Sentence examples for More distressingly from inspiring English sources

More distressingly, the authors claim that etiquette is "rooted in three fundamental principles: respect, consideration and honesty".

More distressingly, the Prince of Wales started his first extra-marital affair, with an Irish actress, provoking a confrontation with his outraged parents.

More distressingly, the very nature of Trump's campaign — its venomous bigotry, its radioactive contempt, its tribalism — may have already diminished Obama's significant cultural achievements.

More distressingly, they don't consistently specify when and where their work was exhibited in New York; that is, how visible it was beyond the artists' immediate circles of friends.

More distressingly, given the 92nd Street Y's history of supporting some of the biggest innovators in modern dance, Mr. Trice's work is in line with too much of what the festival has offered in recent years.

More distressingly, it has led to a wave of construction for which gentrification is too modest a name.

Enlivened by what he's found, he realizes that the seemingly "meek, obsequious" old retainer is more accurately, and distressingly, "a small, determined man doggedly performing his duties to the last" — attempting to secure government support for the failing estate.

Such reports are distressingly frequent: more than 120 people died from tainted alcohol in West Bengal state in 2011, and Uttar Pradesh saw dozens of drinking casualties in 2013, with some victims going blind.

'It is an idea whose time has come.' Other sports, notably cash-rich cricket and rugby union, are seeking to become more like football - and, distressingly, everyone, it can sometimes seem, is on the make.

The research documents how by 2011 the number of $2-a-day households had more than doubled "and at a distressingly fast pace" to 1.5 million (1 in 25 of all families).

In the time he served in federal and state prisons in Wisconsin, Florida and Texas he said he had no such problems.Sexual abuse in prison is distressingly common: the Justice Department estimated that more than 217,000 prisoners, including at least 17,000 juveniles, were raped or sexually abused in America in 2008.