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This mutual orgasm is extremely important, but in distressingly many cases the man's climax comes so swiftly that the woman's reactions are not nearly ready, and she is left without it.

Married Love: or, Love in Marriage 1918

She is what I call distressingly good; one doesn't want to be treated like a wild beast in a menagerie, and to be every now and then stirred up with a long stick. "

Sowing and Reaping Frances Ellen Watkins Harper 1868

They’re realistic people who are damaged in distressingly recognizable ways, and Small is left to try and escape the generational cycle.

From the stack: Stitches 2009

They’re realistic people who are damaged in distressingly recognizable ways, and Small is left to try and escape the generational cycle.

10 « September « 2009 « The Manga Curmudgeon 2009

Her prominent commonplace brown eyes were gazing up the walk, an expression distressingly like envious anger in them.

Susan Lenox: Her Fall and Rise, Volume I 1915

Her prominent commonplace brown eyes were gazing up the walk, an expression distressingly like envious anger in them.

Susan Lenox: Her Fall and Rise David Graham Phillips 1889

In explanation of which remark, however, I must confine myself to noting that, as almost all the old monuments at Santa Croce are small, comparatively small, and interesting and exquisite, so the modern, well nigh without exception, are disproportionately vast and pompous, or in other words distressingly vague and vain.

Italian Hours Henry James 1879

You could do things that are less unfair, but they wind up seeming distressingly radical to other people.

Matthew Yglesias » Jared Bernstein Explains the Connection Between Stimulus and Banking Rescue 2009

But it all ended distressingly for her and we became her family.

Problem solved 2011

"But even this court was shocked, not only by the seeming pervasive scope of misconduct but even more distressingly by the seeming casualness by which such conduct is employed."

Christine A. Scheller: 'Felon' Is The New N-Word Christine A. Scheller 2011