Sentence examples for harrowing about from inspiring English sources

Obviously, not everyone past the age where trying to look cool is horrifically uncool is terrible at handling their drugs, but there's something uniquely harrowing about making wide-eyed eye contact with a breathy, sweaty 52 year old estate agent stuffed into a stripy shirt and some battered adidas Sambas in the corner of a nightclub.

"That's what's so harrowing about his position".

It is about harrowing fear and about fortitude in the face of that fear.

"The Yellow Birds" is brilliantly observed and deeply affecting: at once a freshly imagined story about a soldier's coming of age, a harrowing tale about the friendship of two young men trying to stay alive on the battlefield in Iraq, and a philosophical parable about the loss of innocence and the uses of memory.

A freckled young fisherman told harrowing stories about a crab trap and a four-prong anchor.

"Numbers," the third part of "Zone," is a succession of pantomime sketches linked to harrowing statistics about life in Belarus.

At the same time, it underscored Tsarnaev's implacability during weeks of harrowing testimony about the devastation he had caused.

From 35,000 feet, they relayed harrowing details about the hijacking in progress to the police.

A fluent storyteller, Fei entwines this family narrative with harrowing passages about the Rape of Nanjing and the oppression of early Chinese immigrants to America.

That was preceded by an unprecedented showing on Russian television of a magnificent and harrowing film about Katyń by Andrzej Wajda, Poland's greatest film-maker.

Diamond also gave harrowing evidence about her treatment by the press at the time of the birth of her first child.