How To Use Distressingly In A Sentence
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How many times in her distressingly short life must she have made a steely-eyed decision to quit?
Times, Sunday Times
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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
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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
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It is distressingly easy to become disillusioned and cynical while working on a development aid project.
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Screens froze, buttons took three presses to function and, most distressingly, half my address book made itself invisible.
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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"
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Screens froze, buttons took three presses to function and, most distressingly, half my address book made itself invisible.
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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
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In explanation of which remark, however, I must confine myself to noting that, as almost all the old monuments at Santa Croce are small, comparatively small, and interesting and exquisite, so the modern, well nigh without exception, are disproportionately vast and pompous, or in other words distressingly vague and vain.
Italian Hours
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But it all ended distressingly for her and we became her family.
Problem solved
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Her prominent commonplace brown eyes were gazing up the walk, an expression distressingly like envious anger in them.
Susan Lenox: Her Fall and Rise, Volume I
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Hackles rising straight from his neck, his eyes bugged distressingly as he tracked Samantha's measured pace from the back of the chamber to the chair beside the bench.
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He rocks, shuffles and chews a plastic bottle, then sits in that distressingly human way bears have with his back to the wall and lifts his face to a glimmer of watery sunshine.
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Political conventions have become distressingly routine and disturbingly predictable.
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More distressingly the chemotherapy made her give off a particularly unpleasant odour.
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More distressingly the chemotherapy made her give off a particularly unpleasant odour.
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He rocks, shuffles and chews a plastic bottle, then sits in that distressingly human way bears have with his back to the wall and lifts his face to a glimmer of watery sunshine.
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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
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Distressingly these encouraged narrow-minded ideas based upon sexual objectivism are just as prevalent in animation…
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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
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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'
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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
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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
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This was the most distressingly unpleasant and humiliating experience of my life that didn't involve medical staff.
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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.
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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
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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.
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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
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Perhaps most distressingly of all, there has been little progress in assisting rape survivors, let alone convicting those responsible.
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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
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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
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And I ultimately wound up changing nearly every font to different flavors of Arial, which yields a distressingly mundane appearance.
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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.
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And I ultimately wound up changing nearly every font to different flavors of Arial, which yields a distressingly mundane appearance.