Sentence examples for distress plays from inspiring English sources

Riley, whose perpetual facial expression seems to convey chronic stomach distress, plays Vince, a young electrician in Ohio whose father is in critical condition in the hospital, requiring surgery more expensive than what Vince can raise by taking a second mortgage on the house.

Considering that such diagnoses require consensus between GPs and patients on the psychosocial nature of the symptoms, it is plausible that distress plays a role in motivating patients to seek help and to discuss psychological issues with their doctor.

The objective of this study was to evaluate the contribution of work, non-work and individual factors to obesity with regard to gender-related differences, and to clarify the mediating role that psychological distress plays in these dynamics over a 14-year period.

This study aimed to evaluate the contribution of work, non-work and individual factors to obesity with regard to gender-related differences, and to clarify the mediating role that psychological distress plays in these dynamics in Canada from 1994 to 2008 using the Canadian National Population Health Survey (NPHS).

Key informants' concerns about the inadequacies of the hospital system in allaying parental distress appear well founded as one study found that parental distress played a more important role in the persistence of post traumatic stress disorder symptoms in children than the extent of the injury or the course of hospitalisation [ 28].

In the film "Damsels in Distress," he plays a "playboy or operator"; in the Amazon pilot "The Cosmopolitans," he's an ex-pat warming seats in Saint-Germain cafés.

While psychosocial distress undoubtedly plays an important role in these less than ideal outcomes, poor pre-procedure selection and diagnosis, is a major contributing factor to failure [ 7].

The clinic is peopled with slack-jawed, wild-haired patients whose symptoms and distress are played, offensively, as comedy.