Philipp.
I found the story deeply distressing.
None of them had shown even the slightest glimmer of success, which was more than distressing.
You could do things that are less unfair, but they wind up seeming distressingly radical to other people. Matthew Yglesias » Jared Bernstein Explains the Connection Between Stimulus and Banking Rescue
Cats aren't by nature lazy about grooming themselves and the results of poor personal hygiene can be distressing for them.
As her pain made locomotion distressing, the father had to carry his daughter home.
This suggests that your underlying depressive illness has not gone away completely, and this might also explain why you continue to feel the distressing symptom of depersonalisation.
One of the most distressing aspects of spinal injury is an inability to regulate bowel function.
`It's always distressing,' he said, `to find that one of one's most valued colleagues is, in fact, a charlatan. THE COMPANY OF STRANGERS
These symptoms are of a transient nature but can be distressing to some. Preventing Heart Disease
Parkinson's Disease is a severe disorder of movement, presenting with muscle rigidity, tremor, and most distressing of all the inability to translate a thought into a movement.
He sounds rather more ignorant and ill-informed than the average bloke in the snug; distressing.
I suffer from obstructive sleep apnoea, a most distressing and dangerous condition which dictates my life completely.
Medical Center doctors have performed America's first incision-free myotomy, a procedure to treat achalasia, a distressing disorder which causes WN.com - Articles related to Nissan says customers likely to lease batteries
The right we say to be informed of distressing news, news of the death of a loved one, for example, does not exculpate the negligent driver in relation to the secondary consequences of his or her negligence.
This is unacceptable for both those tumours with a high doubling time, such as medulloblastoma, and those producing distressing symptoms for which radiotherapy is the most effective palliative measure, such as diffuse pontine glioma.
Case details were so distressing an experienced court clerk had to leave the hearing. The Sun
I found the story deeply distressing.
The disjuncture between a flat but durable real economy and the spate of corporate scandals distressing a weak stockmarket gives a clue to what is really going on in US capitalism.
So it's a little distressing that my kids are growing up with a mushier sense of accountability about parental money -- no doubt because we have more of it and are just too worn down and too forgetful to push the issue. When a Child 'Forgets' to Give You Change
But it is this same bond of affection that makes it so painful and distressing when things go wrong. Good Habits, Bad Habits
Self-injurious behaviour is an extremely difficult and distressing condition for staff to manage.
Akathisia has been well documented as a common and distressing side effect of antipsychotic drugs and an important cause of poor drug compliance.
One most distressing aspect of all institutions is the lack of privacy.
After all that trouble, and after all that distressing bathroom damage, the results are pretty freakin 'swank. Lessons in hair dye
We have a large number of elderly people in the area and dementia is very distressing.
They can be very distressing and need urgent medical attention. The Sun
Apart from the distressing number of literals and homophones which infest my proof copy, my main criticism is that the author never quite succeeds in bringing her subject into full view.
They can be very distressing and need urgent medical attention. The Sun
The Fountain of Saint Vulcan, anti-blepharous and amygdaloidal, was charged with such potent minerals that a single spoonful produced a diarrhoea more distressing to witness than cholera. South Wind
Some researchers believe that anorexics use the restriction of food to self-medicate painful feelings and distressing moods.
Her regular newsletters to her team of escorts -- which are distressingly disrespectful, calling them "bimbos" and "damned fools" -- repeatedly exhorted the women to destroy any notes about the appointments, and to prevent clients from taking cell-phone pictures and videos during the session. A Meticulous Data Trail May Have Saved 'D.C. Madam'
In fact, the most distressing visuals are the sad scenes of refugees who fled the bombing of Kosovo.
It can be profoundly distressing to have your bubble burst. The Sun
The US might get overflooded with distressingly ugly looking people like Shakira, Salma Hayek, or the horror! Think Progress » Buchanan: Mexico Conspiring To ‘Re-Annex’ Seven Southwest States
Distressing scenes led to constriction, reducing the flow by 35 %.
I enticed him to a field where I knew it was possible to secure an occasional oxlip, but he only looked pale, shook his head distressingly, and said, I don't think nothin 'of Mary's Meadow; and Letters From a Little Garden
Numerous people wept for their friends, husbands, parents, uncles, aunts, cousins, siblings and in some distressing cases, young sons and daughters.
These symptoms are of a transient nature but can be distressing to some. Preventing Heart Disease
She provided emotional support at a very distressing time for me.
What's most distressing about Geena Davis' and Kevin's 'worldview' is that they shrowd themselves in faux-liberal morality... but their ideal that there is a certain moral code that all media should follow or even TRY to follow is fascism - pure and simple. A special invitation from the Geena Davis Institute
I then used the ink that was on the ink blending tool to add additional ink distressing around the edges of the image as well as all over the surface to provide a more "antiqued" look. Simple dreams
It must be some puritan streak in me, but I find the detailed discussion of tastes and sensations nauseating and very distressing to read.
I found the story deeply distressing.
What was uncovered about the past was deeply distressing. Times, Sunday Times
She encounters many especially distressing illustrations of the effects of "pauperization," connecting the decline in California's system of public education and the rise in the California prison system to the bleak ignorance and moral defectiveness exemplified by a tawdry but emblematic incident in Lakewood, California, former site of defense-industry prosperity, and more recently of the "Spur Posse. False Promises
At one point during surgery, up to three of Zac Efron's hairs went slightly out of place – marking the most distressing point of his entire moon-eyed life so far. SLACKERJACK – Cute Knight
Very simple remedies are often effective to relieve the most distressing cough, such as gargling of water in the throat, holding bits of ice in the mouth, taking occasional sips of strong lemonade, and similar remedies. Alcohol: A Dangerous and Unnecessary Medicine, How and Why What Medical Writers Say
This was the most distressingly unpleasant and humiliating experience of my life that didn't involve medical staff.
You are truly disturbed and want to quit, but nothing you say works to get your exit from this unexpectedly distressing situation.
Case details were so distressing an experienced court clerk had to leave the hearing. The Sun
Only Mulligan, so charming as the precocious teen in An Education, is distressingly wan and weak as the token saint; we'll wait for further films to see which film was the correct clue to her talents.
What was uncovered about the past was deeply distressing. Times, Sunday Times
Most patients report recurrence of cancer as more distressing than receiving the initial diagnosis.
a short time before sat infructuously with this lady, when a distressing contretemps occurred. Mystic London: or, Phases of occult life in the metropolis
This distressing subject aside, the book is shot through with Connolly's inimitable humour and even in print he has the ability to render you helpless with laughter.
I hope the people responsible read this and realise how distressing their thoughtless behaviour is, particularly for people with pets.
In the end we didn't have a memorial service for him because we thought it would be too distressing. Times, Sunday Times
In some cases this can be painful, distressing and can affect your family and work.
There are other cases where the religious emotions and ideals are completely subordinated to or become identified with feelings of fear or remorse, the result of fixed ideas of a shameful, distressing or frightsome character. The Journal of Abnormal Psychology
Her vocal range was, to say the least of it, limited, and she had a distressing tendency to sing flat.
And Prescott still wants to eliminate the distressing fetor: ‘If it stinks there, it should be corrected.’
He said night moves were distressing and hospitals would be told to minimise them. Times, Sunday Times
It's always kind of distressing when the dawn cracks the sky open and birds start twittering.
Chinamen (cited by Mr Candidate Mulligan) in consequence of defective reunion of the maxillary knobs along the medial line so that (as he said) one ear could hear what the other spoke, the benefits of anesthesia or twilight sleep, the prolongation of labour pains in advanced gravidancy by reason of pressure on the vein, the premature relentment of the amniotic fluid (as exemplified in the actual case) with consequent peril of sepsis to the matrix, artificial insemination by means of syringes, involution of the womb consequent upon the menopause, the problem of the perpetration of the species in the case of females impregnated by delinquent rape, that distressing manner of delivery called by the Brandenburghers STURZGEBURT, the recorded instances of multiseminal, twikindled and monstrous births conceived during the catamenic period or of consanguineous parents — in a word all the cases of human nativity which Aristotle has classified in his masterpiece with chromolithographic illustrations. Ulysses
One of the other distressing points was his description of how this breaking down of civil society had left only those sorts of leaders who could call on atavistic or sectarian loyalties.
But it is this same bond of affection that makes it so painful and distressing when things go wrong. Good Habits, Bad Habits
`It's always distressing,' he said, `to find that one of one's most valued colleagues is, in fact, a charlatan. THE COMPANY OF STRANGERS
The courageous youngster also suffers from distressing infections caused by saliva getting into his lungs.
Minor vandalism is annoying, expensive and distressing to law-abiding citizens.
The company held a "Summer Sizzler" sale, and throughout the fall knocked half off all premium upgrades, such as dovetailed maple drawers, glazing, or distressing. StarTribune.com rss feed
American Adulterer," a compelling, if sometimes distressingly clinical, historical fiction that gives the 35th president's life as an unrepentant "fornicator" a full physical. CourierPostOnline.com - News
She provided emotional support at a very distressing time for me.
It was distressing how quickly her body reacted to Levi.
She provided emotional support at a very distressing time for me.
Warning: a distressing array of denim and leather waistcoats features in this salute to the stadium singalong. Times, Sunday Times
All who saw the distressing scene revolted against it.
Thus, despite the immeasurable advantages which England enjoyed, political, social, and industrial, her great colonial possessions from which she drew enormous wealth, and her exemption from destructive war; despite also the distressing condition of France and her recent enormous losses, we find that in seventy years of bimetallism the working Frenchman had gained wealth almost twice as fast as the working Englishman had in the same number of years of monometallism. If Not Silver, What?
They’re realistic people who are damaged in distressingly recognizable ways, and Small is left to try and escape the generational cycle. From the stack: Stitches
There is, however, in the distressing account which you give of yourself, one circum - stance, from which my heart extracts much con - solation. Memoirs of the political and private life of James Caulfield, Earl of Charlemont
a distressing coldness of tone and manner
If he ate flour in any form or however combined, in the smallest quantity, in two minutes or less he would have painful itching over the whole body, accompanied by severe colic and tormina in the bowels, great sickness in the stomach, and continued vomiting, which he declared was ten times as distressing as the symptoms caused by the ingestion of tartar emetic. Anomalies and Curiosities of Medicine
Middle-aged people, already in a state of despair about the fecklessness of the young, will find the activities of the grey and toothless equally distressing.
This mutual orgasm is extremely important, but in distressingly many cases the man's climax comes so swiftly that the woman's reactions are not nearly ready, and she is left without it. Married Love: or, Love in Marriage
Perhaps most distressingly of all, there has been little progress in assisting rape survivors, let alone convicting those responsible.
The distressing scene revolted all who saw it.
Over the last year I have lost my hair and this has been distressing. Times, Sunday Times
The decisive No vote among the younger generation was distressing.
In a few cases these feelings continue and so the physical effects of puberty can be very distressing and confusing.
It was a traumatic episode with a distressing cliffhanger.
Contrast Re 7: 3; Eze 9: 4, 6. grievous -- distressing to the sufferers. sore upon the men -- antitype to the sixth Egyptian plague. which had the mark of the beast -- Therefore this first vial is subsequent to the period of the beast's rule. Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible
Her vocal range was, to say the least of it, limited, and she had a distressing tendency to sing flat.
It was deeply distressing to see so many victims with often horrific injuries. Times, Sunday Times
However, I witnessed the distressing sight of turtles, some mortally wounded, others recovering, their shells sliced open by propellers - the direct result of this stupidity.
Volunteers watching funny films saw their arterial blood flow increase; those watching melancholy or distressing films had decreased blood flow. Times, Sunday Times
I wish I could say that this was an isolated occurrence, but it seems to happen with distressing frequency.
The scenes in the US last week were deeply harrowing and distressing.
The powerful involuntary muscle contractions are often quite distressing to the patient.
However, I still cannot understand or rationalise the distressing sequence of events that followed his death.
The hair, which is loaded with oil and bandoline, is dressed once a week, or less often in these districts, and it is unnecessary to enter into any details regarding the distressing results, and much besides may be left to the imagination. Unbeaten Tracks in Japan
Despite the advances in treatment in recent years, cancer remains a distressing disease.
As the badge of an authentic untimeliness, uncouthness marks the expectation of future rewriting, conceives itself as the object of subsequent distressings.
Her footsteps resounded eerily through the six levels of stairs, as her thoughts raced through evil and distressing scenarios.
It's distressing enough to find a worm in your apple but finding half of one is worse.
The general practitioner is a first port of call for people with all manner of distressing circumstances.
One of the more distressing features of these supposedly godless times is the encouragement of a kind of slack-jawed piety; we must be nice about all religious institutions simply because they are, um, religious.
Deterrence and punishment are not rational options, and politicians who seek to inflame public feeling in these distressing cases are being forced to recognise this.
Autism causes behavioural patterns that can be deeply distressing to all concerned.
Ringbone and sidebone, two closely related orthopedic problems of the lower limbs, used to be considered almost inevitable hallmarks of the working harness horse, and they are still distressingly common in horses which deal with heavy-duty concussive forces and those with certain conformational problems. TheHorse.com News
He spoke with a timid gentleness of tone, an ingratiatory smile, and an anxious courtesy of manner, all distressingly suggestive of his being accustomed to receive rough answers in exchange for his own politeness from the persons whom he habitually addressed. Armadale
But music remains invasive - circumambient, prolonged, distressing. Times, Sunday Times
I'm sorry to hear of your distressing experience, but the driver did the right thing.
But being bright proved a distressing burden when she was sent to boarding school at the age of eight. Times, Sunday Times
The diseases known as menorrhagia, dysmenorrhoea, leucorrhoea, amenorrhoea, abortions, prolapsus, chronic inflammations and ulcerations of the womb, with a yet greater variety of sympathetic nervous disorders, are some of the distressing forms of these derangements. Plain Facts for Old and Young
And yet it was precisely because it passed almost unnoticed that it seemed so distressing. Times, Sunday Times
And I ultimately wound up changing nearly every font to different flavors of Arial, which yields a distressingly mundane appearance.
I find it distressing to see in a lot of the news coverage of this issue, how it has forced women to belittle other women's mothering.
Could they, for example, feed one half of the audience with a sound to make them laugh, while the other half heard something poignant or distressing?
Her vocal range was, to say the least of it, limited, and she had a distressing tendency to sing flat.
Some fans have spoken in rather distressing language about incidents of crushing that conjured up, in their own minds, memories of Hillsborough.
That would be distressing were it not for hints that something better is coming. Times, Sunday Times
It will be said that children should maintain their innocence and should be protected from such distressing subjects as bereavement.
For one thing, it was now very much alive and kicking, a sensation which she found both distressing and uncomfortable.
This is a point of view which is all too familiar and one which, to use a distressingly plebeian phrase, gets right up my nose.
Perhaps most distressing are the injuries inflicted on our definitively non-renewable resource: archaeology.
Volunteers watching funny films saw their arterial blood flow increase; those watching melancholy or distressing films had decreased blood flow. Times, Sunday Times
For one thing, having one's phone tapped or movements filmed is inherently much less distressing, harmful and morally repugnant than the physical suffering and loss of autonomy involved in being strapped to a chair and, say, having someone drill into an unanesthetised tooth. The Spirit Upwelling
Her vocal range was, to say the least of it, limited, and she had a distressing tendency to sing flat.
The symptoms became quite distressing and, after a negative colonoscopy, a simple test revealed that I was lactose intolerant.
Denial is a powerful emotional defence against acknowledging painful, distressing or troubling knowledge.
The album isn't bad because it isn't distressing or painful, which one would expect from poignancy.
Autism causes behavioural patterns that can be deeply distressing to all concerned.
And I ultimately wound up changing nearly every font to different flavors of Arial, which yields a distressingly mundane appearance.
‘It lays to rest some of the wild rumours that have been circulating which have been unhelpful and distressing for the families,’ he said.
But it all ended distressingly for her and we became her family. Problem solved
Her case is one of the most distressing taken up by campaigners who want the government to provide financial assistance to thalidomide victims. Times, Sunday Times
The thing that was so distressing though was that they looked perfect. SHOPPED: The Shocking Power of British Supermarkets
One of the most distressing developments in journalism is this need to "prognosticate" the reaction of others. Howard Dean: Party Elders All Agree Race Shouldn't Go To Convention
For a moment only, for is it not the soul, a kind of discontented crying out against pleasure and pain, which comes back distressingly into this after all pathetic music? Plays, Acting and Music A Book Of Theory
But even this court was shocked, not only by the seeming pervasive scope of misconduct but even more distressingly by the seeming casualness by which such conduct is employed. Christine A. Scheller: 'Felon' Is The New N-Word
The presence of a bird with a wingspan of around 1.5m must have been very distressing.
First then, as Fine Art delights in proportion to the delectating interest of the objects it depicts, and, as subsequently stated, grieves or distresses in proportion as the objects are grievous or distressing, we have this resultant: "Fine Art excites in proportion to the excitor influence of the object;" and then, that "fine art excites either the sensory or the mental faculties, in a like proportion to the excitor properties of the objects respectively. The Germ, Issue #1: Thoughts Toward Nature in Poetry, Literature, and Art
She had a good point about speaking up in a distressing situation.
From hour to hour I reproach myself for that excess of faith and trustfulness which has led to such distressing consequences; and almost from minute to minute, I hope that Mr Dombey may explain himself, and relieve the torture I undergo, which is extremely wearing. Dombey and Son
Your daughter probably witnessed distressing scenes when she was little and her dad was aggressive. The Sun
She turns them all on so she can listen to the crazy chorus of crescendoing cacophony; it's a distressing dissonance like chattering chipmunks and chirping canaries conversing. Nancy Ruhling: Astoria Characters: The Saw Lady
Apart from the distressing number of literals and homophones which infest my proof copy, my main criticism is that she never quite succeeds in bringing her quicksilver subject into full view.
In some cases this can be painful, distressing and can affect your family and work.
It is distressingly easy to become disillusioned and cynical while working on a development aid project.
The distressing, and to my mind accurate, message that monopolies are putting profit before human and animal health and well being, is potent and distrubing, and would have been much better served without the emotional overkill, the taint of exaggeration; the helping of ham-fisted propaganda. (and okay, enough with the hackneyed food metaphors). Food Inc. and the stench of ham-fisted exaggeration
And he has a most distressing ally in this effort, a media suddenly gone mushy and unfocused.
Quoting the work of Naomi Eisenberger, a neuroscientist at the University of California Los Angeles (UCLA), Rock explains how functional brain imaging studies show that exposing normal subjects to rejection and exclusion activates the same parts of the brain (e.g. the dorsal portion of the anterior cingular cortex) that are also involved in the distressing component of pain. Dr. Sharma’s Obesity Notes » Blog Archive » The Social Pain of Weight Bias
Screens froze, buttons took three presses to function and, most distressingly, half my address book made itself invisible.
The project of bringing economic reasoning to bear on social problems is usually loaded with neoliberal assumptions and ideological biases, and its boosters are distressingly naive about the past damage done in the name applying market know-how. Mark Engler: Nicholas Kristof's Boneheaded "Paean to Economists"
Henry 10.188 speaks of a German officer who accidentally swallowed a piece of beer bottle, 3/8 x 1/8 inch, which subsequently penetrated the esophagus, and in its course irritated the recurrent laryngeal and vagi, giving rise to the most serious phlegmonous inflammation and distressing respiratory symptoms. Anomalies and Curiosities of Medicine
Hart belts out the Sinatra standards, but while his vocal impersonation is impressive, his barnet is so distressing it often looks like there's a second microphone on screen.
The order also forbids him from spitting, throwing, harassing, distressing, alarming, assaulting, intimidating, threatening or abusing anything or anyone, or provoking others to do so.
However, I still cannot understand or rationalise the distressing sequence of events that followed his death.
The jury had heard harrowing and distressing evidence about the shooting.
The television reports about the famine were particularly distressing.
It can be profoundly distressing to have your bubble burst. The Sun
Sutton arrived as damaged goods after a distressing season at Chelsea.
It has wakened memories and bought it all back and I think it would have been emotionally a bit distressing to have gone.
Until the late 1950s it was practically the only effective remedy for a most distressing disorder.
Her vocal range was, to say the least of it, limited, and she had a distressing tendency to sing flat.
Daily hassles refer to ‘irritating, frustrating, and distressing demands that characterize everyday transactions with the environment’.
This would allow hundreds of elderly people to avoid progressive cognitive decline that is highly distressing to them and their families, and to lead independent lives. Times, Sunday Times
It would be very distressing for these animals. The Sun
Mr. Nuttall, who has just returned from the dalles, where he has been spending some weeks, brings distressing intelligence from above. Townsend Chapter 13
One of the truly distressing studies of recent times showed that a majority of Scottish men choose to be overweight because they don't want to appear puny.
It is upsetting, nay distressing, to read that Leeds United Football Club may be forced into administration with debts totalling eighty-one million pounds.
The ball shone with an unearthly light, further distressing the fish that had not yet discovered a way out.
Being only a "cookee," [AA] he had no person to wait upon him, but was obliged to submit to the distressing operation of feeding himself in the manner proscribed by the superstitious ordinance; and he was told by the tohunga, or priest, that if he presumed to put one finger to his mouth before he had completed the work he was about, the atua (divinity) would certainly punish his impious contempt, by getting into his stomach before his time, and eating him out of the world. John Rutherford, the White Chief
One of the best methods of combating this distressing pattern may be through toll pricing.
These symptoms are of a transient nature but can be distressing to some. Preventing Heart Disease
The uncouth language of the younger generation was particularly distressing.
Sadly, life is not all games and unwise laundry techniques, and Purple Elephant has a slightly distressing story of everyday chibbing folk and some truly extraordinary behaviour and not in a good way. Britblog Roundup #43
Screens froze, buttons took three presses to function and, most distressingly, half my address book made itself invisible.
She is what I call distressingly good; one doesn't want to be treated like a wild beast in a menagerie, and to be every now and then stirred up with a long stick. Sowing and Reaping
Mr Carker was a gentleman thirty-eight or forty years old, of a florid complexion, and with two unbroken rows of glistening teeth, whose regularity and whiteness were quite distressing.
It is too painful and distressing for me to describe in detail exactly what happened.

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