Sentence examples for not harrowing from inspiring English sources

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

Mont Tremblant has a 2,131-foot 2,131-footrop, and there are some steep, if not harrowing, biking trails.

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.

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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".

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.

The book is dedicated to "Victoria - without whom, nothing", and the tender but unsentimental way Gray records his dependence on her support is one of the elements that make Coda a not unrelievedly harrowing book.

Thankfully, the simulator wasn't too harrowing.

It wasn't the harrowing film's only honour of the evening – there was a surprise in the best adapted screenplay category when Geoffrey Fletcher snatched it from the teeth of An Education's Nick Hornby and Armando Iannucci's In the Loop team.

She captures the stark difficulty of not repressing the harrowing specter of a harsh upbringing but instead integrating her memories into the greater tapestry of her adult life.

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