Sentence examples for a distress to from inspiring English sources

Tullio had been known for his charm, his athleticism, and his winning way with women — a distress to his own father, who, on his deathbed, ordered his son to stop being a ladies' man and settle down.

It is one of many misunderstandings that apply a comical distress to the surface of a more painful tale.

"This has been a great distress to me — I invested a lot of time and money in R.B.S".

Anyway, you had a dead child, right?' 'You know this?' It was an old distress to me, a neat ring- pull on my canned emotions.

Nine times out of ten, nothing really serious does happen -- merely a little distress to individuals or to groups.

"It could cause a lot of distress to a lot of people.

"[Ellie's] journey from a damsel in distress to a fully capable and complex character is made clear through the relationship she develops with Joel," wrote Neonakis.

There's an emotional distress to being in that place for hours at a time.

Use this universal sign of a motorist in distress to locate a police officer if you're broken down or in a car accident.

After he makes a distress call to the office, Dwight Schrute Rainn Wilsonn) comes to "rescue" him, but crashes his car into a pole and suffers a concussion.

Those on board made a distress call to their families in Calais, according to a BBC reporter in Kent.