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This small gift, coming as it does after the harrowing things he has experienced, is transmuted into an almost miraculous event, and his giddiness at the prospect of satiety is palpable.
Some of these tidyings are reasonable: presenting Boreman's harrowing account of appearing under coercion in a bestiality porn film called Dogarama to a mainstream audience would be, to say the least, challenging.
"If true it is a harrowing tale, but I also have to make the point that we are going to stop the boats, that we are going to maintain our policies," he told the Nine Network on Wednesday morning.
"Part of the reason people tune off is they're always hearing '60 people were gunned down in their school'," said Nigerian rights campaigner Saratu Abiola, whose Testimonial Archive Project is an ever-growing collection of harrowing stories from survivors of the mass murders.
It was the second day of harrowing evidence in an inquiry that is investigating care homes, orphanages and other institutions that held children in Northern Ireland from 1922 to 1995.
The inevitable descent into post-fame psychosis was laid down in harrowing detail through his five-album arc.
Marduk collages harrowing news reports of female political activists abducted, tortured or "disappeared" in places such as Paraguay, Turkey, and China, and juxtaposes them with an equally violent script: a Sumerian creation myth in which the god Marduk murders and disembowels the goddess Tiamat, splitting her "like a flat fish into two halves" to make "a covering for the heavens".
Steve Harmison also returned to form, taking four wickets after harrowing match figures of one for 288 in the first two Tests.
The harrowing events of Angela Machinga's death had a devastating effect on Tutu and her family, the reverberations of which she says are still very present two years on.
Far from the Tree by Andrew Solomon Simonn and Schuster) is an astonishing, moving, sometimes harrowing account of many different kinds of families and many different kinds of love.
That was only to be expected.During the last weeks of the sentencing trial, several jury members broke down as they heard the harrowing descriptions of shattered lives.
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The word "harrowing" primarily functions as an adjective , modifying nouns to describe experiences or situations that cause extreme distress or suffering. Ludwig AI confirms its correct and usable nature in written English, providing numerous examples of its application.
Expression frequency: Very common
