Sentence examples for harrowing things from inspiring English sources

Not only is she extremely busy being in very many television dramas, but also her characters always have exceedingly harrowing things happen to them.

This small gift, coming as it does after the harrowing things he has experienced, is transmuted into an almost miraculous event, and his giddiness at the prospect of satiety is palpable.

To say the least, the last chapter asks some pretty harrowing things of Joel, at the time "controlled" by the player.

He wanted to savor time, to abstract himself from the little harrowing things that the day presented.

Andrzej Wajda's "Katyn" is one of the most harrowing things I have ever seen (reviewed here in The Economist).

You create some harrowing things for them and, yes, it's terrifying but it didn't actually happen.

But then what was the most harrowing thing about Totallygate?

What happened to my mother in the 1950s — insulin shock therapy, electric shock treatment, hospitalization in harrowing wards; things about which she could never speak without a shudder — were of that time.

Just because you showed each other your tits in the bogs and she told you that really harrowing story about that thing that happened at her first school disco, it doesn't mean you are BFFs.

In normal circumstances, the possibility of witnessing such harrowing moments is one of things that prompts people to watch Presidential debates.

Other nights, other nightmares: "Gangs of Iraq," on Tuesday, is a "Frontline" documentary that in harrowing detail reveals, among other things, that the administration's goal of handing over the reins of war and peacekeeping to Iraqi soldiers and police officers is elusive at best.