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Then: distressingly so.
Everyone was charming, distressingly so.
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I've lost an extreme amount of weight over the last year as the result of chronic illnesses and I look distressingly frail, so I'm used to this.
The overall tax bill from the industry might not be so distressingly low.
– is that something ethereal and elusive has become so distressingly concrete.
No production since Anthony Neilson's The Wonderful World of Dissocia has so distressingly captured the inescapable hold of mental illness.
And that is the shock: that our modern assumptions about safety are punctured by a few days of rain, and so distressingly and violently.
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.
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?").
I was particularly mesmerised by a film from 2001 showing bullnecked 12-year-old Sergei, a boy so distressingly full of hatred and contempt that his parents had had to hire a Swat child expert to abseil in and reprogram the young sociopath.
Ten years later, "30 Rock" setves as a reminder of how far we've come when itrendes to depintions of women on TV, and how much farTVer we have to go. .
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