Sentence examples for like distress from inspiring English sources

Her weeping at the vows looked more like distress than sentiment.

This in itself wouldn't have alarmed me – it is, after all, War and Peace – were it not for the preponderance of other bookmarks that I discovered, erupting from the midst of novels everywhere, like distress flares.

He has staged the work with brio: on the stripped-down metal stage, the actors are used to great visual effect, circling one another in beautifully executed costumes (by Kimberly Glennon) that function like distress signals from passing ships.

The play's eight scenes, which range from short to long to short again, are separated by blackouts or by the dimming of lights that pulsate like distress signals from a passing ship — but what is the danger?

Blixseth has been unloading other assets at what look like distress prices.

The Stoics call a passion like distress a fresh opinion that something bad is present (Andronicus, 65B): you may have been excitedly delighted when you first saw you'd won the race, but after a while, when the impression of the victory is no longer fresh, you may calm down.

Secondly, if they become distressed they would like their distress acknowledged and to be treated personally, or cared for.

He's wrapped himself in the lingo of the financial services industry which sport terms like "Distressed Assets," (my piece, Behind Every Distressed Asset is A Distressed Human Being was published in American Banker, March , 2012.

If you like distressed jeans, distress your white jeans too.

Workers chronically exposed to platinum complexes often develop asthma-like respiratory distress and skin reactions called platinosis.

Wells is struggling and needs a medic to look after him so Jojo goes and sits with him, because women like strong guys but they also like dammales in distress.