Sentence examples for a distressing amount of from inspiring English sources

There's little point in blaming individual dancers (though there is a distressing amount of dead wood among the company's principals); the larger pattern is altogether paler than it used to be.

Chappell said that at No. 778 there was "more repose in arrangement, less in detail," and concluded that "there is a distressing amount of half-baked architecture in New York, an architecture which seems to proclaim loudly a lack of the training necessary for fine work".

Ominously, Mr. Huelskamp likened the right-wing's plans to continue fighting same-sex marriage to its fight against legal abortions after Roe v. Wade — a slow and steady campaign that has continued for 40 years and has had a distressing amount of success.

The document (which condensed into a tellingly apt essence — "people data… Facebook information" — above, when we ran it through Word It Out's word cloud tool) would probably come in handy if you needed to put a small child to sleep, given Facebook repeats itself a distressing amount of times.

But as distressing as this sounds, a healthy amount of optimism about the future of Tulane football exists these days.

Most sauces contain a good amount of sugar, which has a distressing tendency to scorch and blacken.

Day in, day out officers here wade through an infinite amount of extremely distressing material.

The reviewed studies give ample evidence that youth in several countries are exposed to a considerable amount of potentially traumatic and distressing life events and that the PTSD-like state prevalences are comparable to what is found in adult studies.

Rather, it is a distressing reality of today's world.

The sons of the household had a distressing habit of doing away with them selves.

Many are damaged and I saw a distressing number of dead bodies.