Sentence examples for distressing success from inspiring English sources

The Glare, the title track, is McAlmont's touching response to the sad, distressing success story of Susan Boyle, and is a song full of life and soul that apart from anything else reminds you how little life and soul there actually is in the wasted music of Susan Boyle, even as the story itself is so curious and disconcerting.

Ominously, Mr. Huelskamp likened the right-wing's plans to continue fighting same-sex marriage to its fight against legal abortions after Roe v. Wade — a slow and steady campaign that has continued for 40 years and has had a distressing amount of success.

I'll admit, having very little money in the bank can be distressing and distracting, but success means so much more to me than my finances.

That the novel's vision of the literary life was ultimately sentimental only compounded the charm, though some found its commercial success disorienting, even distressing.

And a distressing solipsism..

It was distressing.

He found competition distressing.

A distressing development.

It can be distressing.

That's very distressing.

"It's distressing".