Sentence examples for distressingly clear from inspiring English sources

Watching Al Jazeera makes all of this distressingly clear.

Overkill is one way to describe a lot of the behaviors dissected in "Surviving Progress," as its some two dozen talking-head interviews make distressingly clear.

But by the start of 1981, it was becoming distressingly clear that it was going to take more than one chord and the truth to stop the Tories.

E-mail messages written by analysts at Merrill Lynch and Credit Suisse First Boston and released by regulators have made it distressingly clear how much influence investment bankers exerted over the analysts at their firms in recent years and that this influence translated into advice to clients that was contrary to what the analysts themselves believed.

It is far too simple to conclude that executive compensation plans can serve as a road map to where corporate cheating might go on, but it is becoming distressingly clear that the pay-for-performance philosophy that was supposed to align executives' interests with shareholders' has been badly distorted.

The parallels to the former Yugoslavia and the conflict between Israel and the Palestinians are distressingly clear: The Kurds want to undo a grave historical injustice, the Arabs want to hold on to the only homes they've known for decades.

That evening, after too many days of distressingly sunny skies and clear blue water, the Dranitsyn finally entered the Arctic ice in earnest as we cruised south through Peel Sound between Prince of Wales and Somerset Islands.

For such a hot topic, the available data are, as a report from the Council on Foreign Relations puts it, "distressingly sparse".The numbers are clearer on the input side.

I found it to be the most meditative experience of my life -- all deep breathing and silent -- and a thrill to move through clear and warm, if distressingly polluted, water in that way while getting to know that magical marine world.

Thanks to Obama, Russia threatens Europe North Koreaa is misbehaving; China is flexing its military muscles; ISIS is on the march; Iran has a clear path to acquiring nuclear weapons; and perhaps most distressingly of all, Benjamin Netanyahu, the prime minister of Israel, is unhappy with U.S. policy.

This sounds distressingly familiar.