'harrowing impact' is a correct and usable phrase in written English.
You can use it when you want to talk about a severe or distressful effect. For example: The harrowing impact of the earthquake left the town devastated.
In my travels with PSI, a global health organisation on whose board I serve and that partners with both UKAID and the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, I learned exactly the harrowing impact the "controversy" around contraception has had on women, couples and families.
This is all the more disappointing in light of the harrowing impact of Mr. Lucas's last drama, "The Dying Gaul," also produced at the Vineyard and directed by Mr. Brokaw.
With the country still reeling from the harrowing impact of Hurricane Harvey in Texas, Wednesday night's "Daily Show" looked at one of the summer's ongoing controversies: Confederate monuments.
The heads of UNICEF and UNHCR and senior representatives of Mercy Corps, Save the Children and World Vision International came together for a joint visit to Lebanon, to draw attention to the harrowing impact of over three years of conflict on 5.5 million Syrian children living in Syria and as refugees in neighbouring countries.
The acting is terrific all round, with Dickie – so good recently in The Witch – increasingly resembling a female answer to Christian Bale, transforming herself body and soul for harrowing emotional impact.
They recommended a 28-day cap on the time people can be held in immigration detention, after hearing some harrowing evidence about the impact on detainees of being held for years, with no end in sight.
I have received harrowing accounts of the impact of these Israeli policies.
Florin Diacu tells the harrowing true stories of people impacted by these terrible events, and of the scientists racing against time to predict when the next big disaster will strike.
If this act could be performed as MacMillan originally intended, without the imperial padding, its impact would be even more harrowing.
The feature was harrowing to write but had a strong impact on readers: "I'm glad I was so brutally honest and open about the condition, as I had so many responses from women who had suffered similar experiences".
I wouldn't want to take anything away from Amour, because it is undeniably harrowing, an intimate, domestic horror movie of frightening impact.
