Sentence examples for distressing turn from inspiring English sources

Lawn only broke off from the buildup to the quarter-final when his wife's condition took a distressing turn for the worse.

So when he began the arduous task of his transition before the wrangling in Florida had gotten under way, it was a distressing turn of events.

Mr. Brown, an Air Force veteran who lives in Southampton and recently began working at the pantry, said he found it distressing to turn people away for lack of food.

A distressing number have died".

Distraction: Keep your thoughts from turning to distressing ideas by filling your life with distractions.

He said attitudes towards refugees had reached a turning point following distressing images of young children trying to escape the war being washed up on beaches in Europe.

That documentary was by turns touching, funny, distressing and uplifting, and if anything The Interrupters concocts a still more potent combination of conflicting emotions.

It has been very traumatic, and the book ban just made a very distressing situation far worse, it turned it into collective misery.

"I was starting to recover from some really distressing times, but then I turned 17 and social services started arranging for me to live alone.

I remember my teacher asking me a question and just staring at her blankly with my mouth open, before letting out the kind of noise I've only ever heard in a TV show where Gordon Ramsey slaughtered some pigs and they emitted this incredibly distressing final squeal before being turned into bacon or pork chops, or whatever.

Transitions like this — by turns shocking and calming, distressing and heartening, awe-inspiring and grief-inducing — compose the memorial museum.