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"distressing picture" is a correct and usable phrase in written English.
You can use it to describe an image or scene that causes distress, worry, or anguish. Example: The newspaper article was accompanied by a distressing picture of a child in tears.
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But other agencies paint a more distressing picture.
The report paints a distressing picture of the affordable housing market in the state.
DEREK THOMPSON calls this "the scariest employment graph I've seen this year":That is a pretty distressing picture.
The news in the final report of the panel that investigated the accident of the space shuttle Columbia was not about what happened, but in the distressing picture it paints about what comes next.
The web story featured as its main image the picture of a solemn Turkish policeman gently carrying away Aylan's body, while the arguably more vividly distressing picture of his lifeless body face down on the sand was used as a secondary image embedded beneath the warning to readers.
The review, which took evidence from patients and health staff as well as reviewing literature, said a "deeply distressing" picture had emerged.
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You will, like me, have been appalled by the deeply distressing pictures of children drowned, and heard the stories of people suffocated to death in smugglers' lorries.
The prime minister knows he and the home secretary, Theresa May, will be pressured over the migration issue when parliament returns next week, but some senior Tory backbenchers said they expected Cameron to shift his ground after distressing pictures of a drowned child, who had been found washed up on a beach in Turkey, went viral.
Nevertheless, taking anybody at all is a bit of a U-turn since just last week, when the Prime Minister said Britain still shouldn't take any more refugees, despite the distressing pictures of a drowned Syrian child, Alan Krudi, going viral.
Nevertheless, taking anybody at all is a bit of a U-turn since just last week, when the Prime Minister said Britain still shouldn't take any more refugees, despite the distressing pictures of a drowned Syrian child, Aylan Krudi, going viral.
In the LT booklets, less distressing pictures were shown.
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Since I tried Ludwig back in 2017, I have been constantly using it in both editing and translation. Ever since, I suggest it to my translators at ProSciEditing.

Justyna Jupowicz-Kozak
CEO of Professional Science Editing for Scientists @ prosciediting.com