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Example sentences for: distressing

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This is all very distressing.
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 finding is in confirmation with other studies, in which besides acute bleeding and gastrointestinal symptoms, distressing dyspnoea, delirium and agitated anxiety also where found to be the main reasons for sedation in end-of-life care [ 32 ] . The adequate treatment and care of patients of patients with otherwise refractory symptoms certainly is a great challenge in palliative care and improvement in this field is needed urgently.
A benevolent dictatorship would be the best form of government, except for one distressing fact.
The book's cynicism is even more distressing, symptomatic as it is of a larger cynicism that seems to have gripped our public culture.