We behold, awe-struck, the harrowing "Disasters of War" by Goya; the dissonant post-World War I Expressionism of Otto Dix; the mourning women depicted by Käthe Kollwitz, who lost a son and a grandson in wars.
Seconds later, a thundering explosion rocked the rig, the beginning of a terrifying night for the men who would survive one of the most harrowing disasters in the history of the oil business.
With astonishing compassion and candour, one of the country's leading neurosurgeons reveals the fierce joy of operating, the profoundly moving triumphs, the harrowing disasters, the haunting regrets and the moments of black humour that characterise a brain surgeon's life.
It is a strikingly harrowing disaster film and Wahlberg is in classic Wahlberg mode: the blue-collar hero, standing his ground against, on the one side, Malkovich's scenery chewing and, on the other, the pyrotechnic special effects.
The flight was made after a two-and-a-half year pause in Soviet launches, following a harrowing disaster with Soyuz 11, when a faulty air valve caused decompression of the capsule during re-entry.
Adapted under the name Everest and starring Josh Brolin, Robin Wright, Keira Knightley, and Jake Gyllenhaal, it promises to bring the harrowing disaster to life.
Despite a harrowing natural disaster that befell the dirt-poor Caribbean country just four months ago, the humdrum of daily life here goes on.
The teachers at Public School 234, on Chambers Street, had to evacuate 6- and 7-year-olds during the most harrowing part of the disaster, just after the second trade center tower collapsed, enveloping the school in a debris-filled cloud.
Each magazine's sub-site offers its own specialized content, from boat reviews to travel articles to readers' harrowing tales of near-disaster.
But what is known about the disaster is harrowing and terrifying, as The Summit shows in impressive detail how a steady accumulation of accidents, miscalculations, rescue attempts, and delays put the climbers far enough behind schedule that they became trapped in the dead zone as darkness fell.
Almost a hundred years before, Theodore Roosevelt came to the Amazon with his own series of setbacks (he had just lost the 1912 election, among other things) only to encounter more disasters on a harrowing near-death expedition down an unexplored tributary called the Rio da Dúvida, or River of Doubt.
