Sentence examples for so distressing that from inspiring English sources

It was so distressing that the 27-year-old Nepali lost his hair.

The subject is so interesting and so distressing that I wanted to applaud before I saw the performance.

James' injuries, and a brush with cancer, were so distressing that she wondered if she would ride her bike again.

Ellis Cose, a journalist, once wrote that even middle-class blacks suffer constant subtle racial slights, and that these are so distressing that they "are in the end most of what life is".

"Seeing my grandmother in that state was so distressing that my mother eventually stopped taking the grandchildren to visit," Dr. Sachs wrote last week in an editorial in The New England Journal of Medicine.

The pitching has been so bad, and the won-loss record so distressing, that questions have begun to bubble up regarding Manager Terry Francona's job security, even with the success he has had since joining the club in 2004, when he led them to the first of two World Series titles.

What is so soul-destroying and so distressing is that it doesn't seem to matter which party is in control – none of them are interested enough to go on and solve this".

The Scotts do not exhibit any of the self-aggrandizement that made watching some of that coverage so distressing.

"So cruel, so distressing, so appalling that until now nothing more terrible or disgusting has ever been known on this earth," says the German humanist Joseph Grunpeck, who, when he fell victim, bemoaned how "the wound on my priapic gland became so swollen, that both hands could scarcely encircle it".

Talk to any veteran who's had his or her life on hold for months (or years) while their claim awaits processing, and they'll tell you that it's the waiting and the uncertainty that's so distressing.

It's not so much the absence of sex that's so distressing, but the absence of physical intimacy.