Sentence examples for make harrowing from inspiring English sources

The 911 tapes make harrowing listening.

There are no official records for the numbers of women and children working in prostitution, but estimates make harrowing reading with some saying that between 300,000 and 500,000 prostitutes in India are children, i.e., 40% of the industry.

Wetherell's plane was forced to make harrowing emergency landings both times.

Mourning the fate of children in war, with chilling contemporary echoes, they make harrowing listening: "Death came out of the sky/ In the bright afternoon".

"Selznick was at once a brilliant man and an unmitigated interfering nuisance," Charles Higham wrote in these pages in 1972, and his memos "make harrowing reading".

WAR stories are necessarily gruesome, but by any standards Arkady Babchenko's first-hand account of Russia's wars in the breakaway province of Chechnya makes harrowing reading.

The unraveling of the Garis family makes harrowing reading.

These two women, like most defectors from the North, made harrowing journeys to get to South Korea.

One woman had made harrowing claims of being harassed and sexually assaulted by her boyfriend, who, she said, had a gun hidden.

The witness statement given by Mr Polanski's victim still makes harrowing reading (though she has long since settled with him in a civil-law suit, and has supported his efforts to close the case).

The 30-page document makes harrowing reading, with tales of up to 50,000 chickens crammed in a dark, airless shed, pumped up by a high-protein diet and suffering from 'heat stress' and respiratory problems caused by 'aerial contaminants'.