Sentence examples for less distraught from inspiring English sources

"Because of 'Gatz' I become less distraught when we have a quiet audience during the early performances of some of our other shows," Mr. Collins said.

Admitting that you wanted a husband — much less that you were distraught you didn't have one — seemed like a betrayal of feminism.

An alternative but more attractive approach would be to shift more responsibility back on the physician, who is better equipped to manage medical decision-making than distraught and less knowledgeable patients.

However, Ronnie's failure to attend Danielle's second clinic appointment signified "a step back" for the character, leaving her "hurt and distraught" and less willing to confide the truth in Ronnie than ever.

In their zeal — for American airports are now temples of zealotry — they would not have imagined her three young children, her distraught husband, much less the dislocated life that had put her en route, alone, to an Arizona addiction-treatment clinic.

Weisberg observes that, "The more we are distracted and distraught by devices, the less we are focused on True North".

Testing inmates on the day of incarceration may be less optimal because these individuals are distraught from being arrested and tired from remaining in court or in a holding cell all day.

You sounded distraught over the P.A. system — way less confident than when you asked us to fasten our seatbelts.

Soering, who likes to anticipate everything, tended to grow distraught when my reporting carried me into less known territory.

Less than two weeks after Parkland, David Lockton made a "distraught" phone call to the gun group, according to the NRA's suit against New York officials.

And Ms. Vaughn is a lot more believable in the final scene, when her character is supposed to be distraught and, with her hair mussed and makeup less perfect, actually seems it.