Sentence examples for harrowing at from inspiring English sources

It was the week in the middle that was harrowing, at best a 3.

Still, he concedes, it's very easy to make the case that the factors affecting the stock, bond, currency and commodity markets are spectacularly harrowing at the moment.

City life can be harrowing at times it's hard to find an escape from the constant bustle, noise, and pollution of an urban environment.

At times harrowing, at times infuriating, Methland is an elegy, not a eulogy.

The writing was harrowing, and at night she had terrible dreams.

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

That afternoon was harrowing, but at least it gave us certainty.

Dull Gret, pictured by Brueghel harrowing hell at the head of a crowd of ransacking women, chomps on potatoes.

The staff spoke of harrowing weeks at the hospital, where a nurse was killed by shelling and the intensive care unit was destroyed, Dr. Abdul Moneim al-Mabsout said.

Yeon-mi, who was relatively unknown when filming started, gained global recognition for her "courageous" and "harrowing" speech at the One Young World Forum in Dublin, Ireland last year.

The situation was not peaceful for local firefighters, several of whom had been dispatched to fight the harrowing blaze at Lake Arrowhead, about 20 miles west of here, and who were now focusing their efforts on protecting Big Bear Lake and the surrounding valley.