Sentence examples for harrowing fact from inspiring English sources
The melodrama of ballet, the harrowing fact that Madame and her dancers become stateless when the Bolsheviks seize power, the armed struggle of Puerto Ricans: These elements are inherently fascinating, but they must be grounded in a character's individual psychology to become real.
After watching Gore's documentary An Inconvenient Truth, Mazonson says he recognized a harrowing fact: "We are not on a sustainable trajectory as a species". At Dartmouth at the time, he studied environmental science and engineering focused on climate change, then joined the venture capital world focusing on cleantech companies.
And then there's this harrowing fact: 80percentt of all the gun deaths in the 23 wealthiest countries in the world are American deaths, and 87percentt of the children killed by guns in those nations are American kids.
BBC iPlayer Christian Bale shed the pounds for this harrowing fact-based drama about a US fighter pilot shot down during the Vietnam war.
This hauntingly moving film also reveals some harrowing facts.
All of this without even touching upon the harrowing facts about the deadly diseases being spread because of this daily reality for millions of women and their children in developing countries.
It has been deeply distressing, harrowing in fact – and that's for just the actors.
It might sound as if it could be harrowing – in fact, the whole thing is spectacularly funny.
"The facts are harrowing.
These facts are harrowing.
Among a range of testimonies, which ranged from harrowing to matter-of-fact, three people spoke of having contemplated suicide because of poverty – a woman who got into debt because she didn't qualify for benefits, another who was told she said made herself "intentionally homeless" because she fled an abusive partner, and a man who got into debt and felt unable to provide for his family.
