Sentence examples for distressing image from inspiring English sources

"However well intentioned their motives may once have been, aid agencies have helped create the single, distressing image of Africa.

It shows the distressing image of Dhu being handcuffed and dragged from her cell less than two hours before her death, because she could no longer stand up.

The cartoon is certainly shocking, using the single most distressing image of the refugee crisis – a dead child – to crack a joke.

One distressing image showed Jihad Misharawi, a Palestinian journalist who works for the BBC in Gaza, cradling the dead body of his 11-month-old son, Omar, at the al-Shifa Hospital in Gaza City on Wednesday night.

But your article's more distressing image was the teacher informing her charges: "You don't really need to know anything more about the Battle of Britain, except that it was an air strike...

Soldiers – many of whom were clueless teenage conscripts who apparently thought they were part of a training exercise – were rounded up, beaten, stripped and, according to some reports, lynched (one particularly distressing image of a beheaded soldier emerged on Saturday morning on social media).

Warning: it contains distressing images.

Basically, they reflect back to us distressing images of our everyday reality.

Of all the distressing images from this week's devastating earthquake in central Italy, one stood out.

The BBC warned its audience that the report contained distressing images.

He wouldn't allow a TV in the house, because "there were too many distressing images", said Bond.