"harrowing consequences" is a correct and usable phrase in written English.
It is usually used to describe a severe or intense result of a situation or event, usually negative in nature. For example: The accident had a harrowing consequence, leaving the family with a long road to recovery.
A gaggle of white, paleoconservative rednecks with military-style rifles strapped to their chests marching through an African-American neishborhood is never a recipe for harrowing consequences.
Eventually, João is arrested for striking; within four years he'll be arrested again, with more harrowing consequences.
White God is the story of Hagen and his teenage owner, who are forcibly separated with harrowing consequences.
And then there are the harrowing consequences of attempting to come off the drug – the agonising withdrawals, the sweating, the vomiting and hallucinations.
"Faithless" runs two and a half brooding hours; it is vintage Bergman in its preoccupation with the interior life of its characters and the harrowing consequences of their often inscrutable actions.
Dodge's story attests to Mr. Pitre's ability, in this deeply moving book, to convey the harrowing consequences that the war had not only for the American soldiers who served there, but also for the ordinary Iraqis, who found that the United States government's vows to keep them safe were among the many promises not kept.
Look at Iraq: the least plausible reason for going to war - terrorism - has been its most harrowing consequence".
While these moves can be rationalized from most business perspectives, acquiescing to China's digitally authoritarian policies for market access will have harrowing political consequences in the long term.
The series was a huge success in Britain and abroad, and even though Tennant was the bigger name, Colman's portrayal of a woman enduring the harrowing personal consequences of the investigation made the series hers.
In "My Life as a Traitor" she records, in harrowing detail, the dire consequences of indulging her defiant "pink-shoe sensibility," which eventually guarantees her a cell in the infamous Evin prison.
In his groundbreaking book, How Doctors Think, Jerome Groopman provides harrowing examples of misdiagnoses and other negative consequences of tuning out the patient's voice.
