Sentence examples for it distressing to from inspiring English sources

Is it distressing to see Latin America become a news backwater, now that we're focused on South Asia and the Middle East?

As a Japanese citizen, I find it distressing to see that the horrors of World War II have already begun to escape the memory of the Japanese people.

Morgan said it was recognised that some transgender people found it distressing to be asked to recount sometimes traumatic details of past surgery and felt they were treated as if they had a mental illness.

Mr. Brown, an Air Force veteran who lives in Southampton and recently began working at the pantry, said he found it distressing to turn people away for lack of food.

As a rising senior in the midst of the notorious college process, I found it distressing to read that a growing number of teenagers are spending their summers participating in elaborate activities for the sole purpose of enhancing their college applications.

"I find it distressing to know that despite the fact that Australia invests about half a billion dollars every year into Papua New Guinea, it will not meet one of its millennium development goals— in fact, it is going backwards," she said.

As Jane suggests, in the above extract, it is distressing to witness the distress of your children.

Just as it is distressing to contemplate the hungry, it is cheering to contemplate others becoming replete.

And it is distressing to listen to people who call it "a diaper on the head," or who view it as a marker of terrorism, a flag separating "us" from "them".

It is distressing to look at today – because it is an image for our time.

Dagley says it is distressing to see the destruction, and it prevents the forest's 4.5 million annual visitors enjoying the spectacular variety of fungi.