Sentence examples for a harrowing event from inspiring English sources

Equally restrained yet full of feeling, Nancy Carpenter's illustrations, a mixture of pen and ink and watercolor, hit an evocative, cinematic peak in depicting a nighttime rescue at sea, a harrowing event that propels the story to its happy ending.

Alan, the seemingly open-minded academic, finds his liberalism challenged both by a harrowing event he keeps putting off describing and the exoticism of his most stimulating student, who is black or, as he quickly amends, African-American.

Not everyone is vulnerable to post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD --the extreme anxiety, dePTSD --theand nightmares that can follow a harrowing event.

Haunted by the violent death of a black woman with Tourette's syndrome 20 years earlier, an English schoolteacher recreates the harrowing event with the help of newspaper clippings, police reports and personal letters, and forces her racist neighbors to confront their role in the murder.

The video, compiled from several of the skydivers' helmet cameras, gives an incredible perspective of the harrowing event: the collision as skydivers were about to jump; the second plane erupting in flames; a skydiver clinging to a wing of the first plane before letting go; planes and people careening toward earth; and finally parachutes being released and landings being made.

In "Salesman" there is always a straight line leading from a harrowing past event to a present neurosis or failure.

"I was calm," Mr. Sidinta, a 38-year-old bricklayer, said the day after the harrowing event.

A woman who escaped a fire in her Tulsa, Oklahoma apartment building has become a viral sensation this week thanks to her dramatic retelling of the harrowing event.

His talent for evoking credible scenarios is evident, also, in his poignant description of a UVF bombing, and the recurring anxieties which plague the victims of this harrowing event: ("Some of what I'd seen hit me days, years, later. I'd wake up in it again; the smoke and the grit would be at my mouth and nostrils, in my own bed").

As the tenth anniversary of the terrorist attack approaches and the country remembers the harrowing event, she said the pain, flashbacks and nightmares she regularly experiences have intensified.

In more than six years since a ferryboat he captained crashed into a dock on Staten Island, killing 11 passengers, Michael J. Gansas has been reluctant to speak publicly about that harrowing event.