Word: distressfully
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...until this year’s controversies reminded us of its importance, shopping was largely taken for granted here. I myself never thought about it much as a student or a faculty member until a graduate student advisee from Senegal came to my office some years ago in great distress after his first Harvard class, which was my first lecture of the year. In the French system in which he had been educated it would have been almost a capital crime for any student to do what he had witnessed dozens doing in my class. “Welcome...
...increasingly close epistolary friendship with Ray's gay, witty younger brother Rex, from whom he is estranged. This could all be the stuff of a fairly ordinary midlife crisis, albeit in an exotic setting, except for two things. One, the tender, funny eloquence with which Rush sketches Ray's distress. And two, the fact that Ray is actually a secret agent...
Since news of the lootings came out last week, scholars at Harvard, along with their colleagues throughout the United States and the world, say they’ve experienced distress, despair and anger...
...anti-war activist Katherine Lo hung an American flag upside-down from her window, she must have known that her actions would be somewhat incendiary. The U.S. flag code states that Old Glory is never to be displayed down “except as a signal of dire distress in instances of extreme danger to life or property...
...subjected undergraduates to military style interrogation, replete with harsh blinding lights and the psychological strong-arm tactics. Human subjects including Kaczynski were mentally battered as Murray tested the limits of “human character.” Soon Kaczynski “clearly began to experience emotional distress [and] to develop his anti-technology views” and “started having fantasies about taking revenge against a society that he increasingly viewed as an evil force obsessed with imposing conformism through psychological controls...