Sentence examples for harrowing battle from inspiring English sources

In a scene in "The Hours," in which she plays a suicidal housewife named Laura Brown, Laura is in the bathroom, fighting a harrowing battle with her desperation.

Family members of the posthumous honorees joined the president as well, and the citations described harrowing battle scenes.

Gravagna is among 98 people denied state Medicaid funding for potentially life-saving transplants and at the forefront of a harrowing battle over the state's public finances.

In 1820, crewmen from the New England vessel Essex face a harrowing battle for survival after a whale of mammoth size and strength attacks with force, crippling their ship and leaving them adrift in the ocean.

But those who do, are seriously skilled, deeply trained -- and even more maniacally driven, willing to throw their entire life into the scrum and face the harrowing battle every...freaking...single...day...day

Produced by Downey Jr. and his wife Susan through their "Team Downey" production company and written by Nick Schenk and Bill Dubuque, The Judge appears like a simple dysfunctional family drama, until it devolves into a harrowing battle of father-son bullying that would make any self-respecting Greek dramatist proud.

During the Civil War, Beadle's Dime Novels were especially popular with soldiers, who had lots of down time between their harrowing battles to read about detectives and Indian raids.

The harrowing battles — replete with graphically simulated decapitations and blood-spurting spear wounds — are sparked by conflicts over religion, money, and sex, which Griffith magnifies, with histrionic artifice, to a sort of movie opera.

It is just that kind of expertise, forged in harrowing battles, that Army officials say has led them to a policy that adds considerably to the time soldiers like Specialist Barajas will spend in Iraq.

Not in New York, anyway, where millions know him all too well, either from chance sightings in the subway, back-street encounters or harrowing battles waged in the sanctity of the home.

I traveled to foreign countries, deployed to combat zones, and fought in one of the most harrowing battles in Afghanistan.