Sentence examples for distressing tale from inspiring English sources

"Rikers High" is a distressing tale.

AK, London This is a distressing tale of incompetence and breathtaking selfishness on the part of your seller, their solicitor and, to a degree, your own solicitor.

In his capable hands, their distressing tale of marital woe becomes a fascinating psychological study of two people with complicated family pasts, trying to forge identities of their own — two people with utterly different views and experiences of history.

"Red White & Blue," the latest feature from the British director Simon Rumley, builds a triptych of character studies into an engrossing — and profoundly distressing — tale of random connection and specific revenge.

I would find excuses to leave the public facing area so that customers and staff members alike wouldn't have to pretend not to see me cry to Tracy Chapman's distressing tale of cyclical poverty and abuse (Merry Christmas everyone!).

HBO, the pay-cable home to blood-sucking 173-year-olds, polygamous Mormons and stressed-out, therapy-seeking C.E.O.'s, is not the usual place for explanations of amyloid plaques, computer-rendered brain-imaging scans or distressing tales of a woman told she can never drive again.

Crowded with incidents, the stories form a broken chain, a fact that preoccupies the narrator: "The material is strange and distressing, and the tale without a moral".

Before describing the book's grisly climax, he warns us that "the material is strange and distressing, and the tale without moral, unless you consider looking and recording with a sympathetic eye as moral enough".

*** Leviathan (15) Andrey Zvyagintsev DVD/Blu-ray (140mins) Kolya, a hothead, is losing his property, which his family built, to a corrupt mayor (and Boris Yeltsin lookalike) in Andrey Zvyagintsev 's distressing, Job-like tale set in a small Russian coastal town.

Of the many distressing elements in the tale of Justin Berry ("Through His Webcam, a Boy Joins a Sordid Online World," front page, Dec. 19), perhaps nothing is more disturbing than the thought of how many parents are naïve when it comes to their children and the Internet.

Participants practiced following the instructions whilst viewing a short training film (an excerpt from 'A Tale of Two Cities'; a mildly distressing documentary about the aftermath of the Nagasaki and Hiroshima bombings) and then viewed the test film.