Everyone has been faced with the same harrowing decision when stuck in an airport: What in the hell am I going to eat and drink now?
Since the revolution began in Cuba, the overwhelming majority of athletes have remained, with only about 1percentt having made the harrowing decision to defect.
In the movie Proof of Life, loosely based on real events and released in 2000, Meg Ryan's character has some harrowing decisions to make.
Had they not been, and had their more harrowing decisions been accompanied by many, many other harrowing decisions (what if Lincoln acquiesced to slavery and southern secession?), then yes, liberals ought to view them through the same contextual prism, say, Nixon, Hoover or George W. Bush.
Two Syrian brothers who are both journalists describe the harrowing decisions that led one to flee their hometown of Aleppo for Turkey, and the other to keep working from inside the besieged city. .
Extrapolating from Johnson's known tendency to "split the difference" when making important decisions, Mr. Greenfield draws a harrowing portrait of his handling of the Vietnam War and the Cuban missile crisis, writing that nuclear catastrophe over the Cuba confrontation is averted through sheer "blind luck".
In the fourth volume of his memoir, "Breath: A Decision," he writes of a harrowing night spent in a way station for the nearly dead: Every half-hour a sister comes and lifts my hand, then drops it again.
His fervent, self-deprecating apologies notwithstanding, it was a harrowing engagement present, and speculation regarding Alice's decision to marry him the next year should have provided the most dramatic and revelatory passages in the book.
It was a harrowing journey.
