Sentence examples for is not harrowing from inspiring English sources

Though the ending is sad, it is not harrowing like some later Hardy novels.

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.

As Bosnian war stories go, this wasn't harrowing — particularly because a timely truce obviated the evacuation of Banja Luka — but I didn't think it sounded silly, because the upshot was that Tijana became, in her own words, "a hard-liner".

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".

Despite their genesis in violent events — among them, the atomic bombing of Hiroshima, the 1989 protests at Tiananmen Square in Beijing and the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan — the paintings are "not frenetic and they're not harrowing," said Peter Trippi, the editor of Fine Art Connoisseur magazine, who took part in a Guild Hall panel discussion on the exhibition last fall.

Hercules is not the harrowing Euripidean tragedy in which the hero slaughters his family in a fit of insanity, but an amiable comedy for all ages written by Helen Eastman.

What they told me was not just harrowing – like the woman who had been raped by rebels and consequently rejected by her husband and ostracised by her community – but also often hilarious – and always humbling.

As she tells her story, it is easy to forget that this is not just the harrowing tale of a human being but that of an elite athlete, an established world-class triple jumper who had already won a silver medal at the world championships in 1999 and finished fourth at the Sydney Olympic Games in 2000.