Word: distressingly
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...Although the event may be different, the emotional impact of a terrorist event or a suicide is the same in the distress they cause in the student population,” she says...
...Tell the collector to cease contact because the calls are causing you distress. Do it first on the phone, then by mail with a return receipt requested to generate a paper trail. At that point, third-party collectors must stop, and most will...
...under-writer, both in style and substance, the anti-Arundhati. Upadhyay employs the kind of simple, sanded-down prose built in American creative-writing workshops, but with a touch of Buddhist detachment. He is equally austere with his typically middle-class characters?though they suffer fine shades of psychological distress, they lack the will to do anything really dramatic...
...conflict between such scenes and Christian works, instead tracing echoes between the despairing gestures of Lucretia and St. Lawrence, who allegedly was roasted to death for his religious beliefs. He even parallels Lucretia's cringing attitude with Christ tormented by Pilate's soldiers. "We begin to feel her distress, her gesture is the same as in [The Martyrdom of] St. Lawrence when there is nowhere else left to go, a final gesture of pleading for escape from your fate." Titian's art transcends violent content and sometimes battered surfaces to seduce the eye with its costly pigments and breathtaking skill...
...following department meeting, professors discussed how best to communicate this concern to the President. “The question was, how should we convey our distress?” recalled one. “ Should we invite him to a meeting, or have our chairman tell the dean who would tell the President? And then there’s that other possibility, but nobody says that. [New] was a little red in the face...