Distraught, mixed up and unable to cope with the pressures of the sport and the expectations of her father Stefano, she turned her back on tennis for two years, before eventually making the first of a series of comebacks that were frequently painful, tearful and abortive.
Williams, distraught, met up with her family afterward.
If McCain wins, think of this column as a modest contribution to cheering up distraught liberals.
One distraught woman paced up and down the block, in a daze.
Eventually his distraught father caught up with him, now a teenager, in Punjab and brought him home.
When Atherton resigned the England captaincy, John was so distraught she sums up her emotions by quoting King Lear.
Two women detectives finally arrived but before they could give us their attention a distraught mother turned up with her son.
Distraught relatives lined up yesterday at an improvised morgue in a bloodstained alleyway to identify some of those mangled and entombed in Saturday's quake, which measured 7.6 on the Richter scale.
Within a few months, in an emotional dance her readers might now call Murdochian, Iris had dismissed Foot, who was distraught, and taken up with Balogh, thus badly wounding her friend.
A distraught O'Keefe ended up going back to Ireland on his own, before Christmas 1995, while Natasha and Hogan got it together, somewhere between the Imp and the Masonic, on the Soundsville FC Christmas Eve pub crawl.
