Sentence examples for would be harrowing from inspiring English sources

You might imagine that her story would be harrowing.

typically impaired a person's short-term memory — which in a college student approaching exams would be harrowing — but that the relatively mild C.T.E. in Thomas's hippocampus did not suggest severe memory problems, though that was possible.

There will certainly be more difficult assignments in the coming weeks as Leicester finish the season against Manchester United, Everton and Chelsea and at this stage, with an eight-point lead, it would be harrowing for them, to say the least, if this previously unremarkable club cannot end the most eccentric year of their lives in possession of the Premier League trophy.

Dr. Torrey said it was not clear whether allowing a mentally ill person to suffer a breakdown causes long-term damage, but he said a breakdown would surely be harrowing for Mr. Goldstein.

It just has to be harrowing.

Fighting your way through the Valley can be harrowing.

I would say, like most people, I'd encountered and enjoyed a bunch of Stephen King over the course of my life (I remember being enthralled by "Misery" while enduring a grueling, seven-hour bus ride in India that would have been harrowing had I not been so totally absorbed in my book).

Still, hearing the 36-year-old describe how she was "fully mentally prepped" to be raped by the male intruders, whom she thought would kill her, was harrowing.

She describes her experiences with a resolute commitment to detail; there is the brutal, visceral truth about her enforced labour in the camp – "I dug the ditches where the bodies of 50 distant relatives from Lodz would burn" – and there are harrowing stories of murdered children and savage violence.

Losing my job as a senior program officer at a nonprofit would be equally harrowing whether renting or owning, and besides, I was reducing my monthly outlays from when I had been a renter, to roughly $800 from about $900.

I never thought that life as a graduate student would be so harrowing.