She suggests the distressing possibility that in the Aberdeen incident, where a drill sergeant was sentenced to 25 years in prison for rape, political correctness rose to the level of a human-rights violation.
In Bostrom's view, the most distressing possibility is that the Great Filter is ahead of us — that evolution frequently achieves civilizations like our own, but they perish before reaching their technological maturity.
For those of us who admire the pope, either possibility is distressing, but neither should come as a great surprise.
"Both possibilities were extremely distressing".
"Both possibilities were extremely distressing for the claimant," said counsel.
One suggested, "People who use email need not (do not) worry about the possibility of unwanted or distressing material.
In addition, only interviewers who were comfortable with the survey topic, and the possibility of hearing some distressing and unpleasant details, were selected for undertaking the interviews.
When I saw the piece on Mr. Swanson (and the politicians' names connected to it) I couldn't stop myself from taking to Facebook, posting the following status: "As a human being who had the great fortune of being born gay, I find it terribly distressing that there's even a remote possibility that Cruz, Huckabee or Jindal could be President of my country.
For some patients, the radiologist's receptive attitude and the possibility of a dialogue may have a paradoxically distressing effect.
Thus, our findings suggest the possibility that elevated progesterone levels facilitate responsivity to distressing situations concerning the self i.e. internal emotions, while inhibiting facial affect recognition, thus emotional expressions from others i.e. external emotions.
To be working so hard on something and then suddenly realize the possibility that there's yet another hurdle has been distressing".
