For investors, the company's highly volatile stock has been as harrowing as one of its adventure games.
"Spider" is as harrowing a portrait of one man's tormented isolation as the commercial cinema has produced.
But as harrowing as his crimes were, those at Haut de la Garenne may have been worse.
And as harrowing as they may be, I've always been aware of the kind of grim humour in it all.
The reality, as Ms. Portman discovered in training for her role in "Black Swan" (opening Dec. 3), can be as harrowing as a horror movie.
But as harrowing as the first trial was, it is becoming clear, almost unbelievably, that the second will be even more disturbing.
Tales of near misses can seem as harrowing as those of loss, and people only distantly connected feel closer under the circumstances.
Few accounts of American slavery are as harrowing as Harriet Jacobs's autobiography, "Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl," which reveals the unique suffering of enslaved women.
What little information trickled out was as harrowing as what had come in the days before, when some hostages who had managed to escape told of workers being forced to wear explosives.
It is a situation as harrowing as it is rare: a pregnant woman suffering severe trauma arrives in an emergency room on the edge of death, and the life of her unborn baby hangs in the balance.
The whole barn vibrates.'' Of course, Misty's road to recovery — when viewed in light of her history and that of all the other captive elephants, past and present — is as harrowing as it is heartening.
