Sentence examples for distraught soul from inspiring English sources

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Britten took the story from a Japanese noh play and with librettist William Plomer gave it a Christian framework (echoing The Rape of Lucretia), setting it in his beloved East Anglia, where monks act out a parable of God's good grace healing a distraught soul – as the Abbot tells his congregation, gathered in the side aisles of St Giles.

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Bobby begs Dean to bury Sam, and is distraught when he learns that Dean has sold his soul to a demon for Sam's resurrection.

As a distraught young mother, all that mattered to me was the soul of my lost child.

When he publicly aired a secretly taped telephone conversation with McNamee, his former trainer sounded distraught over having to give him up to George Mitchell, not like some deluded soul bent on destroying an all-time great.

All four 'sea intervals' are used, for once, to telling theatrical effect; in the last, 'Moonlight', a distraught Grimes holds the dead boy aloft, with a sigh to shake every soul in the theatre.

"I was distraught," said Ms. Irvine, 57, who was removed July 1. "I loved being principal — I put my heart and soul into that school for six years".

How distraught?

(Distraught) "What?

Laurie Walker is distraught.

She looked distraught.

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