Sentence examples for a difficult and harrowing from inspiring English sources

It has been a difficult and harrowing trip; I've met many refugees throughout my career, but here I am hearing some of the worst stories I can remember.

The more efficient and fluid the path they define, and the more difficult and harrowing the terrain they cross, the more elegant the performance is considered by the discipline's practitioners.

This is knowledge achieved in an atmosphere of social contention, not cloistered knowledge but the hard-won knowledge of a man in difficult and harrowing life-circumstances.

Before they left the court, Mr Hinchliff said: "This has been a complex, difficult and sometimes harrowing exercise.

It has been a difficult, often harrowing season for David Moyes and the late drama here leaves a struggling team with only the Champions League to prevent his first year in charge becoming a total write-off.

A climactic and harrowing final scene, set in 2005, reunites the Madigans for Christmas.

Speaking to The Independent, Minister Alan Duncan said: "It was a very moving and harrowing experience.

Many a novelist thereafter kept a precise record of his cogitations, anxieties, and harrowing moments of inability to create.

I meant appalling and harrowing.

Very intimately recorded and harrowing.

In contrast, fencing, fertilizing and harrowing were ineffective.