Sentence examples for somewhat distressing from inspiring English sources

"He's got a somewhat distressing way of showing how much he cares," said Michael J. Horvitz, the museum's chairman, who is also a trustee at Case Western.

Ms. Stout, a specialist in corporate governance and moral behavior, said in an interview last week, "I think it's somewhat distressing that so few people seem to be aware of Lowell and Michael Milken's business history".

— Susan Edgerley Los Angeles Magazine: The May issue includes a rich (and somewhat distressing) piece by Lesley Bargar Suter about the burger entrepreneur Adam Fleischman and his supersonically expanding Umami empire.

That's somewhat distressing, given that the sustainability of underlying growth isn't yet clear (to me, at least; Mark Zandi said today that he is convinced that recovery is now self-sustaining).Of course, some might argue that it's about time for stimulus to wind down.

"I understand that the match was an exhibition, and that Federer was there to put on a show, but exhibition or not, it was still somewhat distressing to watch the best tennis player in the world muff points for the sake of making an old er) man feel better," Will Leitch writes in this week's Play Newsletter.

Vilém Tauský, one of his pupils, described his encounters with Janáček as somewhat distressing for someone unused to his personality, and noted that Janáček's characteristically staccato speech rhythms were reproduced in some of his operatic characters.

What their data show is pretty distressing.

For that reason, there's one final way it's worthwhile to consider such deaths: the number of homicides per million people in that age group: This chart looks somewhat different – and distressing.

Having written in my last post about Chinese eagerness to participate in the international system, it was distressing -- not to say somewhat embarrassing - when a friend in China wrote to say he couldn't read the blog because the HuffPost isn't allowed in China, a fact I later confirmed.

"It's very distressing and at the same time it's somewhat understandable," said Kenneth H. Bacon, president of Refugees International.

The latter date is somewhat problematic, as it's the anniversary of John Lennon's murder; that aside, it's distressing to see the group's albums, which were preserved as discrete units by the recent remastering campaign, be dumped wholesale onto a hard drive.