'distressing way' is a valid term in English and can be used in both oral and written language.
It is an adjective that is used to describe something that is very worrying or upsetting. Example sentence: She recounted her experiences in a distressing way that made me feel sympathetic towards her.
"We're distressed that he's in the headlines in such a distressing way, but I'd rather the public judged Johnny on his tremendous ability as an athlete.
"He's got a somewhat distressing way of showing how much he cares," said Michael J. Horvitz, the museum's chairman, who is also a trustee at Case Western.
It's hard to think of a more violent, more desperately sad and distressing way for a person to end their own life.
During the course of the party Haken confides in Wallander about some of what he witnessed as a naval officer in the 1980s, when foreign submarines had a distressing way of showing up in Swedish waters.
And with Mr. Boyer doing the driving in his best dead-pan hypnotic style, while the flames flicker strangely in the gas-jets and the mood music bongs with heavy threats, it is no wonder that Miss Bergman goes to pieces in a most distressing way.
PG Wodehouse, at Dulwich College in 1899, was told "he has the most distorted ideas about wit and humour; he draws over his books and examination papers in the most distressing way and writes foolish rhymes in other people's books", and Helen Fielding, at Wakefield Girls High Schooll, that she "must learn not to use such flowery language".
But they would also find them unrecognizably modern in more distressing ways.
Ever since he died and the political situation has unfolded here in various distressing ways, I really have missed Allen's voice.
Three years ago, in August 2013, Jonathan Trott felt so tormented by cricket that, as a way of avoiding another day of a Test against Australia at The Oval, he thought of some distressing ways to escape.
Yet New York closely mirrors the national epidemic in some distressing ways, including this: About one of every four new H.I.V. diagnoses comes when the patient is found already to have AIDS.
There are those who doubt the anecdotal evidence of what young men and women have been telling researchers over the years: that porn is affecting their sexual relationships in myriad disturbing and distressing ways.
