Sentence examples for as troubling as it from inspiring English sources

He described a ride that was as troubling as it was brief.

Mr. Williams said he had found the role as troubling as it was rewarding.

"As troubling as it is," he continued, "I would like the audience to have some feeling for him.

"As troubling as it is, I can ask a young marine to go back to Iraq," he said.

What we are fighting -- as destructive and as troubling as it may be to most of us -- is an idea, and we cannot wipe out ideas and ideologies with our physical power only.

For the Sunday Times's Daisy Goodwin, it was "almost as troubling as its awful subject matter", leaving the reader unsure if "her flat, affectless prose is a stylistic choice or simply the deadened testimony of a survivor".

And for the West, Russia's enduring weakness should be at least as troubling as its much-advertised new strength.Compared with the late 1990s, when it was ruled by a drunk and its currency collapsed, Russia has grown stronger under Mr Putin.

(Its means — invoking the state-secrets privilege — are as troubling as its ends).

The circumstances by which the United States came to occupy Guantánamo are as troubling as its past decade of activity there.

"She freaked out and had a bilateral mastectomy," said Otis Brawley, chief medical officer for the American Cancer Society, who worried that this patient's particular mutation was not as troubling as she worried it was.

As troubling as that is, it does not change the fact that, unlike the Vietnam War, there is no question about why we are in Afghanistan in the first place.