Sentence examples for harrowing sense from inspiring English sources

Ms. Nietvelt certainly gives us a harrowing sense of Agnes's struggle against death.

But though mainstream glory (not to mention movie stardom) lay ahead, he already had a sharp and harrowing sense of how success blurs the borders of identity and how image can devour creativity.

The orchestral song by Mahler that, accompanied by a black screen, opens "Le Genou d'Artemide" ("Artemis's Knee") suggests the full-throated romantic passion and harrowing sense of loss that is the movie's subject.

Although Mr. Mandanipour's literary games occasionally make this book read like a Charlie Kaufman movie script run amok, his novel leaves the reader with a harrowing sense of what it is like to live in Tehran under the mullahs' rule, and the myriad ways in which the Islamic government's strict edicts on everything from clothing to relationships between the sexes permeate daily life.

These songs were perfectly constructed pop songs, radio bangers, but they packed a harrowing sense of honest-to-god emotion.

Describing the inception of the event, Brooks recalled a specific instance in which he saw a group of local children on a playground get sprayed with toxic fungicides used by a Chiquita banana crop duster while on vacation in Costa Rica, filling him with a harrowing sense of Westerners' reckless disregard of the local Costa Rican community.

Working with the cinematographer Don Burgess, he sends the camera hurtling in and out of rooms, up and down hallways, and at one point right through the floor so that it comes out on the other side, pressed up against the ceiling: The freer the sense of movement, the more harrowing the sense of no escape.

And few films give so harrowing a sense of staring death in the face and so exhilarating a sense of coming back to tell the tale with a self-deprecating whimsy.

Rowan McNamara Charley Pride's Sunshiny Day Like the petrol fumes its co-protagonist inhales throughout this seductive but harrowing romantic drama, the sense of irony in the opening scene of Samson and Delilah is both harsh and intoxicating.

Herzogs harrowing adventure, with its Gallic sense of drama, romance and camaraderie, concludes with a stirring final line -- There are other Annapurnas in the lives of men -- that still inspires adventurers to answer the challenge of the mountains.

As if the all-consuming curse that drives the play isn't harrowing enough, it establishes the roots of Debby's sense of abandonment, intensified by the ghost of her half-sister, Deborah, who died in infancy during the Holocaust.