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  • Setting his fables in the palaces of yesteryear, Rosotsky lit them in the hazy aura of dreams, shot them in the soft focus of memories, and capped the first, second, and third acts with close-ups of his starlet: Anna aspiring; Anna distraught; Anna at long last in love.   (source)
  • Frantic now, he plunges into the moving crowd, searching each row of distraught women.   (source)
  • Some seemed calm; others were shaking their heads or looking distraught.   (source)
    distraught = distressed
  • I was beside myself; distraught beyond words.   (source)
  • He had been upset and distraught on the day of his arrest, but he was so sure he'd be released soon.   (source)
    distraught = extremely distressed
  • In spite of her distraught state, Laila almost laughed.   (source)
  • Teabing looked distraught.   (source)
  • Minho was standing behind him, looking distraught and dirty, and spotted Thomas first.   (source)
  • I mean, the thing is, Medea was so distraught by the world, and felt so betrayed, that she murdered her own kids.   (source)
  • "Okay, so I know we're all feeling a little freaked out and distraught right now, but there's something I need to tell you guys," she said.†   (source)
  • Ginny Weasley, who sat next to Colin Creevey in Charms, was distraught, but Harry felt that Fred and George were going the wrong way about cheering her up.†   (source)
  • The child is distraught.†   (source)
  • But when one sad, distraught child who doesn't see the beauty in life goes and wrongly acts on his rage by shooting up a school, people start pointing a finger at heavy metal music.†   (source)
  • I began to imagine how much advantage I might take of Germaine, given that she was distraught.†   (source)
  • Jackson himself looked distraught as the word left him, but no wishing could bring it back now, and for all he could tell, saying it out loud was as great a crime as the act itself, whatever that was.†   (source)
  • You're very distraught, which means 'upset.†   (source)
  • But Tita was distraught.†   (source)
  • Since charity had not produced any tangible results, the distraught young Baby Kochamma invested all her hope in faith.†   (source)
  • He knew my mother would be distraught, and he knew that only he could comfort her.†   (source)
  • But sometimes, late in the day especially, it tends to upset her—she thinks she has to practice, that she has to prepare a piece for school, she gets distraught.†   (source)
  • I went straightaway and found a very distraught Mr. Goldschmidt.†   (source)
  • He slumps back in his chair, distraught.†   (source)
  • Last summer, when Liz and Sarah broke up (for what turned out to be all of a month) and Liz was too distraught to play, they canceled their five-night tour, even though this guy Gordon who plays drums in another band offered to sub for her.†   (source)
  • I wasn't yet completely distraught because there was just the chance I'd left it in the billiards room; otherwise my hope was that someone had borrowed it and would give it back in the morning.†   (source)
  • You saw how distraught he was.†   (source)
  • "I really didn't mean any harm, sir," I said in my best distraught voice.†   (source)
  • Distraught householders sold their finer possessions and replaced them with worthless stuff that would tempt no one.†   (source)
  • From the bank, Dede called Minerva to tell her that she was on her way with the money, but instead she reached a distraught Dona Fefita.†   (source)
  • I wasn't showing, but she knew something was going on because I was so distraught.†   (source)
  • We more or less expect the appearance of elements from Shakespeare's plays, so we're not surprised when a jilted young woman, Tiffany, walks onto a television show set distraught, muttering, bedraggled—in a word, mad—and then disappears shortly after departing, evidently having drowned.†   (source)
  • When I describe Nathaniel's current situation, Barnoff is so distraught he begins to weep.†   (source)
  • As a rile, Simon avoids her type of attenuated and quietly distraught female, although doctors attract such women like magnets.†   (source)
  • I don't remember," he said, distraught.†   (source)
  • He was so distraught that it seemed to those collecting their final salaries that they were in fact consoling him.†   (source)
  • Mama looked even more distraught.†   (source)
  • He is simply distraught.†   (source)
  • There are screen grabs of him giving his first tearful appeal for Megan's return, and next to them are pictures of killers who had also appeared on television, sobbing, seemingly distraught at the fate of their loved ones.†   (source)
  • Tanya and Kate hadn't seen Irina since they'd decided to come to my wedding, and they were distraught that Irina had come so close and yet not returned home; it wasn't easy for them to lose their sister, however temporary the separation might be.†   (source)
  • The poor mother was distraught and shocked.†   (source)
  • Florentino Ariza found her there, distraught: she would rather die than be seen on a pleasure trip, by people she knew, so soon after the death of her husband.†   (source)
  • But somehow it emerged that she was the wife, and the man was her husband, and she had found charges on the cable bill for porn movies and was distraught.†   (source)
  • Zu was shaking her head, looking distraught at the suggestion.†   (source)
  • Following, Charles Halloway watched the distraught boy who led him; observed his head, his frame, the way his pelvis hung from his spine.†   (source)
  • She doesn't have anything to do with it, and even though she doesn't show it, she's distraught.†   (source)
  • Larry was distraught and Janice was at her wit's end.†   (source)
  • Cass sounded a little distraught, but she sends her love to both of you and hopes to see you soon.†   (source)
  • He was a local politician, quite distraught.†   (source)
  • The last time she'd seen him, she'd been distraught; the last time they'd been together, he hadn't bothered to say good-bye.†   (source)
  • He is a distraught man.†   (source)
  • The command was entirely unnecessary, for the moment he began to speak everyone but Milo, Tock, and the distraught bug rushed from the hall, down the stairs, and out of the palace.†   (source)
  • A lady from child welfare visited his house and wrote that Maggie, his mother, was a "bitter, discontent, distraught individual who took out her frustrations on the children with various forms of rejecting behavior."†   (source)
  • And Valentine actually did seem distraught over their deaths.†   (source)
  • Cottonville was a town distraught, and the Hardwick servants had seized the occasion to run out for a bit of delectable gossip in which the least of the horrors included Gray Stoddard's murdered and mutilated body washed down in some mountain stream to the sight of his friends.†   (source)
  • I sat on my bed, petting the still distraught Nala.†   (source)
  • He delivers a heart-wrenching speech, so distraught he can barely contain himself.†   (source)
  • Hardly a day passed without distraught Loyalists or American deserters turning up, filled with tales of woe, many of them having crossed at night by boat from Long Island or New York.†   (source)
  • I spend my weekend at the movies, but I'm so distraught that I can't even enjoy it.†   (source)
  • His warm canteen was empty, and he was too distraught to remember the lister bag hanging outside in the shade between the two tents.†   (source)
  • Further trouble came in the form of a letter, written by my distraught mother.†   (source)
  • No, my sister would be distraught to lose such treasured guests.†   (source)
  • She still couldn't believe her beloved "daddy" had been so lost and distraught that he took his own life.†   (source)
  • 'I do not hate you, I am most distressed about you, I am distraught,' I said.†   (source)
  • A distraught JFK openly shares his fears with Bobby.†   (source)
  • Thorn—stupefied, distraught.†   (source)
  • "I can see that for myself," he snapped, distraught.†   (source)
  • She wrapped an arm around the distraught woman's waist as she led her to the door.†   (source)
  • The previous fall, when he'd come to take tea with Haji Ali, Mortenson had found Korphe's old nurmadhar distraught.†   (source)
  • I swear I saw the ghost of Granny flit distraught around the room.†   (source)
  • His sister-in-law was still distraught over the loss of her children, and grew even more agitated when they passed a wagon loaded with frightened children.†   (source)
  • A distraught guest of Tranquility?†   (source)
  • His behavior was strange, she thought, even for a distraught man.†   (source)
  • They could be satisfied that Blomkvist and Giannini were distraught.†   (source)
  • Klodwig was distraught.†   (source)
  • Facing her, I became too distraught to reply.†   (source)
  • Jimmy Bower, who worked behind the counter and had once danced with Ruby in a show, was distraught.†   (source)
  • When you came to my house and told me I was distraught.†   (source)
  • Danny was pale and seemed tense and distraught.†   (source)
  • No one remarked much on this, though the Prince came home from these wanderings looking tired and distraught.†   (source)
  • An Iowa officer who had risen from the ranks during three years of service while his father and younger sister had died and his brother was missing in action after the battle of Atlanta wrote to his distraught mother in September, 1864, that he could not resign his commission and come home while the war's outcome remained in doubt.†   (source)
  • I was so distraught over what happened to her that I wanted her to keep drinking, as if my blood could fix everything for her.†   (source)
  • Salem stepped around him, and then noticed the man was distraught, weeping inconsolably.†   (source)
  • Only Eli Lavon remained behind at Seraincourt with Gabriel, a decision he later came to regret because his old friend was distraught with worry.†   (source)
  • He lacked all capacity for sustained worry or the distraught vigilance that comes from paranoia.†   (source)
  • That the Lord of Light went to Hellwell at all serves to show that perhaps he was somewhat distraught concerning the state of the world...Hellwell lies at the top of the world and it leads down to its roots.†   (source)
  • This school was a pleasant institution to which I was sent at fourteen by my distraught father, who found me difficult to handle after my mother died.†   (source)
  • There is a tense, distraught air about her.†   (source)
  • Chief Clumly would ask himself later, distraught, raising his clenched fists in the blackness of his bedroom.†   (source)
  • She could hear the distraught and squirming voice.†   (source)
  • How has that made you feel, Harry? Betrayed? Distraught? Misunderstood?   (source)
  • Yesterday afternoon, Silas had phoned the curator and posed as a distraught priest.   (source)
  • He turned and wrote "distraught" on the instructional board.   (source)
    distraught = severe worry or dismay
  • The distraught girl was interrupted by the boat's rushing up onto sandy shore.   (source)
    distraught = extremely distressed
  • In the morning Lale, distraught, joins Leon, and they work furiously as new transports arrive.   (source)
  • John walks home after the school's closing frustrated and distraught.   (source)
  • I received a call from Mr. Dunkins's distraught father after the execution.   (source)
  • People hummed in agreement as her voice grew louder and more distraught.   (source)
    distraught = distressed
  • George's family members were distraught.   (source)
    distraught = extremely distressed
  • I mostly felt bad that I'd left Herbert in such a distraught state.   (source)
  • There was snow and a distraught girl.   (source)
  • More distraught than I'd ever seen him, which surprised me, because Erma had seemed to have some sort of an evil hold over Dad, and I thought he'd be relieved to be free of it.   (source)
  • My last memory would be of the school bus, and he was distraught that I would feel abandoned by them.   (source)
  • 'Distraught' is too strong an adjective to describe salmon-viewing. ... It was too strong an adjective.   (source)
    distraught = severe worry or dismay
  • When I saw myself, I was distraught.   (source)
    distraught = extremely distressed
  • When I imagine that scene of the distraught woman and the tall silver-eyed man, it is still snowing in the kitchen of 31 Himmel Street.   (source)
  • "Okay, bye, Charlie," Reynie said quickly, and Sticky gave a playful salute, but Charlie only stared at them with a distraught expression, as if they'd done him some grievous wrong.   (source)
  • He sat glumly through the rest of the hearing, holding his head, which I found even more disheartening than when he was argumentative and distraught.   (source)
  • She would sometimes become so distraught and ill that her sisters would have to find a relative to take her to the hospital.   (source)
  • I must have looked pretty distraught.   (source)
    distraught = distressed
  • I thought about the botched execution of Horace Dunkins a month earlier and became even more distraught.   (source)
  • As the prisoners talked more and more about the details of the Evans's execution and Wayne Ritter's impending execution, Myers became more and more distraught.   (source)
  • Dan left the church feeling more distraught than when he'd arrived.†   (source)
    distraught = extremely distressed
  • Roran looked from her flushed, angry face to Morn's distraught one, then turned and opened the door.†   (source)
  • In my defense, I was distraught about my children lying half-conscious at my feet.†   (source)
  • Later, when the ambulances arrived, he was so distraught, he could not speak.†   (source)
  • Cynthia was distraught over what her husband had become.†   (source)
  • He looked distraught ....but familiar somehow.†   (source)
  • I'm only telling you," she insists, suddenly distraught.†   (source)
  • I even wrung my hands a little, every bit the distraught student.†   (source)
  • Miep's accounts of these horrors are so heartrending, and Miep is also very distraught.†   (source)
  • His voice was cracked, high-pitched, he sounded distraught.†   (source)
  • Privately, he was distraught and painfully lonely.†   (source)
  • Of all the mourners, Grand Maester Pycelle had seemed the most distraught.†   (source)
  • I will forgive that only because you are distraught and not of your right mind.†   (source)
  • To one side, on the couch, the distraught Mary Lincoln is being comforted by Clara Harris.†   (source)
  • Bourne ran to the first counter and assumed the attitude of a terribly distraught man.†   (source)
  • In the holding cell, I found Shay still distraught, his eyes squinched shut.†   (source)
  • I'm into camp looking pale and distraught finished.†   (source)
  • The poor woman was totally distraught for almost a full week.†   (source)
  • Yes, I I...Queen Margaery has been most distraught about Ser Loras.†   (source)
  • They tend to us when we are sick and injured, or distraught over the illness of a parent or a child.†   (source)
  • He approached the distraught businessman.†   (source)
  • Both were crying, distraught, almost inconsolable.†   (source)
  • She was distraught, too, at the prospect of sending Polly off with someone who spoke no English.†   (source)
  • Reporters and distraught fans phoned his house all night long.†   (source)
  • He seemed distraught to see you in this state.†   (source)
  • Too distraught to think clearly, I did not worry about further contingencies.†   (source)
  • I was so distraught when I heard about your dear, dear mother.†   (source)
  • His globular, exophthalmic eyes were quite distraught.†   (source)
  • For no reason in particular, she glanced over at Lee Teng and his distraught lady.†   (source)
  • He was, Alexander wrote, "nervous and worried and distraught."†   (source)
  • The conversation left me more distraught than ever.†   (source)
  • A distraught Canadian woman looking for information about her missing American husband.†   (source)
  • I was distraught to hear that he had died.†   (source)
  • The distraught woman swept by on her way to the staircase exit.†   (source)
  • She's the distraught woman looking for her missing American husband.†   (source)
  • We will go see Barthelme now and you will talk because I will be too distraught.†   (source)
  • I would ever after define the word "distraught" by the raw fear I saw dwelling there.†   (source)
  • MRS. BRADY looks at her husband, worried and distraught.†   (source)
  • Distraught, I went to the medicine chest and took an Alka-Seltzer.†   (source)
  • When she told me this her voice had a touch of the distraught.†   (source)
  • Harry strode off through the heather, walking in a large circle with the distraught Hermione at its center, casting the spell she usually performed to ensure their protection.†   (source)
  • Capitol police officers were sealing the Rotunda while attempting to herd distraught tourists away from the hand.†   (source)
  • He seems so distraught.†   (source)
  • "Your class," she said, distraught.†   (source)
  • We go back and forth like this, Baba pacing, distraught; me feeding him lies, then trying to distract him with his collection of home-improvement catalogs or something on television.†   (source)
  • At the end of A Farewell to Arms his hero, Frederic Henry, having just experienced the death of his lover, Catherine Barkley, and her baby during childbirth, distraught, walks out into the rain.†   (source)
  • She is ...understandably distraught.†   (source)
  • When the light goes out completely, Buttercup's temporarily distraught and confused, but he recovers and moves on to other things.†   (source)
  • It was four in the morning, still dark, when the twins, exhausted, distraught and covered in mud, made their way through the swamp and approached the History House.†   (source)
  • I was distraught.†   (source)
  • I'm sure you were terribly distraught.†   (source)
  • Virginia, living at home and building military ships at Western Pipe and Steel, was as distraught as Sylvia.†   (source)
  • A. She was distraught.†   (source)
  • He studies the distraught-looking Lale.†   (source)
  • Katherine's distraught brother returned empty-handed, having been forbidden even to visit with Zachary.†   (source)
  • Distraught, in fact.†   (source)
  • You are all distraught, I see.†   (source)
  • Leonardo is ....distraught.†   (source)
  • Shortly after dinnertime, the grooms found Seabiscuit walking in circles, clutching the distraught goat in his teeth and shaking her back and forth.†   (source)
  • His lordship is most distraught.†   (source)
  • Beautiful and well, Yolanda muses, that's what she had wanted with Clive, all things beautiful and well, instead of their obsessive, consuming passion that left her-each time Clive left her-exhausted and distraught.†   (source)
  • Yes, Douglas Posey had delayed the contracts; yes, it had cost John plenty; but the source of their disagreement was to come out in my secret and heated meeting with Phillis, Douglas's distraught wife.†   (source)
  • If we go up there and start hugging people and crying and attempting things that make no sense with people who have no chance—all because we're distraught ...it'll just hurt more folks in the long run.†   (source)
  • Even in the burning barn, with walls of flame towering all around and him in chains, he had not seemed so distraught as he did now.†   (source)
  • She knew that Ryan was a distraught father who was doing exactly what she herself might do were she in his position.†   (source)
  • You look distraught.†   (source)
  • Whenever I spoke to Patsy on the phone, she seemed distraught, as if I somehow knew when I would be coming home.†   (source)
  • They were distraught because they, even they, who could not read newspapers and were eight hundred miles from the nearest front, knew that their cause was lost, AustriaHungary doomed, and the world in collapse.†   (source)
  • But this was untrue, I was not distraught, I was calm, it was the first time I had felt calm or self-possessed for many a long day.†   (source)
  • Mary Lincoln is still so distraught that she will spend the next five weeks sobbing alone in her bedroom; she was notably absent from the list of recorded attendees.†   (source)
  • "What is it?" replied the distraught owner of the sidewalk café, still shaking from the harsh interrogation he had gone through by the police and the descending hordes of journalists.†   (source)
  • The young man, who practically lived in the study carrel farthest from the fireplace, suddenly ran out into the spitting snow, hatless and distraught.†   (source)
  • Despite this, the distraught listeners could still make out the hollow thud of bull hook hitting flesh, again and again and again.†   (source)
  • Worried that Ang Dorje was so distraught that he might refuse to go down, Hutchison beseeched him to descend from the Col immediately.†   (source)
  • She was distraught over the end of her affair with JFK and was openly gossiping about it in Hollywood.†   (source)
  • Her father, distraught, said, "Planes come so low over our place you could make a malted milk from the vibrations."†   (source)
  • Digging further through the file, reading a rare interview Mother had given before my court hearing, I came across an official form stating one of the reasons she "may have" been distraught was she suspected her husband was having an affair with a woman whom was one of Mother's closest friends.†   (source)
  • Angry, distraught men, rural types raised around guns and rifles and upset enough to do something drastic.†   (source)
  • The queen had warned her; no matter what she felt inside, the face she showed the world must look distraught.†   (source)
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