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Discover LudwigThe phrase "a really distressing" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe something that causes significant emotional pain or discomfort.
Example: "The news of the disaster was a really distressing experience for everyone involved."
Alternatives: "a very troubling" or "an extremely upsetting".
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Friends waiting for abortions have explained their insane, home-invasion night-terrors as what must be their subconscious ditching any semblance of imagination and resorting to base-level freak-outs, which is a really distressing prospect.
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There still hasn't been an apology and the other really distressing thing was having to leave our clients behind, and being really concerned about their wellbeing and what happened to them," she said.
"It was really distressing to me," said Peter Galvin, a founder of the Center for Biological Diversity, based in Tucson.
Speaking at the Adventure Travel Conference 2014, Ms Proudlove said the financial consequences can be dire: "They're really sad cases, really distressing, and you see people losing a lot of their own savings, re-mortgaging their house even".
These economies account for over half of world output (for the moment, at least).The really distressing thing is to try and project these lines forward a bit.
I find it really distressing," he says.
It's really distressing then, to not be able to choose.
I found it really distressing to listen to the radio report about the teacher who sexually abused children in his primary school class.
"It was really sad – when you see a peer of yours, who you have loved since you were 14, 15… To see her widowed, dressed in black, burying her husband with three little children round her legs – it's really, really distressing.
On April 3 2013, she emailed about the retrial: It was really distressing and incomprehensible news, but I've lurched myself over the emotional hump and now I'm just trying to think of what's the best, most intelligent way to move forward and confront this.
The Edinburgh mother added: "The report is really distressing to read.
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