Sentence examples for harrowing material from inspiring English sources

Through the character of Dorrigo Evans, Flanagan makes imaginative use of some harrowing material, cleverly linking it to a poignant love story.

It was harrowing material for the child actor involved, but "as she comes from a happy, safe, loving family, we never had to worry that we were damaging her.

These scenes, and the scrapes Kaspar gets into as he wanders off-piste on his early missions, lighten the harrowing material to come.

Intercut with this harrowing material are home movies of Johnson's twin toddlers putting the lens cap back on her camera, and her mother, who has Alzheimer's, turning in surprise to say, "You caught me!," uncertain who this strange cameraperson might be.

The biographical material, harrowing in its litany of abuse, is disguised (not always smoothly) as patter between numbers.

It's harrowing, truthful stuff.

This is powerful material with harrowing real-life implications, all of which would soon be sublimated into the pervasive dread and misogyny of the postwar noir.

It's harrowing stuff.

The soil may need to be subsoiled or bottom-plowed, but in most cases, simply harrowing with a disc-harrow will loosen the soil and turn any plant material into it, leaving a smooth, clean soil bed for cultivating.

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.

When it comes to the material reality of Van Gogh's last days, this exhibition is harrowing.