It also comes as a bit of light relief after those disturbing photographs.
In a difficult fiscal environment, it has fought to preserve overall aid budgets (though the recent cuts to PEPFAR, the president's emergency plan for AIDS relief, have been disturbing).
Simply interrupting mind-chatter with a reminder to slow down, check in, and take a couple of conscious breaths can provide quick and effective relief from anxious, disturbing, or obsessive thoughts.
Disturbed people and disturbing images.
Still, a reflex dependence on escapism — as if relief from a new and disturbing reality could only be found in kitsch — surely amounts to a misreading of the moment.
Some of the most disturbing testimony is about access to pain relief for people at home, and to medical advice out-of-hours, when carers were confronted with worrying changes in symptoms.
For the purpose of this study, a person was considered to have aches and pains when scoring ≥4 on the CPRS pain item, corresponding to long-standing and disturbing aches or pains, need for pain relief or intensive disabling pains.
Even on video, his shows are enthralling, haunting, sometimes disturbing, the dark mise-en-scène throwing into relief the shimmering beauty of the dresses.
Several studies have reported that acupuncture can generate immediate relief from both the loudness and the disturbing quality of tinnitus, thereby resulting in a significant improvement in the quality of life [ 14, 15].
America's short-lived dalliance with budget surpluses and falling debt was therefore quite disturbing, in this view, and renewed American borrowing quite the relief.
