| More distressingly the chemotherapy made her give off a particularly unpleasant odour. |
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| 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. |
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| This was the most distressingly unpleasant and humiliating experience of my life that didn't involve medical staff. |
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| Political conventions have become distressingly routine and disturbingly predictable. |
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| Much of the event feels like a horrific life-changing event coming into focus at a distressingly torporific pace. |
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| And I ultimately wound up changing nearly every font to different flavors of Arial, which yields a distressingly mundane appearance. |
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| Screens froze, buttons took three presses to function and, most distressingly, half my address book made itself invisible. |
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| It is distressingly easy to become disillusioned and cynical while working on a development aid project. |
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| Perhaps most distressingly of all, there has been little progress in assisting rape survivors, let alone convicting those responsible. |
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| Despite existing sanctions, the rate and extent of democratic reforms in the country is exceedingly low and distressingly limited. |
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| Yet, even by these low standards, Mr Condit comes across as distressingly selfish. |
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| In recent years Iraq has suffered from a distressingly high number of hostage-takings. |
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| The number of drop-outs in primary schools in Bangladesh is distressingly high. |
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| The structural bases of international interaction are distressingly similar to their decadesold antecedents. |
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| The inner battle for freedom from sin and purity is distressingly evident in the diaries of the extremely pious king. |
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| Such predictability proves distressingly uninvolving for the viewer. |
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| Maya's story is all too common in South Asia, where levels of child labour remain distressingly high, especially for girls. |
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| The ultimate result would be a more dangerous Brooklyn, most distressingly for kids such as Sarah and Mary. |
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| In a city as large as New York, flawed witnesses are distressingly familiar. |
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| Hackles rising straight from his neck, his eyes bugged distressingly as he tracked Samantha's measured pace from the back of the chamber to the chair beside the bench. |
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| People assume there is this incredibly hi-tech cockpit that gets me ready, but my routine is distressingly plebian. |
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| The abdomens of those with kwashiorkor, however, distend in a way that is distressingly familiar from televised appeals for famine relief. |
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| It is not, as Pope Benedict rightly argued in yesterday's distressingly bland pastoral letter, about priestly celibacy. |
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| Another month, another sign that the job market remains unchangingly, distressingly stuck. |
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| On that occasion Cook cut a distressingly hollow-eyed figure, constrained by protocol from giving voice to his obvious anger and frustration. |
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| But he has failed to promote a free-market agenda he is distressingly fond of farm subsidies and state intervention. |
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| If a list of North American universities were to be arranged in accordance with the number of volumes in their academic libraries, the best-equipped Canadian universities would be distressingly far down in the roster. |
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| More seriously, the fact that apprentices who move between provinces lose their status appears to be a major cause of the distressingly high proportion who fail to complete their apprenticeships and get certified. |
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| Paul was distressingly clean, but Babbitt reveled in a good sound dirtiness, in not having to shave till his spirit was moved to it. |
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| And so, the 'Human Poverty Index' tells a different story, where last year Canada could manage only a 12th place ranking out of the 17 OECD countries listed, a distressingly consistent pattern since the UNDP's rankings began. |
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| This impression is distressingly true of our national organization. |
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| As you may know, the first steps in an emergency are to provide clean water, shelter, food, rebuild victim's lives, and most distressingly, locate and identify all who perished in the disaster. |
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| The report is distressingly silent on research funding. |
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