distressingly

How To Use distressingly In A Sentence

• As might be expected under such circumstances, the literature on this deliberately mysterious country tends to be polarized and politicized, with the ratio of opinion to fact often distressingly high.
• Distressingly these encouraged narrow-minded ideas based upon sexual objectivism are just as prevalent in animation…
• You could do things that are less unfair, but they wind up seeming distressingly radical to other people. Matthew Yglesias » Jared Bernstein Explains the Connection Between Stimulus and Banking Rescue
• Her regular newsletters to her team of escorts -- which are distressingly disrespectful, calling them "bimbos" and "damned fools" -- repeatedly exhorted the women to destroy any notes about the appointments, and to prevent clients from taking cell-phone pictures and videos during the session. A Meticulous Data Trail May Have Saved 'D.C. Madam'
• The US might get overflooded with distressingly ugly looking people like Shakira, Salma Hayek, or the horror! Think Progress » Buchanan: Mexico Conspiring To ‘Re-Annex’ Seven Southwest States
• I enticed him to a field where I knew it was possible to secure an occasional oxlip, but he only looked pale, shook his head distressingly, and said, I don't think nothin 'of Mary's Meadow; and Letters From a Little Garden
• This was the most distressingly unpleasant and humiliating experience of my life that didn't involve medical staff.
• Only Mulligan, so charming as the precocious teen in An Education, is distressingly wan and weak as the token saint; we'll wait for further films to see which film was the correct clue to her talents.
• American Adulterer," a compelling, if sometimes distressingly clinical, historical fiction that gives the 35th president's life as an unrepentant "fornicator" a full physical. CourierPostOnline.com - News
• They’re realistic people who are damaged in distressingly recognizable ways, and Small is left to try and escape the generational cycle. From the stack: Stitches