Sentence examples for distressing amount from inspiring English sources

There's little point in blaming individual dancers (though there is a distressing amount of dead wood among the company's principals); the larger pattern is altogether paler than it used to be.

Chappell said that at No. 778 there was "more repose in arrangement, less in detail," and concluded that "there is a distressing amount of half-baked architecture in New York, an architecture which seems to proclaim loudly a lack of the training necessary for fine work".

Ominously, Mr. Huelskamp likened the right-wing's plans to continue fighting same-sex marriage to its fight against legal abortions after Roe v. Wade — a slow and steady campaign that has continued for 40 years and has had a distressing amount of success.

The document (which condensed into a tellingly apt essence — "people data… Facebook information" — above, when we ran it through Word It Out's word cloud tool) would probably come in handy if you needed to put a small child to sleep, given Facebook repeats itself a distressing amount of times.

Day in, day out officers here wade through an infinite amount of extremely distressing material.

But as distressing as this sounds, a healthy amount of optimism about the future of Tulane football exists these days.

It was apparent for some the experience of not only the child going under anaesthetic but also recovery was distressing; they were shocked at the amount of blood and by the emotional state of their child.

The reviewed studies give ample evidence that youth in several countries are exposed to a considerable amount of potentially traumatic and distressing life events and that the PTSD-like state prevalences are comparable to what is found in adult studies.

Oncology consultations invariably contain large amounts of complex and potentially distressing information, so summarising is especially valuable when discussing a life-threatening disease, complicated management plans and the likely therapeutic benefits.

Most sauces contain a good amount of sugar, which has a distressing tendency to scorch and blacken.

Humphris and King [ 21] compared the prevalence of high dental anxiety across past distressing experiences and found a prevalence of high dental anxiety amounting to 11.2% and past distressing experiences being a significant correlate among UK university students.