(1) The next morning when he came downstairs, his wife asked what he had learned; he looked around with a nervous and troubled glance, and after locking the door, assured her that the rumor was true.(2) The following night, the man felt another tap on his shoulder, and sees the same troubled face staring back.(3) The troubled undergraduate's primary difficulty lay in conceiving how anything could float.(4) He had a troubled background including family difficulties from an early age and had started to take heroin at an early age.(5) Caroline does not reciprocate his feelings, tolerating Noah at best, too concerned with her own family problems to befriend a troubled white boy.(6) On arriving in the troubled area, dark clouds and intense humidity increased the sense of tension in the area.(7) The birds did not make a sound as Callan rose from her bed and went outside to find fresh water; it was a bad omen, but then not unusual in those dark and troubled times.(8) He cast himself as the hero, at 22 years old trying to put his troubled past behind him and go straight, but beset with biblical problems and temptations at every step.(9) Problems on the troubled estate have increased following the loss of the area's two community police officers.(10) I would like to pay tribute to the staff who worked so hard to support this troubled young woman.(11) Hannah exchanged a troubled glance with Sister Evangeline.(12) It is far from the image of a troubled , inner-city school beset by social problems.(13) The problems facing the troubled suburbs are due in part to the growing fragmentation of our metropolitan areas.(14) In these dark and troubled times, we need all the help we can get.(15) His marriages are often mentioned and described as troubled , difficult, but no great detail about them is given.(16) Still, only some of their difficulties could be attributed to their troubled relationships with their mothers.
