Sentence examples for was highly distressing from inspiring English sources

The specter of closing up shop was "highly distressing" to the staff, said Stanley Morris, who runs Restaurant TZ, the food part of the operation.

To see the sheer misery and nauseated dread on the faces of the living soldiers was highly distressing and, just for a moment, because the cameraman had been there, I was granted a tiny glimpse of the reality of what these young men, these boys, were going through.

Obviously, this was highly distressing to myself, my wife, and other Twitter employees who were attacked.

"I didn't really talk to people…so to me that was normal and I didn't I suppose realise that feeling unhappy wasn't necessarily a normal way of life" (Female 15) The recognition that participants were experiencing an abnormal change in functioning was highly distressing.

These periods of enforced cessation were highly distressing, and long periods without medication led to severe emotional distress and functional impairment in some.

This can be highly distressing, particularly if they weren't drinking coffee at the time.

"Zipper injuries are highly distressing to patients and are often difficult to manage," they add.

Although praiseworthy as a matter of personal philanthropy, the donation by the mayor and the others, whose names were not disclosed, is highly distressing as a matter of public policy.

Her lawyers said: "As we are sure that you will readily understand, being subject to a police investigation is highly distressing for any person, but especially so for a teenager, particularly one who has been recently subject to such adverse media coverage.

Rowland says: 'To find your loved one's remains replaced by a stranger's is highly distressing.' Excluding the funeral, an example cost of repatriating the mortal remains back to, say, the United Kingdom from Australia is approximately $13,000 to $17,000, or from Spain, around $4,700 to $6,500.

"The doctor is able to recognize he's being stressed, and it prevents him from invoking the survival defense mechanisms of fight ('Let's do another course of chemotherapy'), flight ('There's nothing more I can do for you — I'll go get the chaplain') and freeze (the doctor goes blank and does nothing)." Such reactions can be highly distressing to a dying patient.