This triptych construct is both compelling and clumsy, particularly in Shizuka's scenes, where the parallels to Ophelia are the most labored and the material the thinnest, and in the forced yet harrowing ending in which the three stories collide.
"Les Noces," which tells the story of an arranged marriage, set to Stravinsky's jagged, harrowing score, ends up looking plainly decorous.
It shapes our stories -- innocuous ones that unfold on front porches, harrowing ones that end in funerals and protests.
On another bizarre, harrowing afternoon that ended with one angry driver spinning out another and a second flagman being hit with a beverage cooler by an enraged fan, Johnson won the Pocono 500 under caution.
In an effort to end the harrowing repetition, the Nets will fire Casey early next week, ending his 112-game tenure as the team's head coach with a 44-68 record.
The first series of the harrowing BBC abduction drama ended in dramatic fashion last December when the mystery of who stole five-year-old Oliver Hughes on a family holiday in France was 'solved', only for the final scene to be left ambiguous.
The plea also ended a harrowing two decades for Sheriff Reichert's wife and his three children, the oldest of whom was 10 when the case began.
The paper ran the pictures alongside harrowing reportage for days on end.
Watching his transformation over the course of the show's five seasons – full of cocksure, swaggering, puppyish bounce at the start, but reduced to a dead-eyed, leaden ghost by the end – was truly harrowing.
They've walked for hours on end, displaced, really harrowing journeys.
