Sentence examples for a distressing but from inspiring English sources

What's more, we've had a distressing but persistent impulse to venerate our leaders beyond their actual power.

There is a distressing incident, but not of such magnitude that the facts themselves are haunting.

That may not be the best choice of words for such a distressing subject, but it's easy to see what she means.

"She is comparing something which I have no doubt is a distressing experience, but it is never helpful or appropriate to use sexual violence as a metaphor for experiences in that way.

As they investigate, they find evidence of domestic abuse on a distressing scale, but the truth, "things you wouldn't want to believe", keeps slipping out of their grasp.

Hume seems to find this a distressing thought, but allows that we "must distinguish betwixt personal identity, as it regards our thought or imagination, and as it regards our passions or the concern we take in ourselves" (T I.4.6 253).

The K10 result,, should be interpreted with caution as entry to prison can be a distressing event but, nonetheless, the findings here are broadly consistent with the well-established high levels of poor mental health among people in prison (Butler et al. 2011b; Fazel and Danesh 2002).

It's a distressing fact, but for persons with Alzheimer's the cost of care services can double, if not triple, compared to persons without dementia.

(1995) investigated the differential impact of imagery and verbal processing on subsequent intrusions following a distressing video, but the question remains whether imagery about a personally-relevant current worry topic would lead to less subsequent negative intrusions than worry in verbal form.

Many women and men feel reluctant to talk about what is often a distressing and bewildering – but far from rare – experience.

Voice-hearing might be a distressing experience for many, but it doesn't have to be.