Word: distressingly
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 2000-2009
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Darien, Conn., fund raiser was in her mid-50s, her hair had become thin and wispy. "I didn't want to go swimming," recalls Cox. "I didn't want to exercise because when I did and my hair got wet, it made the receding spots particularly apparent." Despite her distress, Cox never uttered a word. "I felt kind of silly obsessing about it, but it was increasingly important to me." Finally she broached the topic with her husband. "He said, 'You look fine. No problem,'" she says. But that didn't stop her from worrying...
...national decline into the No. 1 topic among the commentariat. Baverez says the shocking results of the first round of presidential elections in April 2002 - when French voters put far-right National Front leader Jean-Marie Le Pen into a runoff with Chirac - amounted to "a national cry of distress." The massive mandate for Chirac in the second round, bolstered by parliamentary elections in June 2002 that gave conservatives a 68% majority in the National Assembly, handed Raffarin "an extraordinary possibility to make enormous changes," Baverez argues. But he thinks that opportunity has been wasted out of political cowardice. This...
...over Rev. Jerry Falwell, a social conservative who sued Hustler for publishing a cartoon suggesting that he had sex with his mother in an outhouse. The Court found in Flynt’s favor, establishing a precedent protecting obvious satire of a public figure even if it causes emotional distress. Eight years later, Flynt was immortalized by Woody Harrelson in the sympathetic Roman Polanski film, The People vs. Larry Flynt...
...urge you to listen to their distress after years of trying to do better,” said Laura B. Roberts ’74, a Cambridge resident who does not live in Riverside but came to support the Carlson petition...
...hottest talents in the business. In Pirates he plays Will Turner, who, with his olive skin and wispy goatee, must be the best-looking swordsmith in the West Indies. Fueled by love, Turner sets out with Captain Jack Sparrow (Johnny Depp) to rescue damsel-in-corseted-distress Elizabeth Swann (Keira Knightley) from dastardly pirate Captain Barbossa (Geoffrey Rush). When you watch Bloom parrying onscreen, you see shades of pirate-movie icon Errol Flynn - a natural. But Bloom was actually the last lead to be cast. "We really needed somebody who could hold his own as the love interest-Errol Flynn...