Sentence examples for It is harrowing from inspiring English sources
It is harrowing to contemplate the 29 works from the series gathered in one dimly lighted gallery.
"It is harrowing to learn that last year, nearly 2 million adults experienced domestic abuse, including one in eight women aged 16 to 19," said Lucy Hastings, of the charity Victim Support.
Like the best war films, it is harrowing, starkly realistic and at times excruciatingly vivid in detail.
As it is, harrowing scenes of children euthanizing their parents must coexist with scenes of slapstick chaos on airport runways — dogs saving the day while Kim Jong Il sprints down the tarmac in search of a missing person, "trotting as fast as he could... tummy bouncing inside his gray jumpsuit".
He lives in the narrow kitchen of a grim Brooklyn apartment with a contemptuous roommate, Charles Paul Grimstadd), an aspiring musician, and the movie's main drama, as comical as it is harrowing, is Keith's attempt to get Charles to pay his share of the electric bill before the lights are turned off.
It's harrowing almost beyond belief.
It's harrowing, truthful stuff.
It was harrowing, he said.
