Word: distressingly
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...song the unvoiced terror of my life. The idea of the veil, as the way a man sees his life, is frightening and horrible. It cries out and angers you. Imagine such a limitation, such a prison for oneself or one's children. It was an indication of the distress under which this Black man lived, and many other Black men and women as well. The veil was both an image and an accurate description of the condition of Black life in America, a cover of the rage and desperation of Black people. It was then the tearing of this...
...reduce Tootsie And Charles Durning as Julie's father who falls in love with Dorothy gives an equally effective performance although his emotions are much more low key and subtle. His courtship of Dorothy is believable as we see his affections for her develop. And we empathize with his distress at finding out that Dorothy is only a man in disguise...
...Sophisticated as they may be, even the French like to see movies made at home, starring actors they can identify with. "You simply can't have a strong filmgoing climate unless you have a healthy domestic film product," says Silvera. "Britain and Italy have learned that to their distress." Though Americans are familiar with titles like The Last Metro and La Cage aux Folles, most French movies, which lean toward police thrillers, comedies and love stories, never cross the Atlantic, since distributors are convinced that they would not find an audience...
...more immediate steps to calm jittery financial markets. In particular, the ministers agreed that the major industrial nations should greatly increase their contributions to the International Monetary Fund, which makes loans to countries having balance of payments difficulties. Until more fundamental solutions can be found for the mounting debt distress of developing nations, increased IMF lending will apparently have to serve as a stopgap...
Acting at a time of economic distress and fiscal difficulty, the legislature could hardly have ignored the financial losses which may result from divestiture. Indeed, the state treasurer quietly opposed the bill because he considered the potential losses--which he predicted could exceed $12 million--unjustified. But the legislators rightly placed a greater value on the withdrawal of support from South Africa's system of racial oppression that will be accomplished by the bill. Unfortunately the University, blessed with rare economic security, finds itself unable to take a similarly courageous moral stand...