| Perhaps most distressingly of all, there has been little progress in assisting rape survivors, let alone convicting those responsible. |
| Much of the event feels like a horrific life-changing event coming into focus at a distressingly torporific pace. |
| Political conventions have become distressingly routine and disturbingly predictable. |
| This is a point of view which is all too familiar and one which, to use a distressingly plebeian phrase, gets right up my nose. |
| The ultimate result would be a more dangerous Brooklyn, most distressingly for kids such as Sarah and Mary. |
| It is distressingly easy to become disillusioned and cynical while working on a development aid project. |
