Sentence examples for harrowing viewing from inspiring English sources
It makes for harrowing viewing.
The video makes for harrowing viewing.
Last year she signed up for ITV2's The Big Reunion, which made for harrowing viewing and failed to relaunch her career in the way she'd hoped.
The video, first obtained by the New York Times and filmed by a bystander, makes for harrowing viewing.
I called a woman who has documented an intimate and harrowing view of boys and girls driving badly, Jennifer Boyd, a Hartford filmmaker.
It's a largely autobiographical book about a Jewish boy growing up in a poor immigrant community in New York; it gives a harrowing view of tenement life, and it's told with a rich vernacular that renders Yiddish into English.
While the story evokes Hirokazu Kore-eda's "Nobody Knows" (2004), about some similarly abandoned children, Ms. Le Besco takes a cooler, considerably less harrowing view toward her subjects, underlining their playfulness and putative liberation, not victimization.
The novel is keenly observed — a lot of reporting seems to have gone into its writing — and succeeds in giving the reader a harrowing view of the elaborate social rules and rituals that inform prison life.
Mr. Rocha's experience provides perhaps the clearest and most harrowing view of a NASA safety culture that, the board says, must be fixed if the remaining shuttles are to continue flying.
Housing Problems (1934), sponsored by the Gas Light and Coke Company and directed by Anstey and Elton, presented a harrowing view of south London's slums: no one who has seen it can ever forget the sequence in which a housewife (who had never seen a film) talks about her daily battles with a malicious rat.
The story became "It's a Wonderful Life," a sub-Dickensian fable of despair and redemption, in which a bright and virtuous young man (James Stewart), sacrificing himself to the needs of his home town, is so frustrated and failure-prone that he's ready to jump off a bridge, only to be granted at the last moment a harrowing view of what life would have been like in his town if he had never existed.
