Sentence examples for distressingly slow from inspiring English sources
Yet, progress is distressingly slow.
Despite the significant progress achieved so far, genetic improvement of mulberry yield potential through conventional breeding has been distressingly slow, mainly because of the perennial growth habit and complex inheritance pattern.
There are heroes of mine whose inevitable death I've long dreaded, because they seemed so distressingly mortal: ageing, greying, slowing down (as one recurring thought goes, "What will I do when Stephen Sondheim dies?").
The world is slowing, slowing, slowing.
The list of what needs to be fixed in Haiti is distressingly long, and progress has been frustratingly slow.
None, however, linger like "D Is for Dogfight," a mesmeric, slow-motion ballet of brutality so distressingly realistic that you may never be able to name a dog Buddy again.
This sounds distressingly familiar.
It sounds distressingly contemporary.
A distressingly common mistake.
