Sentence examples for distressing narrative from inspiring English sources

It's a dangerous and distressing narrative, and an inaccurate one," Khan, who lives with her husband and children in Rockville, MD, explains.

Kakutani asks: "How did a distressing narrative filled with characters spouting hate speech... mutate into a redemptive novel associated with the civil rights movement, hailed, in the words of the former civil rights activist and congressman Andrew Young, for giving us 'a sense of emerging humanism and decency'"?

"Rikers High" is a distressing tale.

Clinicians aim to do no harm but some treatments are both required and distressing; the narratives of patients being treated for burn injuries would attest to this.

The scale has been demonstrated to predict the development of analogue PTSD symptoms and disorganized narratives following exposure to a distressing videotape (Halligan, Clark and Ehlers, 2002), and to prospectively predict PTSD symptoms in trauma survivors (Halligan et al., 2003; Rosario, Ehlers, Williams and Glucksman, in preparation).

Depressed patients had experienced a range of severe negative life events including some meeting PTSD Criterion A. All participants visited the lab approximately a week prior to the scan and wrote a narrative account of their traumatic or most distressing event, starting from just before they knew something was wrong until the point where the event had resolved.

Coughlin ended up a historic relic of a distressing period and a sideshow in the American story, not a main character in the narrative.

However, such overgenerality in the narrative domain may be attributable to processes for keeping specific distressing images at bay (37).

There's something about being accustomed to a narrative that can be reassuring, even if the narrative itself is dark, distressing or difficult.

And a distressing solipsism..

It was distressing.