Sentence examples for distressing stuff from inspiring English sources

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For anyone at work – or for those of you who don't like watching distressing stuff – the video shows Ukrainian police using humiliation tactics against the protesters, stripping a man in the freezing cold and making him pose for the cameras, before kicking him in the leg.

Then we hung out with Joshua Blahyi – who used to be called General Butt Naked – who told us how he used to eat the hearts of innocent boys before battle and a load of other horrifyingly distressing stuff that's better watched than read.  .

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The stuff is distressing to the eye; a weird, scrunched up mass of egg which, even when patted dry with kitchen paper and seasoned with copious amounts of melted butter and sea salt, is barely recognisable as the same foodstuff as I've been cooking all week.

It's shameful stuff, but more distressing is that it doesn't come across as all that shocking.

Not only is this stuff proving to be distressing to thousands of children.

It's stomach-churning stuff, all the more distressing for the unavailability of any storytelling convention.

More distressing is the ride over rough stuff: the Elantra feels choppy, loud and unsettled compared with many of its rivals, especially the creamy-feeling Civic and Cruze.

It didn't sound like the boy was doing anything beyond excluding my son or teasing him -- distressing in a mother's eyes, but stuff that, unfortunately, happens to everyone.

" So there' s [the difficulty in] distinguishing between what' s normal and what' s not and what' s distressing and harmful and what' s just adolescent stuff" (Psychiatrist).

"I sought to obliquely reframe the stuff we subject ourselves to (whether beautiful, distressing, mundane, frivolous or eroticized) and algorithmically cut them into a new context".

What Mr Gill wrote in his column may be very mild stuff in comparison to what was dished out to Alexander Pope, but it was evidently distressing to Ms Balding all the same.

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