Word: distressingly
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During the duel, Jane rushes to the field—with her normally pinned-back hair streaming picturesquely in the wind, of course—to tell Simon that her guardian botched up his suicide. Enter the damsel in distress...
Though Dora doesn’t talk to him, she is unspeakably moved by the sound of his voice and then the soft song of a blackbird on the other end of the line. In distress, she leaves Noel and goes to the National Gallery, where a Gainsborough painting excites unfamiliar emotions in her. Suddenly disordered and overwhelmed by the noise and jazz of London, and with the blackbird in her mind, she returns to Imber almost involuntarily. There, she feels, she can address her “real” problems...
...common type of dementia, Alzheimer's Disease, is characterized by the spread of sticky plaques and clumps of tangled fiber that disrupt communication between brain cells. Gradually robbing people of their memory, personality and eventually all cognitive function, it typically kills within 5 to 10 years. Apart from the distress it causes sufferers and their loved ones, Alzheimer's is extremely costly: in Australia it drains an estimated $A3 billion a year from the public purse...
...There’s a lot of fear going around this high school,” said a student member of the School Committee, James Conway, referring to the distress surrounding MCAS scores. “People are really trying their hardest to pass this test and succeed, and they should be commended,” Conway said...
Elaborating on this idea of simultaneity, Palmer said that the book emphasizes “what it means to be alive and well at the same moment as others are in distress, and what we can do to respond to others’ pain...It’s so much about personal engagement and personal choice,” he said...