Sentence examples for distressingly short from inspiring English sources

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

Or rather, it shows that we have a distressingly short attention span, and that we allow ourselves to accept outrages so long as they're familiar.

Mr. Shea finds the weekend distressingly short for catching up on 1,001 chores and spending time with his wife, Elizabeth, who works for a pharmaceutical company,and their 9-month-old baby, Caroline, not to mention finding a moment here or there for his own pastimes.

The nadir may be The Spy Next Door, a kid's film that's distressingly short on both wit and action.

But we still know distressingly little about the programs Snowden sought to expose.

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

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".

(His short blond 'fro and somewhat distressingly happy-vacant stare may induce flashbacks to William Katt and that classic of surfer movies, "Big Wednesday").

By the time I was old enough to try it, Torquemada had been replaced by Ximenes; and I have to confess that when Jonathan Crowther took over in 1972, under the name "Azed", it took me a distressingly long time to realise that the "A" was not short, as in "as", and that Azed was not an inquisitor like his two predecessors – possibly of Moorish descent.

In short, we ask them and require them to grovel, and distressingly often we get miffed when they won't play ball.

First, a distressingly large portion of activity in the financial world is little more than gambling.