Sentence examples for distressingly poor from inspiring English sources

But while the French may have left behind great cuisine, they did not prepare the country well for independence, leaving Madagascar distressingly poor and politically volatile.

"Distressingly, poor people were often the targets of vote buyers," Berry writes.

The American Association of University Professors has claimed that "infringements on academic freedom are distressingly common and that the climate for academic freedom is distressingly poor".

In detailing Lewis' own experiences during her first decade of teaching in New York's public schools, it takes readers inside classrooms where students are sometimes distressingly poor and deeply uncomfortable in their own skin. .

However, there is great variability in SCI models and the way they are done in different laboratories, and the reproducibility of findings with different therapeutic interventions has been distressingly poor.

My dictionary has two principal definitions of "pathetic": evoking pity and distressingly inadequate.

That will mean very hot and very long days, and distressingly short nights.

The film received poor reviews and was described by Bosley Crowther as "a distressingly empty piece;" but, with a profit of $2.5 million, it was one of her biggest box-office successes.

AES' hosing in Kazakhstan is a distressingly familiar sign of the times for U.S. and European corporations trying to do business in poor but resource-rich countries.

This sounds distressingly familiar.

Then: distressingly so.