Sentence examples for distressing he from inspiring English sources
I find it really distressing," he says.
'It's very distressing,' he said.
"Very distressing, very distressing," he replied, and his mood seemed to darken again.
Passing through "all those gates" at Green Haven was distressing, he said.
"The mere fact of putting words on paper may be very distressing," he said.
"Obviously, the sight of a mass murderer getting a hero's welcome in Tripoli is deeply upsetting, deeply distressing," he added.
How does he keep calm in distressing situations, he's asked by a cub reporter.
"It was quite a distressing time," he recalls.
It was "a hugely distressing time", he says, at pains to acknowledge the devastating impact on many people's careers.
I just got a name wrong.'" The distressing thing, he said, was as the accusation was hurled, his history of cordial, even friendly association with his accuser seemed to count for nothing.
In less skilled hands this kind of moral and ethical instruction could feel condescending, but Greitens never gives in to the temptation to treat his young readers as incapable of confronting the realities of the dangerous and distressing places he's been or the challenges people face there.
