Sentence examples for harrowing words from inspiring English sources

Steve Nesbitt, NASA's public affairs officer at the time of the accident, is heard on the track saying the harrowing words: "Flight controllers here are looking very carefully at the situation.

As he admonishes John for his betrayal in "Nowhere Left to Run," his harrowing words send shivers down spines.

But like the best of all art, Iyer and Ladd have captured an experience too harrowing for words and given it life, and an unforgettably human one at that.

The music similarly eludes definition, flitting between styles and themes in a gleefully post-modern blur, advancing in a series of songwriting half steps that includes, at various points, nursery rhyme chanting, burned-out acid squelches, and harrowing spoken word.

I used the word "harrowing".

His lyrics have never held back a literary vocabulary that includes words like "arabesques," "harrowing" and "attrition".

The program notes for "The Essence of Ligeti," the exhilarating concert series of works by the Hungarian modernist master Gyorgy Ligeti, presented by the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center, begin by quoting the composer's sobering words on his harrowing youth: "I did not choose the tumults of my life.

As if those words aren't harrowing enough, Lord Stern last year stated that, "I got it wrong on climate change -- it's far, far worse".

Regular readers of this column might have noticed that words such as "bleak", "harrowing" and "unforgiving" crop up with regularity – usually as recommendations.

Writing the book was harrowing.

Many actors prefer to do what they're told rather than risking the consequences of asking a question, making a suggestion or "just saying no" to words and actions they find harrowing.