Word: distraughtly
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...production does have a few polished performances. Susannah Frith as Lucrezia is convincingly distraught over the moral dilemma in which her husband places her. Her conversion after her seduction is believable, but not overdone. Todd Lochner, the crooked friar who joins in the play's dirty deeds, puts on a deliciously wicked grin as he consorts with Ligurio and Callimaco "in the name...
...Hampden County distraught officials decided in 1988 to adopt emergency release practices. Jailers like Michael Ashe were not enthusiastic. Criminals' walking free so early, Ashe believed, undermined prison management. "This is not the Vienna Choir Boys," he often complained to judges. Highly regarded for his frank and even manner, Ashe is a former social worker who has instituted reforms such as drug programs and data reporting at Hampden. Inside the prison, early release was mockingly referred to as "unearned good time," as opposed to the traditional time off earned for good behavior. Street criminals figured that the odds had shifted...
Whatever transpired, by New Year's Day Matthew reportedly become distraught and worn down. At Reardon's pub in Revere after a concert in Boston, Matthew was so depressed that a friend thought he was considering suicide. "I've got to do it, got to get it over with. I'm destroying myself," a friend recalled him saying. Matthew explained he wasn't talking about killing himself. "You don't understand. That's not what I mean. When it happens, you'll all know. The whole world will know...
...with the kidnaping and later killing of Charles Lindbergh's infant son. Lindbergh was already a bona fide hero, so the media concentrated on canonizing his family: the faithful and pregnant wife; the child who was "a golden-haired replica of his famous father"; Lindbergh's "visibly distraught" mother, who, despite her suffering, persisted in teaching chemistry at a high school in Detroit...
...conversations like these can get frustrating. The pressure caused one distraught young man in my English class to exclaim, "Why do you people insist on talking about housing all of the time? It's only December for God's sake. We can't do anything about it for another couple of months. We can't do anything about it then either. All of you should just calm down and think about something that we can actually have an effect on--like nuclear disarmament or Third World human rights violations. Read a book if you don't like activism. Play Nintendo...