Sentence examples for distressing sight from inspiring English sources
"The site was a distressing sight for us, and the architects who had done the greatest design of their lives," says Phil Horton, CAT's special projects officer.
It's a distressing sight but we'll have to get used to it: most of the world's prominent climate change deniers skewered on their own sword.
But this year, the most distressing sight of all might be the cover of the single by the Black Arts, a collaboration between the members of Black Box Recorder and Eddie Argos of Art Brut.
Drive along the coast road in Cuba that passes the Bay of Pigs in spring or early summer, and you risk a distressing sight: a stretch of road, some 20 miles long, carpeted in a thick coating of crushed crabs.
However, this does spare me the distressing sight of several hundred small birds imprisoned in cages further along the way, as well as an angry run-in with their self-righteous trappers.
The most distressing sight was a young boy howling in pain on the floor of one of the huts; his friends said that he had recently arrived and still had a piece of shrapnel lodged in his skull from the recent fighting.
More than 10,000 fans at Madison Square Garden yesterday witnessed one of the most distressing sights a Knicks fan can see: an inactive Marcus Camby.
Near the end Mr. Doherty sang, "There's fewer more distressing sights than that of an Englishman in a baseball cap".
For me, the most distressing sights on each of my visits are the increasingly numerous high-rise apartment buildings, many as luxurious as those on New York's East Side, most standing empty.
The music industry specialises in distressing sights around this time of year: the 80s nostalgia tours and their attendant flashing antler-clad, Bacardi Breezer-maddened audience; Jools Holland's Hootenanny, rock's own ghastly you-don't-have-to-be-mad-to-work-here office party.
Although the clattering melodies of Horrorshow, Can't Stand Me Now or Time for Heroes (about the May Day riots, with the memorable line: "There are fewer more distressing sights than that/ Of an Englishman in a baseball cap") are classic British pop songs, it's more that the Libertines were just as much about the adventure.
