Sentences with phrase «from distraught»

A Chicago Tribune travel columnist recently received a letter from a distraught consumer; she and her husband planned a vacation to Hawaii and used 71,000 Capital One «no hassle miles» to get the plane tickets.

We get many calls from distraught people who have either arrived on island, or are getting near their arrival date, only to discover they have

I have recently received a cluster of letters from distraught readers of my internationally syndicated newspaper column Animal Doctor whose dogs and cats have almost died or have died following...

The day before, ElderDog received a call from a distraught senior, who had lost both her husband and dog within a very short period and desperately wanted a small companion.

On June 13, 2006, I got an email from a distraught investor I will call Michael Buchanan.

Yes, it's another Monday Mailbag in which we gather questions from my email inbox, from the comments on the blog, and from strange calls in the middle of the night from distraught authors wondering just where they went wrong.

Here at the Schools Music Association's office, we have received a worrying number of letters from distraught parents of musician - children, who, having chosen a secondary school because of its emphasis on music, now find that their school is no - longer offering GCSE Music.

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Wired's underwriters may have been sitting at the next table over from the distraught Wired staffer in that San Francisco restaurant, apparently unfazed by the deal's painful crack - up.

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But added that she also had been distraught from the recent spotlight on her after details emerged on alleged sexual misconduct by Harvey Weinstein, saying she «became collateral damage in an already horrific story.»

Maggie, distraught over all that she's lost, asks Dunn to end her life, and everything that happens from that point on — from the festering ulcers on her body, to her attempted suicide — is intended to justify Dunn's decision to help her.

Case in point: As the time draws near for Daniel Craig to graduate from his role as debonair and distraught secret agent James Bond, people have been betting on future 007 hopefuls.

The Psalter is the church's prayer book, and the reformers saw it as an inspired document able to teach believers both how to praise God with «hallelujahs» and how to receive comfort from God when the soul is distraught and cast down.

He lies distraught in the Florida sand after being rescued from death's double assault — a heart attack during a boating accident where he almost killed his granddaughter.

The Christian gospel can save the world from its present confusion and chaos and can bring stability to the lives of distraught individuals, but only on God's terms, not on ours.

He's not only distraught at the murder of believers in his area but is appalled at lack of clarity from the government on the issue: «The sad thing about it is that the government is not able to apprehend not even one of these people — these herdsmen.

Giovanni Malagò, the Serie A commissioner, had taken phone calls from one team president after another, each relaying that their players were too distraught to press ahead.

the flow of the game suggested that a distraught and exhausted arsenal, eliminated from europe by a very late wayne bridge goal less than 48 hours prior, were there for the taking and likely to blow their unbeaten season.

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From being emotionally distraught and managing weird body aches to feel nauseous, pregnancy can be a physically and emotionally exhausting experience for most women.

In an apparent distraught against this considered loud mouth vituperations, the party took arbitrary steps particularly at the regional levels to suspend a handful of supposed deviants upon receipts of petitions which rather flowed copiously like the river Jordan from all manner of party persons who particularly were enthusiastic about the cutting to size, those who were perceived to have overgrown their wings against the very much revered flagbearer.

Jennifer Palmieri, communications director for Hillary Clinton's 2016 campaign, revealed longtime Clinton aide Huma Abedin was «distraught» after the FBI announced shortly before the Election Day that emails from Clinton's tenure at the State Department were found on her then - husband Anthony Weiner's laptop.

In a statement from Dr Nduom's communication team, it said: «the Progressive People's Party (PPP) is very much distraught about the death of three of our party supporters in Salaga in the Northern Region.»

Mr Livingstone claimed Mr Corbyn's advisers had been left «distraught» at the briefings from anti-Corbyn MPs as speculation mounted that a «revenge reshuffle» was on the cards.

He winced at stories of congenitally damaged children, and his global interest in the DNA of Jewish populations sprang from a desire never again to hold the hand of a distraught Jewish parent.

Three years ago, a distraught message from a teen to Anthony Aveni, an astronomer at Colgate University who specializes in meso - American culture, led him to write The End of Time: The Maya Mystery of 2012, a book that investigates and discredits the 2012 scenarios.

He did not seem distraught or unusually upset by his mother's death, Vogels says, noting that, if anything, Gray appeared relieved that his elderly mother was no longer suffering from a protracted illness, and he was in good spirits after becoming a grandfather last year.

She had listened to distraught adults around her that had referred to how beautiful her friend had been and from this she had carried a guilt that it would have been better if it had been her.

After the Rana Plaza disaster, many people in ethical fashion circles became distraught and wondered how we could prevent such a tragedy from ever happening again.

Distraught at the thought of his son sharing the same bloody fate he suffered, Vlad seeks out anything that can help protect his family and kingdom from Mehmed's endless horde of soldiers.

Unlike the grief - stricken public that knew Diana from her regular media appearances, neither Blair nor the Queen seems very personally distraught by the news.

As the film opens, Claire, the world's most improbably stunning housewife, is distraught over sending her daughter from her first marriage off to college.

And while the cast is uniformly strong, it's Romeo, the distraught and determined patriarch who tries to make right but seems doomed from the outset, that ferries us across these troubled and tempestuous waters.

DeHaan's Zach is distraught when his girlfriend Beth (Plaza) dies, but things may be looking up when he discovers that her parents (Molly Shannon and John C. Reilly) have found a way to resurrect her, which is a miracle (it's from the Old Testament).

As a young person increasingly fearful about the threat of nuclear annihilation, especially as the Cuban missile crisis unfolds, Fanning displays a dazzling naturalness on camera, an ability to move persuasively between any number of emotions, from hesitant to sassy to distraught to anything else you can name.

Caught up somewhere in the middle of all this is Amos, who enters into an affair with the distraught Diana (who cozies up to him at a community Bible study), perhaps because she's really into him, perhaps because she's trying to prevent him from testifying against her husband, or perhaps because the screenplay needs for this to happen in order to fulfill its thesis that all of us make bad decisions and that the truth will eventually set us free.

This «operativo» turned into one of the most hair - raising and intense parts of the film and also an important turning point: while scoping out an area of town, they got shot at; frantically jumped out of the car to take cover; got info about who was shooting at them and went on a witch - hunt through town looking for a «white Jetta,» Instead, they found a seemingly innocent man in a white Cherokee; pulled him out of the car and then away from his family and distraught young daughter; interrogated him at gun point in the back seat of the car speeding through town as I was jammed in between the two middle seats; and then brought him back to a torture chamber where they were similarly interrogating others with tazers.

A lonely octogenarian (Bruce Dern) prepares for death by taking inventory of his possessions; a distraught widow (Ellen Burstyn) salvages keepsakes from her burned - out home.

The two make a completely believable duo, wiping sleep from their eyes as relatives of a distraught mother appear at their doorstep.

Such is the goal of Mildred (Frances McDormand), the mother of a murdered daughter distraught over the lack of movement from the local police department.

There, Johnny Rispoli (Edwin Bordo), the jilted and distraught ex of Tina, accuses Danny of stealing her from him while vowing to dramatically swallow iodine.

Egoyan coaxes credibly haunted performances from some of his cast (including an anguished Reynolds), and he uses the shuffled scene order to demonstrate the depths his distraught characters sink to, sometimes leaping in one cut from happy times to several difficult years later.

It may have been a small gesture, but we were very impressed when our guide excused herself from answering our questions during the tour to attend to a young student who became distraught during an activity.

Students often enter high school anxious, disengaged, emotionally distraught and held back from their full potential.

From my experience, the more emotionally distraught my family became the worse the hoarding was.

One day Shadow disappears, and Rosy is again distraught until a girl from her new school brings Shadow home in a box.

Suddenly, a series of crib deaths — indistinguishable from SIDS except for the fevered testimony of one distraught mother with connections in high places — draws the attention of the police and the national media and raises the possibility of the inconceivable: could there be a serial infant murderer on the loose?

One author I know said he had all 3 of his reviews removed (he only had 3) and he was a bit distraught over it until several of us let him know that we could still see those 3 reviews up from our side.

One apartment fire later, the family is standing outside calling from a cell phone, distraught, praying they have the coverage they thought they did.

She was distraught because she had received a letter from the IRS about her charitable donation.