"Well," he said with a chuckle, not a bit like someone in distress, "it would have been good to have my man in".
But the economic distress it has left in its wake is pushing a rising tide of workers into precarious straits in France and across the European Union.
If it is a distressed account of a marriage in distress, it is also a poem in praise of the married state.
I regret the error and the distress it caused.
I absolutely regret it, the distress it caused for Miriam".
"First I distress it, and then I sand it, and then I distress it again," he began.
Time and again, as it comes to the next stage of deterioration or distress, it flinches.
"The distress it has ocationed is Past my discription," she wrote him.
My colleagues have informed the victims' families and apologised to them for the unnecessary distress it will undoubtedly cause them.
Zimbabwe's inflation is officially computed with a dizzying accumulation of zeros that offers little clue to the distress it inflicts.
Ms Channing has received compensation from the Revenue for the errors it has made and the distress it has caused.
