Sentence examples for a harrowing situation from inspiring English sources

It's a harrowing situation for her and a potentially tricky one for filmmakers, as is apparent from how dissimilar directors handle characters trapped in rooms, coffins, airplanes and the claustrophobia-inducing like.

Throughout the project, titled "Shiny Ghost," Cox pondered the ethical implications of documenting such a harrowing situation, both as an artist and as a granddaughter.

She has the keen intelligence of a reporter and the aching soul of a mother, who comes to empathize with Sarah's harrowing situation.

That doesn't necessarily mean that Americans care more about Miley Cyrus twerking than the harrowing situation in Syria, where innocent civilians have been gassed to death.

The victim's mind morphs to adapt to the harrowing situation, sometimes to the extent of sympathizing with the kidnapper (Stockholm syndrome).

Meanwhile, the Ukrainian military has been meeting with its counterparts in the Visegrad Group to discuss the harrowing situation in Donetsk and Luhansk, and officers hope to conduct joint exercises.

It is not considered lightly, and implies harrowing situations at home.

Fortunately, despite harrowing situations like mine, almost none of us will ever deal with anything like it.

Be prepared to find yourself in harrowing situations.

At a meeting of national-security experts in August, he played out a harrowing crisis situation involving Iran and concluded afterward that "much though I'm attracted to the freshness of Obama's life story, I would come out on the experience side of it" — that is, on Clinton's side.

S/Sgt Hughes and his team were flown into what, said the citation for his George Cross, was "a harrowing and chaotic situation to extract the casualties and recover the bodies.