Sentence examples for distressing reading from inspiring English sources

It was sometimes distressing reading.

In the Commons today, Bob Ainsworth, the defence secretary, said he was grateful to Haddon-Cave for providing what he called a "rigorous and powerful report" which would be "very distressing reading for many, particularly for those families who lost loved ones three years ago".

It makes it a difficult, often distressing read.

With a clever premise, well-plotted and told in spare, functional prose, She's Never Coming Back is certainly an uncomfortable, even distressing, read – but not for the right reasons.

They are distressing to read about and they are very serious.

It was extremely distressing to read "Partying Like It's 1999" (Oct.

If your choice is b), I must instruct you to leave this column immediately and find something less distressing to read.

It must be some puritan streak in me, but I find the detailed discussion of tastes and sensations nauseating and very distressing to read.

With polls showing overwhelming public support for aggressive United States military action, it's been distressing to read many of the recent letters on this page.

It's distressing to read, the way happiness generates sadness and terror in Gray's psyche, because his work could be the source of so much pleasure to his audiences.

How distressing to read about the Weston hunter who made a $3,605 bid to kill a moose in Vermont ("On the Auction Block, Permits for Moose Hunting," Aug. 21).