The term, often used interchangeably with "content warning," is a heads up that readers may encounter distressing content--and in recent years, trigger or content warnings have become controversial.
As time passed, Schumer and Clinton began to encounter a distressing trend -- lawmakers framing the city's plight in terms of areas in their own state hit by natural disasters.
And the encounters, while distressing, appeared to take a surprisingly severe toll: the 51 drivers who went on paid leave after a spitting incident took, on average, 64 days off work — the equivalent of three months with pay.
For example, it ought to be distressing for a parent to encounter a girl who accidentally dropped your baby, even if you know that no one could have held on (1986, 178 79).
They assessed four factors: the amount of time a chimp was in a "positive" mood; whether the chimp found social encounters "enjoyable" or distressing; how well the chimp met its goals (such as social interactions or obtaining food); and finally, how happy the rater would be to actually be the chimp in question.
Vilém Tauský, one of his pupils, described his encounters with Janáček as somewhat distressing for someone unused to his personality, and noted that Janáček's characteristically staccato speech rhythms were reproduced in some of his operatic characters.
Karen Thompson, deputy chief crown prosecutor at CPS East Midlands, called the murders "one of the most distressing and disturbing cases that I have ever encountered".
The powerfully distressing videos the author describes finding there include an encounter between a woman and an ape, the memory of which still sometimes keeps me up at night.
Asnicar said it was among the most serious incidents he had encountered in his career, saying the scene was "very distressing" for officers but they would be "missing nothing as far as conducting this investigation".
