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After I finished this worthy and dull book, a distressing thought came to me: Its banality might be the fault neither of the judge nor of the legal profession.
Fatigue/weakness is the most frequent distressing symptom associated with advanced illness and end-of-life care.
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."
But they understand that the media do reflect the nation's psyche--and that is why the events of recent weeks have been so distressing.
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.