Sentence examples for harrowing choice from inspiring English sources

Prosecutors have often faced a harrowing choice between blowing sources and holding back evidence.

These last, doomed flourishes of the ailing genius left opponents with the heartbreaking dilemma; run out a gasping Jackson as he flayed their bowling attacks around but struggled between the wickets or, as Frith put it, "spare him so that his obsessive but self-destructive love of batting could continue to be gratified; a harrowing choice of mercies".

After realizing that the "live" stream of the Grammys was not a live stream at all but a four-camera view of what wasn't happening onstage (aka a brilliant plot to get people to buy cable), I was left with a harrowing choice: bunny ears or bust.

Impossible math or visible shame it's a double bind that plagues the catastrophically broke, and the kind of harrowing choice Matthew Desmond renders vividly and repeatedly in his extraordinary new book Evicted, a lyrical and exhaustively researched ethnography of eviction's effect on the poor in America.

It's real pain that forces some harrowing choices.

But for many women, the choices are harrowing.

But it's actually a very complex, often very funny, sometimes harrowing play about complicated choices people make".

It was a difficult choice, but their harrowing journey wasn't over.

(Anthony Tommasini) 'LOST CHILDHOOD' (Wednesday) Yehuda Nir's harrowing Holocaust memoir makes a strange choice for an opera, but Janice Hamer, a composer, and Mary Azrael, a librettist, have made it into one, and the results may be powerful.

In its cover story this week, Time magazine sees "an electorate caught in times of harrowing change -- when the day starts with a choice of 15 kinds of coffee and five ways to get your e-mail".

As harrowing as it is violent, A Long Way Gone is an odd choice for a sanitised coffee chain.