Sentence examples for with a harrowing effect from inspiring English sources

Something is drawn out of us with a harrowing effect, which Friedrich's use of color nudges toward intoxication.

That injury could have a harrowing domino effect on the rest of the offense.

In the influential 9th-century apocalypse, Ardā Wirāz Nāmag, an Iranian priest takes a visionary tour of these otherworldly realms and returns with a harrowing report; the torments of hell, even if not eternal, are dreadful enough to have a powerful deterrent effect.

My downward glance was met with a harrowing scene: my right foot, raised in midstep, clad only in a sock.

It starts with a harrowing account of one of her escape attempts, after which she was recaptured.

Eternity, a lesbian, fond of black lipstick and spiked bracelets, with a harrowing personal history.

Then, in old age, he showed himself with a harrowing dignity.

Sexton begins her new book with a harrowing scene of herself at 44, slitting her veins with a paring knife in the bathtub while her sons sleep nearby.

John Lennon (1970) Recommended by: Paul Landon and Gary Hunter We start on a bittersweet note or, as reader Gary Hunter says, with a "harrowing, brilliant song".

Cale treats the narrator's self-destruction as inevitable, a death march that climaxes with a harrowing scream.

That entirely depends on the Academy's stomach for a real-life story of survival against the odds with a harrowing and grisly resolution.