Sentence examples for sheer distress from inspiring English sources

My first reaction was one of sheer distress, and then on second thought I was quite intrigued".

Speculation over the reasons for North Korea's campaign ranges from sheer distress -- because of repeated famines and a collapsing economy -- to a push from the country's Chinese benefactors, who are eager to remove North Korea and its weapons programs from Washington's list of justifications for developing missile shields.

Con! shouts this film, con! con! con!, flapping its arms in distress at sheer impoverishment of intellect detectable in so many people, and the casual, unthinking insult this represents to the rest of us.

But for most people in the Bedfordshire town, the group's tiny size is in inverse proportion to the sheer scale of annoyance and distress they cause.

Distressed at the sheer scale of the demands from Brussels, the leader of Tsipras's coalition partner, the populist Independent Greeks, said he could not support a key element of the proposals that he described as "barbaric".

It was either from fear, pain mixed with the distress, or just the sheer oppression of the isolation.

Anindita Majumdar, who is researching surrogacy for her doctorate, says she is personally distressed by how easily the "sheer horror" of it all is being swept away by the money paid out to the surrogates.

But other nurses leave clinical practice citing an unfriendly workplace, emotional distress related to patient care, and sheer exhaustion.

Even if claims for distress in this case are modest, the sheer volume of data breached and individuals affected in this attack could have a critical impact on the company.

Distress at the loss was amplified by the sheer incredulity of facing a second air disaster in five months.

News of the Malaysia Airlines crash in Ukraine has been greeted with not just horror but disbelief in Malaysia, where distress at the loss was amplified by the sheer incredulity of facing a second air disaster in five months.