It's harrowing almost beyond belief.
They had to witness, and relive, harrowing moments and work through feelings of guilt.
Chris Mogridge, 37, a developer from Oxford, Miss., said he swore off the event after last year, when he endured harrowing descents and a spent, empty feeling in his muscles.
But on the whole, this reminded me of Per Petterson's extraordinary novel Out Stealing Horses, both in its careful tone concealing harrowing depths of feeling and its exploration of the mystery that is one's father.
"There's a gaudy, gutsy bravery to Whitmouth," Alex Marwood writes, demonstrating a deep, warm feeling for the shabby seaside town where she sets her harrowing first novel, THE WICKED GIRLS (Penguin, paper, $16).
The programme for this year's international festival contains not one, but two performances of Schubert's Winterreise, which, given the harrowing emotions the work almost invariably generates, has the potential to produce a feeling of overkill.
She added, "In the twentieth century, the repellent, harrowing disease that is made the index of a superior sensitivity, the vehicle of 'spiritual' feelings and 'critical' discontent, is insanity".
