Sentence examples for can be harrowing from inspiring English sources

It can be harrowing to watch majestic animals try to kill each other.

The overland trek across the border, often on foot or under cover of darkness, can be harrowing.

The frenzied outpouring of energy, as of an animal caught in a trap, can be harrowing to watch.

Yet for many of the people who live here — some of whom say they rarely enter the conservatory — Garfield Park can be harrowing.

For students at Public School 75, at Bruckner Boulevard and Bryant Avenue, the trip to and from school can be harrowing.

A generation later, Kureishi's easy frankness extends to the fraught psychological, conversational margins of sex acts, and such guilt-ridden works as the novella "Intimacy" and the short story "Strangers When We Meet" can be harrowing.

Being onstage can often be harrowing enough — so much can go wrong even without any hecklers in the audience — but this show kicks that concept up a notch.

Scenes can be tender, harrowing or headshaking.

And a trip through the records, either at home or at the Ellis Island museum, can be emotionally harrowing.

But navigating the obsessive attention of young fans amid today's media landscape — all Twitter, all YouTube, all TMZ, all the time — can be particularly harrowing.

They are harrowing and provoke deep emotion, but they can be numbing and isolating.