Grunt, alas, had a distracting and distressing tendency to mentally undress her, and worse.

As if the poor dear didn't have enough problems with her looks, her complexion had a distressing tendency to erupt into spots.

Besides, those tapes had a distressing tendency to break or snarl.

This meant in practice that as development issues arose, the Companies had a distressing tendency to blame each other for the problem rather than try to resolve it.

Given these evil credentials, her fondness for boxed wine and her distressing tendency to discuss her nail fungus generally pass without comment.

That's because your ideas have a distressing tendency to revolve around violence, murder, and bloody mayhem, and stealing anything that isn't actually nailed down.

Except for the last, these works show Massenet's distressing tendency to undertake ungainly mythic or historical subjects that did not match his innocently melodic style.

Picard, disturbed by the encounter with Data, confesses to Riker a "distressing tendency toward bigotry"28 in the case.

Ordinary people don't go into the Sangreal anymore, or if they do, they have a distressing tendency not to come out again.

Not the least of these was MenoHy's distressing tendency toward tone-making.