Sentence examples for harrowing portrait from inspiring English sources
Leroy Smith, whose favorite piece is Egon Schiele's harrowing "Portrait of Paris von Gütersloh," said, "I play little games in my head".
IN the second installment of "A Lion in the House," an intimate, often harrowing portrait of five children with cancer, 16-year-old Tim, in the midst of an up-and-down battle with Hodgkin's lymphoma, rides a roller coaster.
Combining sound, sense and physical gesture in a heartbreaking, at times harrowing, portrait of a soul in crisis, she gives, quite simply, one of the finest operatic performances of recent years.
But the suite of duets took too much time to make its points and reiterate them, particularly coming as it did after Ms. Steinman's "Closet," a relentlessly harrowing portrait of madness.
It is a tremendous and harrowing portrait, Akerman's voiceover caressing her mother's fragile shadow on screen.
A harrowing portrait, though one not without small moments of optimism, not least in the courage of the workers themselves.
Oddly, Sapphire uses her gifts with language to give us affecting and harrowing portraits of other people in this novel.
Even members of Congress were in at least some cases prevented from gaining entry, while attorneys and advocates for the detained offered harrowing portraits of life inside a broken system.
While "Juiced" strayed past the bounds of self-parody, I think Canseco may have unwittingly written one of the most harrowing portraits of the modern athlete.
Yet within less than a year, two established American novelists have drawn harrowing portraits of a post-apocalyptic America, across which their characters trudge in desperation to find a safer, healthier haven.
Trying to undo slavery before the war's end is a tightrope walk made all the more agonizing for the costly human toll that is anything but abstract for this president — or for Spielberg, whose body of work offers harrowing portraits of the appalling suffering of war.
