Sentence examples for distressing spectacle from inspiring English sources
We are instead facing the distressing spectacle of history's richest and most powerful nation rendered the victim of an elusive foe impervious to the military might we have spent decades building.
Or one can move, quickly, away from the distressing spectacle of Houghton specifically and look at some issues surrounding this, namely, the ultimately dead-end nature of a career based on self-revelation, and whether this is any different to the culture of self-revelation encouraged by social media.
Drawing as much from the Three Stooges as from classic horror films, it was economical, unrelenting and infused with a kind of manic ingenuity — particularly in the swooping evil-spirit P.O.V. shots that would become a Raimi trademark, and the distressing spectacle of a young woman being molested by a tree.
The spectacle will be distressing, but it will be over quickly.
I am obliged to monitor the race, but it is a painful, distressing business that leaves me and my colleagues feeling bewildered and angry that such a sick spectacle can pass itself off as sport.
IF THE spectacle of a middle-aged white woman dancing around an orphanage in Malawi was distressing for many Britons, the subsequent news that Madonna, a pop singer, was adopting a motherless one-year-old from the country was not much better.
And a distressing solipsism..
He found competition distressing.
A distressing development.
