Word: distressingly
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...then, apparently, he changed his mind. Around 7 a.m. on Friday, the Pensacola police caught him planting a row of little crosses on the grounds of the Ladies Clinic and demanded that he remove them; he complied. At 7:30, after receiving a distress call about the shooting, they encountered him walking down a highway away from the clinic. He had more than a dozen shotgun shells strapped to his leg, ankle and pocket. He refused to tell them where the gun was, police said. (They found one on the clinic lawn.) But he did say, "I know one thing...
...simply, extremes in classical music are no longer in vogue. The casual classical music public is no longer fascinated with the blatant neuroticism and psychic distress found in Mahler, for example, but seeks relatively non-offensive music. The unsubtle may call it chewing gum for the mind, but both Gorecki's symphony and Deutsche Grammophon's recent effort contain very real musical gems...
Sossman ruled that the University did not violate Massachusetts General Law Chapter 151b by not launching an investigation of Battenfield's complaint of sexual harassment. She also found no negligent infliction of emotional distress on Ostrowski's part...
...jury furthermore determined that Ostrowski neither" intend[ed] to inflict emotional distress on" Battenfield nor "kn[e]w or should have known that emotional distress was the likely result of his conduct...
...calm bravery. At one point he paused, knee-high in the stream of his eloquence, to ask if he might take a sip of liquid morphine to ease his pain. Bragg wondered if they should stop; Potter replied, "It's better to go on." As another poet of profound distress, Samuel Beckett, wrote...