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But just two weeks later, Charlton shared the distressing news that the couple's love life is being ruined by his penchant for antiques hunting on the Web: He's apparently "so caught up" in his Net surfing that he "forgets Jennifer's keeping his bed warm."
It is distressing that in this time of AIDS it could still be said that Kinsey's passionate interest in human sexuality could only be the product of perversion.
This is all very distressing.
In any case, one hardly hears anything else today but these can forms, which have somehow become the fashion: It can happen , We could be wrong . What we are therefore observing is the loss of a valuable distinction, and in fact the slow extinction of the verb may/might , an extinction which in the linguistic world seems to me just as distressing as the loss of the elephant in the zoological world.
The distressing thing for intellectuals of a Marxian bent is the failure of Marx's scenario for the collapse of capitalism (as presented in Volume I of Capital ) to come true.