The distress I was under was unbelievable.
He was in distress, I tried to reassure him.
Burton's thinking can be hard to follow: "Self is in pain and distress, I thought.
I feel for the families of victims of terror, I appreciate their suffering and distress, I am one of them.
On Friday morning, when the nurse asked me if I thought she was in distress, I said that I did.
To those who sent me pained but civil emails, I sent civil explanations back and apologised for any needless distress I might have caused them.
Now in a state of shock and distress, I persisted in my Huck Finn errand, though I had to explain everything to the woman behind the counter because I needed her to give me the book on credit.
Mr. Hart states the crux of my distress: "I believe that one's religious beliefs -- though they will and should affect one's outlook on public policy and life -- are personal and that America is a secular, not a theocratic, republic".
At 80, in a memoir written for her family, Hannah was still able to recall the jealousy and tantrums of the second wife and the depth of her own distress: "I felt that was more than I could endure, to have him divide his time and affections.
Sir David Nicholson, NHS chief executive until April 2014, said Lamb was overstating the extent of the problems, while accepting that the situation was serious: "On Norman's warning of a crash I don't buy it, and while you will undoubtedly get parts of the country in distress I would describe the approach as 'managed decline'.
To have fathered a child then would have foreclosed the only viable future life I could see for myself: one that somehow involved art, escape and a rejection of the social modes that I felt were inseparable from the distress I was in.
