The phrase "a harrowing record" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe a record or account that is distressing or deeply unsettling, often related to traumatic events or experiences.
Example: "The documentary presented a harrowing record of the survivors' experiences during the war."
Alternatives: "a distressing account" or "a chilling report".
It is a harrowing record of New York's trauma that stands equally as a bracing affirmation of New Yorkers.
MARY ELLEN MARK Mark, a frequent contributor to this magazine, shows vintage black-and-white photographs and maquettes of her 1979 book, "Ward 81," a harrowing record of thirty-six dayspentnt with the female patients in the lock-down ward of an Oregon mental hospital.
"Between 1882 and 1968, an estimated 4,742 blacks met their deaths at the hands of lynch mobs," the historian Leon F. Litwack writes in WITHOUT SANCTUARY: Lynching Photography in America (Twin Palms, $60), a harrowing record of racism and savagery drawn from the Allen-Littlefield Collection at the Robert W. Woodruff Library at Emory University.
In a harrowing recording of Miss Barnes's 999 call, her screams and sobs were heard by a hushed courtroom as she begged the operator for help, gasping: "He's stabbed me to death... my boyfriend, please help me.
Written and recorded in a week at the Crutchfield family's Birmingham home, "American Weekend" is an audacious, sometimes harrowing record, a true open wound.
"With my voice, I am calling you," Cave moans, again and again, to open "Skeleton Tree," and that's the way the rest of this gorgeous but harrowing record plays out: as though the artist — known for an unflinching Gothic sensibility as dark as his ink-black hair — is using his music to combat the terrible irreversibility of what happened just over a year ago.
In a city that has known epic fights over apartments, the Cheneys of the El Dorado, at 300 Central Park West, may have some kind of harrowing record.
Merzabeth Tagpuno Wright was livid that Warriena's final moments, captured and played in a harrowing audio recording, were released to the media during the trial.
The inquest heard a harrowing tape recording of a previous court appearance by Batty where she was seeking to change the conditions of an intervention order so it was less vague about which of Luke's sport events Anderson could attend.
Willow's book is a harrowing read even for her.
It was a harrowing journey.
