Sentence examples for harrowing episode from inspiring English sources

"Neruda," an intoxicating puzzle of a movie directed by Pablo Larraín, chronicles a strange, harrowing episode from the late 1940s, when the Chilean government's crackdown on communism drove the great poet and politician Pablo Neruda underground.

A more harrowing episode occurred in 2010.

She is used, abused and in one harrowing episode raped by a Republican student called Barry.

Mr. Brunet, 30, appeared in an especially harrowing episode of the show.

Barnes' words provided a considerate and accurate account of a harrowing episode.

Which is when it suddenly dawned on me one night after a particularly harrowing episode.

Neighbors shared tearful embraces and recounted harrowing episodes of riding out the storm.

In telling that story, the author wanders, like a good conversationalist, into absorbing asides about harrowing episodes in his own past, about the natural history of Alaska, about hardy fellow-eccentrics he has known.

Many top Cuban professionals, such as Los Angeles Dodgers outfielder Yasiel Puig — who left the island to come to the U.S. under the previous MLB rules requiring players to establish residency in another country — have endured harrowing episodes involving smugglers and human traffickers.

The Cuban missile crisis was one of the most harrowing episodes of the cold war.

The 1915 lynching of Leo Frank remains one of the most harrowing episodes in the history of the American South.