Sentence examples for troubled figure from inspiring English sources

Why is the Realtor such a troubled figure?

Nor does the pathos this troubled figure should inspire come across potently.

Closer to home, Wilkins (a friend of Crick's) was at loggerheads with his brilliant x-ray crystallographer, the troubled figure of Dr Rosalind Franklin.

A martyr to neurasthenia, this troubled figure is tormented by impossible (even mad) women, overweening parents and, worst of all, a bad conscience.

Mr. de Blasio has portrayed his father as a troubled figure, traumatized by fighting in Japan during World War II, who was consumed by alcoholism and left the family when Mr. de Blasio was young.

The author was a troubled figure at the end of her life, and Castle, published in 1961, has in its two female lead characters what Jackson's biographer Judy Oppenheimer calls the "yin and yang of Shirley's own inner self" – "one, an explorer, a challenger, the other a contented, domestic homebody".

Deeply troubled figures, Sexton, Plath, and Berryman all took their own lives.

I had trouble figuring Jeanette out.

"Even doctors can have trouble figuring that out," he said.

At first some Republicans had trouble figuring this out.

But they had trouble figuring out what they had found.