Sentence examples for a harrowing shot from inspiring English sources

This was preceded by a harrowing shot through the rocky Sumbawa Straight, with the boat tipping so close to the water that all of us aboard would roll onto each other (awkward!) each time it perched from side to side.

It is a harrowing scene.

Witnesses recounted a harrowing scene.

This philosophical tale with a whiplash ending presses the director's elegant style to the breaking point, climaxing with a harrowing, vertiginous shot that rises to the nightmarish sublimity of the moment.

Morrison uses antique, bleached-out footage of the deluge (complete with harrowing shots of wrecked houses and washed up cattle carcasses) to tell the story of half a million flood victims who were left homeless.

The couple involved in the slap is shown in a harrowing series of color shots that look like the nightmare dissolution sequence of a period sexploitation movie.

THE scene is a harrowing one.

With the use of feverish fantasy scenes and claustrophobic camera shots, the film builds to a harrowing climax.

He later wrote a preface to a harrowing documentary novel about a man unjustly court-martialled and shot for cowardice.

I also have to tell them that, for that slim shot at survival, they will have to endure a harrowing two years of treatment.

A defendant in the case, Craig Godineaux, pleaded guilty and then stunned a courtroom packed with the victims' relatives with a harrowing account of how the fast-food workers were methodically bound, gagged and shot in a basement freezer.