Sentence examples for a harrowing act from inspiring English sources

Arshile Gorky's portrait of his mother, in the Whitney Museum, is a harrowing act of memory and witness.

The question of the day in New York City on Tuesday — what would you do? — rode on a wave of outrage over a harrowing act the day before.

Mr. Byrne's long third-act monologue, its shifts in mood exquisitely set off by Pat Collins's lighting, is a harrowing act of self-administered surgery, etched in escalating degrees of pain.

In his review, Ben Brantley of The New York Times described the Irish actor's performance as "a harrowing act of self-administered surgery, etched in escalating degrees of pain".

After a harrowing Act III of "Otello," I left my seat and watched the remainder of the performance on the Lincoln Center plaza, where the proceedings were being shown on a large screen to a non-paying crowd of several thousand people.

They decided, in a rather harrowing act of modern civil disobedience, to remain silent.

Then I had the shock of my life in May when that harrowing act took place with that older man.

3. Violence: Despite the theme of liberation, the 1970s witnessed harrowing acts of violence.

The People's Act of Love by James Meek (Canongate) is a harrowing novel, in its gruesome detail and brutal life in all that snow.

Why don't we remember Khartoum and Omdurman, or The Last Stand at Isandlwana, a harrowing moment in the Zulu war painted as a General Custer-style act of desperate heroism in 1885 by Charles Edwin Fripp?

It's a harrowing survival story, well imagined and forcefully told, about a brutal act that inspires a weak woman to become a strong one.