Sentence examples for distressful from high-quality English sources.

• In addition, augmenting desires tends to intensify rather than reduce the mental agitation (a distressful state of mind) that Epicurean philosophy sought to eliminate.

• “The tampering of pandemic data by the Ministry of Health is, to say the least, distressful,” said Denise Garrett, a Brazilian American epidemiologist who worked at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention for more than two decades.

• Now Joey, his latest spaced-out hunk of mother love, siege-survivor, bystander at terrorist atrocities, graduate of Mountjoy Jail and erstwhile community film-maker, offers a weepingly explosive take on that most distressful border between two unstable political realities.

• Among Freud’s other contributions were the notion of infantile sexuality and the description of the elaborate ego defense mechanisms with which people defend themselves against feelings and desires they find distressful or that conflict with their accepted pictures of themselves.

• “The idea of letting, after we worked so incredibly hard to make sure that our department was diverse, that reflects the community that we serve, to just turn that all on a dime and hack it off without having a plan in place to move forward, it’s highly distressful to me,” she said during a news conference last week.