Sentence examples for distressing portrait from inspiring English sources

A new report based on previously unreleased data from the Department of Veterans Affairs paints a distressing portrait of an agency buried helplessly in paperwork — with a claims backlog that has gotten far worse in the past four years.

Freud's most distressing portraits are those of his mother getting older and older - and finally, shockingly, his drawing of her dead.

Last year, J. D. Vance's "Hillbilly Elegy" and Arlie Russell Hochschild's "Strangers in Their Own Land" painted distressing portraits of fallen Rust Belt towns in Ohio, Kentucky, and Louisiana.

This portrait of an ugly marriage as it appears to an adolescent is a harrowing, deeply distressing and memorable, if not exactly enjoyable, comedy.

As a portrait of an ugly marriage as it appears to an adolescent, "Joe and Betty" is a harrowing, deeply distressing and memorable, if not exactly enjoyable, comedy.

And a distressing solipsism..

It can be distressing.

It was distressing.

He found competition distressing.

A distressing development.

That's very distressing.