Sentence examples for know how distressing from inspiring English sources
Having spent several nights in hospital with my mum, because there was nowhere else to go, I know how distressing it was for her.
"Now I know how distressing it is to be victimised in this way, I intend to fight to ensure that others on the receiving end of false allegations are properly protected".
And as Virginia Woolf sniffed of James Joyce's Ulysses: "an illiterate, underbred book it seems to me: the book of a self-taught working man, and we all know how distressing they are, how egotistic, insistent, raw, striking, and ultimately nauseating".
This is how it went: "Hey, we've got a great idea for something new and different (a colourful patterned outdoor plant pot in our case) so let's go and get it made!" If I had known how distressing, expensive and difficult this path is, I might have been better prepared.
Like all unpleasant dreams, it might reflect an experience from the day before (a visiting aunt's too-tight hug, the pressure of a seatbelt) but it may also reflect a psychologically distressing situation (such as a relationship at school that the child does not know how to navigate, leading them to feel metaphorically trapped).
All that I've tried to do for over 30 years is to be the best writer that I know how to be... It's as if people don't see that in some way, and that's distressing".
Know how obsessions work.
