'harrowing decision' is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it to describe a difficult, or emotionally difficult, decision. For example, "After much deliberation, she had to make the harrowing decision to break up with him."
As the house caught on fire, Siadi made the harrowing decision to leave his dying wife, trapped under the rubble, so that he and his son could get out alive.
Since the revolution began in Cuba, the overwhelming majority of athletes have remained, with only about 1percentt having made the harrowing decision to defect.
Everyone has been faced with the same harrowing decision when stuck in an airport: What in the hell am I going to eat and drink now?
"Michele and I have always been super-cautious, belt-and-suspenders kind of folks, so this was a harrowing decision," Sorkowitz said.
But I am also a mother who made some harrowing decisions and fought desperately to take care of myself and my kids.
In the movie Proof of Life, loosely based on real events and released in 2000, Meg Ryan's character has some harrowing decisions to make.
Had they not been, and had their more harrowing decisions been accompanied by many, many other harrowing decisions (what if Lincoln acquiesced to slavery and southern secession?), then yes, liberals ought to view them through the same contextual prism, say, Nixon, Hoover or George W. Bush.
Two Syrian brothers who are both journalists describe the harrowing decisions that led one to flee their hometown of Aleppo for Turkey, and the other to keep working from inside the besieged city. .
While the movie faithfully recounts Lincoln's hardscrabble log-cabin life in Illinois and the harrowing moral decisions of the Civil War, it also adopts a perspective heretofore unembraced in historical circles: That the pivotal events of the 16th president's life were maliciously engineered by vampires and that Honest Abe was vengefully intent on cleaving into as many of said ghouls as possible.
He set out his findings, in harrowing detail, in a 118-page decision.
Maynard was open about her harrowing journey, writing articles about the decision to die on her own terms and posting emotional videos to raise awareness about death with dignity.
