Sentence examples for distressing phenomena from inspiring English sources

Jennifer Radden's penetrating insights help us to make sense of our reactions to the bewildering and often distressing phenomena of extreme personal change.

Jennifer Radden's penetrating insights help us to make sense of our reactions to the bewildering and often distressing phenomena of extreme to the rapidly growing literature on philosophy and mental health.

Beah's autobiography is almost unique, as far as I can determine — perhaps the first time that a child soldier has been able to give literary voice to one of the most distressing phenomena of the late 20th century: the rise of the pubescent (or even prepubescent) warrior-killer.

The instrument consists of six items measuring inability to undertake normal functions and six items on the appearance of new and distressing phenomena.

The most distressing phenomena occurring when spirits make contact, with freaked-out former guests waking up with an immense pressure on their chest, unable to breathe.

18 The GHQ is a validated, self-administered, 12-items questionnaire focusing on the inability to carry out normal functions and the appearance of new and distressing phenomena.

The Court would profit, I think, from giving less attention to the fact of this distressing phenomenon, and more attention to the cause of it.

I would like to congratulate the young Matthew C. Klein for exposing a distressing phenomenon that we, the parents, are too embarrassed to admit.

But the increasing prominence of human error as a factor in fatal crashes like Air France Flight 447 — and like the 2009 Colgan Air crash near Buffalo, New York, that killed 50 — is a distressing phenomenon that some safety experts say regulators are only beginning to address.

A cartoon about false balance illustrates this distressing phenomenon well.

They characterize this distressing phenomenon as 'genocide', averring that such suicides were unheard of prior to the commodification.