Sentence examples for is both harrowing from inspiring English sources
As fairy tale, O'Brien's novel is both harrowing and absurdly funny: what will this provincial community make of the glamorous impostor who says he is from Montenegro?
The resulting work is both harrowing and funny, suggesting how much Beckett's absurdity is rooted in real life.
The hotel clash is both harrowing and funny, a trip to the edge of despair and dissolution taken by people whose anger and wit never run out.
The topic is often considered the great taboo for children's literature, something too troubling to tackle head on, but White manages to create a death scene that is both harrowing and redemptive.
Cherie's story is both harrowing and glorious, and she came out the other side of the zeitgeist with her body and soul intact.
MacFarquhar focuses on her subjects' struggles and doubts as well as the discomfort they can arouse in people, resulting in portraits that are both harrowing and humbling.
The Vietnam sequences, especially one rendered as a phantasmagorical flashback, are both harrowing and lyrical.
Unlike Rimbaud, he didn't abandon his art after a few years; he worked to the end, devoting his last energies to a series of paintings, drawings and prints in which he assumed the different poses of the desperate occupants of Géricault's great "Raft of the Medusa," substituting his ravaged, bloated body for their emaciated ones with results that were both harrowing and parodic.
His descriptions of what it was like to fly 60 bombing missions over Europe are both harrowing and utterly relaxed, even amusing — this is, after all, the man who introduced us to Yossarian and Major Major and Hungry Joe.
What is so fascinating about The Shadow of What We Were is how it is both a harrowing story of Pinochet's regime and an absolutely charming fable of survival and justice.
Inspired by Mr. Needham's research into Alzheimer's disease, this brilliantly orchestrated score is both dreamy and harrowing.
