She smiled as we reached a distressingly large space where I had left the car.

Like a distressingly large number of contemporary artworks dealing with this subject - Eddie Murphy's last film, Tom Cruise's all-American Lestat - "Stainless" is all sizzle, no stake.

Besieged by striking workers, a disgruntled military and a distressingly large number of tax delinquents, the Russian Government has been running hard just to stay in place.

That alone entitled us to a 10 percent discount, since the American Colony actively courts foreign journalists, who constitute a distressingly large share of Jerusalem's business travelers.

There were also any number of Pagan and Druidic shrines, based around grotesque wood carvings and distressingly large phallic symbols.

From what I could see, the vertebrae were pockmarked, with distressingly large gaps where there should have been none.

Even when she'd packed everything as compactly as she could, it still bulked distressingly large.

But there were gaps, and just now they were turning out to be distressingly large gaps.

After a distressingly large pile of leaves has accumulated next to my compost bin, I sacrifice the moral high ground so arduously gained over the past six hours by firing up a gasoline-powered mulcher, which easily drowns out the neighbor's blower.