How To Use Harrowing In A Sentence
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But it must be open to question whether such a level of support can be sustained if there are serious military reverses and a consequent daily diet of harrowing television pictures.
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Pasture lands and meadow lands are often greatly improved by replowing and harrowing in order to break up the turf that forms and to admit air more freely into the soil.
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Trash and harrowingly low budgets are the point of a Versus movie, as the genre's pioneers well knew back when they were churning out Abbott And Costello Meet Frankenstein/The Invisible Man/The Mummy.
Cowboys & Aliens: the Versus movie without Versus in its name
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After a particularly harrowing battle where the squad is able to overcome a Nazi ambush Zab is asked about what happened and can barely remember the event.
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Mid morning a young girl arrives after a harrowing journey, bewildered by her new surroundings.
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What he paints is a harrowing image of Hell.
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This harrowing film pieces the story together.
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The Doctor's harrowing account of the orthopaedic centres for polio and landmine victims was punctuated with the earthy humour of the people he deals with.
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After a very harrowing landing (and much vomit in the cabin of the plane I'm sure) that comes up just a few feet short of the overpass, he pops an emergency hatch and amscrays.
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Throughout questioning, more harrowing details came to light.
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Never thought of _death_, or even looked upon it, for mother told us there was no need of harrowing up our feelings -- it would come soon enough, she said; and to me, who hoped to live so long, it has come _too soon_ -- all too soon; "and the hot tears rained through the transparent fingers, clasped so convulsively over her face.
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This harrowing film pieces the story together.
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A future presidential candidate might have participated in harrowing door-to-door sweeps during the bloody fight for Fallujah last month.
December 2004
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The series includes intriguing rarities, such as "Jean's Return" ("Le retour de Jean"), Clouzot's harrowing contribution to the omnibus film "Return to Life" ("Retour à la vie," 1949), in which a concentration-camp survivor hides, interrogates and tortures a Nazi war criminal.
A French Director Ripe for Rediscovery
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The film is a harrowing tale about a woman who wakes up to find her husband dead.
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A harrowing account of an unfinished documentary about the liberation of concentration camps.
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We would now ask that everyone respects our need for privacy at this harrowing time.
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The harrowing footage showed her being carried to hospital by a distraught companion.
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Sinbad, along with singer Sheryl Crow, was on that 1996 trip to Bosnia that Clinton has described as a harrowing international experience that makes her tested and ready to answer a 3 a.m. phone call at the White House on day one, a claim for which she's taking much grief on the campaign trail.
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The harrowing ordeal was to last two hours.
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This alternately harrowing and touching story of tragedy and hope has been impressing viewers and critics for years, and the prospect of witnessing this true-life horror story on the big screen is cause for excitement.
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It keeps pounding away, with one harrowing and horrifying image after another.
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In writing this moving, harrowing account he has done them a noble service.
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Darker and more harrowing is Saved starring Scottish veterans Irene McCallum and Edith McArthur in a poignant tale of a soft-hearted young nurse on a dementia ward.
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But "genteel" is not a word you'd choose; "harrowing" seems more apt.
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Both the semi-autobiographical Denisovich and the non-ficiton Archipelago described Gulag life in harrowing detail, and forced the West to finally acknowledge the grave human rights abuses perpetrated inside Stalin’s brutal work camps, which at their peak housed more than two million prisoners.
Russian Gulags: Then and Now | Disinformation
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Famously banned from the BBC's Play for Today slot in the 1970s, Clarke's harrowing drama about life inside a borstal was remade two years later as an equally notorious film.
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Shelter, and the usual rude accommodation, supplemented on this occasion by a wandering luti and his vicious-looking baboon, as also a company of riotous charvadars, who insist on singing accompaniments to the luti's soul-harrowing tom-toming till after midnight, are obtained at the caravansarai of Deh Mollah.
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The harrowing footage showed her being carried to hospital by a distraught companion.
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For many women, the harrowing prospect of giving evidence in a rape case can be too much to bear.
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But the harrowing psychological investigation he embarks upon is told seemingly without effort, through words that intoxicate, scenes that enrapture, and ideas that ensnare.
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But sweeping narrative is not Leaf's style; instead, she represents incisive moments, many of them funny, some harrowing, and all equally free of portent and nostalgia.
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Coat an already harrowing scene with live music and well, we're talking out-and-out melodrama, and you definitely don't want that.
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He has gone through a harrowing time and is looking forward to getting his career back on track.
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Lou, it turns out, was the only fatality of the explosion, harrowingly replayed in flashback as Tommy fills out the paperwork.
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The shipwreck was a harrowing experience.
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Eerie and harrowing, the film seethes with barely suppressed ferocity.
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But the charges they faced - and the harrowing details that emerged yesterday - showed it was anything but.
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It was a miserable, harrowing experience for those involved.
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Alas, the second film is an absolutely harrowing tale of torture and dismemberment.
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The tragedy and drama of this music have rarely been so harrowingly delivered on disc.
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What he paints is a harrowing image of Hell.
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He has gone through a harrowing time and is looking forward to getting his career back on track.
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He narrated the harrowing experience at length and focused on the "dastardliness of the terrorists who killed the Jewish parents of an infant.
Shahnaz Taplin-Chinoy: Peace #1 Issue in the World Today: Pakistan & Palestine -- Parallel Pivots in the Peace Paradigm
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Another satisfactory method is to broadcast the seed followed by a shallow disking or harrowing and cultipacking.
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This gimlet-eyed memoir is Joan Didion's meticulous chronicle of the harrowing year following the death of her husband of 40 years, the writer John Gregory Dunne, who died of a heart attack at their dinner table.
Deathless Accounts Of Mourning
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Makhmalbaf adapts the volatile terrain to his story, such as in a harrowing and memorable scene set in a medical camp populated by limbless mine explosion victims.
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For these men to even admit they have been hit by their wives is harrowing, never mind having to seek help from the police or a woman solicitor.
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On that same trip, local residents talked about a harrowing incident in Hetian.
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Sava Sekulic had a hard and harrowing life and faced continual rejection in his struggle as an artist.
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To understand hoodoo curses and cures, she had to undergo harrowing initiation rituals, which she described in ‘Mules and Men’.
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When performed live this song was often preluded by descriptions of the harrowing experience many faced simply trying to find a tolerant and peaceful home, away from their places of birth.
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When 10 September dawned for the crew of the seaplane, so did the prospects for an end to their harrowing journey.
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The movie ends with a harrowing scene of the father digging up his son's coffin, only to discover a piece of wood inside the box.
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No 2 is unrelievedly harrowing, written when he was a sick man, and sometimes dismissed as a failure.
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I mostly watched it through my fingers, as it's one of the most harrowing films I've ever seen.
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Watch victim's harrowing account of crash online.
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Of course, you only "build awareness" by depicting events with some degree of accuracy, which is why the soaps often proudly announce that they collaborated closely with charities to ensure that Steve McFadden's portrayal of the dark spiral of addiction would be as harrowingly authentic as possible, especially the bit where he smashed through a door like Jack Nicholson in The Shining and burned the Queen Vic to the ground.
Charlie Brooker | Complaining about the lack of realism in EastEnders is like moaning that Monster Munch crisps don't taste of monsters
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Throughout questioning, more harrowing details came to light.
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Dressed in a blue check shirt, blue trousers and a green jumper, he told reporters of his harrowing experience.
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Sitting ringside supporting a loved one can be a harrowing experience.
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The anxieties of a society traditionally ill-disposed to taxation in general and new forms of taxation in particular made the task of the Treasury and the Committee of Ways and Means increasingly harrowing.
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Dozens of groups such as The Truth About Pit Bulls counter what they call pit bull propagandists with harrowing tales and examples of brutality.
Pulling pit bulls' image out of the pits
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It made for harrowing listening, but it was important to humanise the dead.
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He finds talking about his fractured upbringing harrowing and there is a palpable air of sadness about him.
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For this is not simply a ‘message’ play, but a harrowing account of one family's trauma that rings horribly true.
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Darker and more harrowing is Saved starring Scottish veterans Irene McCallum and Edith McArthur in a poignant tale of a soft-hearted young nurse on a dementia ward.
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The film is a harrowing tale about a woman who wakes up to find her husband dead.
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There is a harrowing moment when each middle-class families first starts to undertand that its gilt-edged securities and War Loan will never recover.
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It will be by turn harrowing, hopeful and darkly humorous.
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The contents were so harrowing that even tabloid newspapers declined to print the full details.
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The scars on his arms and his disfigured hands tell their own harrowing tale.
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But this harrowing story recounts a life endured with stoicism.
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Traveling back in time 4,000 years, it plunges unwitting riders into a harrowing journey through ancient Egypt and a confrontation with an animatronic version of the mummy Imhotep, notorious Keeper of the Dead.
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Despite his harrowing moments, Jennings said he never thought about leaving the navy.
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It was rather a harrowing scene and it grew more frightful the more the clouds rolled in.
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And he recounts harrowing journeys by dugout canoe and prau, and battles with fever and isolation - a physically and intellectually adventurous life that deserves to be better known.
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Pittard can be harrowingly wise about the melancholy process of growing up, of moving from the horny days of high school to the burden of protecting our own children.
A missing girl's long shadow
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Scott also plays with lenses, camera speed and some excellent special effects to heighten the impact of the harrowing fight scenes.
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He sits in on interviews which can last up to seven hours and can be harrowing if the refugees have had traumatic experiences.
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Journal of the Dead is a refreshing take on the dubiety of justified killing and a harrowing story.
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This harrowing film is not easy viewing.
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But 19-year-old model Saffron Domini needed little persuasion to appear in a harrowing film about racism and violence.
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The harrowing scenes of grief at the funerals of the young victims were a dreadful reminder of the complacency that placed safety in second place to budgeting for so long.
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As harrowing as this discovery was, Byrne took some comfort in it since it offered an explanation for Alice's mental problems.
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Watch victim's harrowing account of crash online.
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It will be by turn harrowing, hopeful and darkly humorous.
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Less harrowing is Jo Brand On Kissing Tue, 9pm, BBC4, in which the stand-up grumps her way through an investigation into the history, etiquette and cultural significance of smooching.
It's a good week for … Romance
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His art at its most affecting projects a harrowing instability.
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The film doesn't stint on the harrowing details of families wrenched apart.
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There were 100 people there and almost all of them had really harrowing tales to tell.
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He befriends a survivor and teases from him a harrowing survival story.
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It's an uncomplaining attitude to life common to poor societies and one that came back to me last week as the harrowing scenes from the Pakistani earthquake unfolded on our TV screens.
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We've seen harrowing pictures of people left in corridors and on makeshift beds.
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This 1897 story harrowingly captures the nastiness, brutishness, and shortness of life in a village of the time.
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Well I suppose at once extremely harrowing to give the evidence but in many ways extremely cathartic to do so.
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Still, being on the business end of a med student's first exam can be harrowing , according to this dispatch from a Slate reporter.
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But "genteel" is not a word you'd choose; "harrowing" seems more apt.
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Their tales are harrowing, with women suffering permanent injuries.
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Reporting a rape remains a strenuous and harrowing experience, however, and it is likely to continue as an underreported offence.
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He befriends a survivor and teases from him a harrowing survival story.
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Their tales are harrowing, with women suffering permanent injuries.
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Robert first shot to prominence when he landed a part in Song for a Raggy Boy, the harrowing story about boys sent to a brutal 1930s reformatory school.
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London at the time was a curious mixture of ostentatious wealth hiding harrowing poverty.
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For many women, the harrowing prospect of giving evidence in a rape case can be too much to bear.
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Perhaps that's not a recommendation, but imagine how harrowing your life would be if you had a disorder that meant you were unexpectedly yanked from the present time into some other time during your lifespan, regardless of your present situation?
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Reports of great white shark encounters with humans have been abundant this summer, with a few harrowing incidents of sharks circling tourist and fishing boats yielding dramatic images.
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Entering the Auburn campus had been difficult and harrowing, and Franklin still had to register for classes.
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Survivors described their harrowing ordeal to reporters.
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And this is where this already gritty film becomes chillingly harrowing.
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The film accompanies the men on their harrowing search, as they increasingly question their mission.
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Halle Shilling, who was attacked in the park two weeks after Levy disappeared, is to testify today, Haines said, and will recall her harrowing attack.
Open statements begin in Chandra Levy trial
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The program – described as a “harrowing hour” – exhibits three separate shark attacks: the first when a great white breaks through a shark cage, trapping a diver inside; second, a former Navy seal is attacked in shallow waters and third a bull shark happens upon a spearfishing trip in the Bahamas.
Global Voices in English » Global: The push to boycott Shark Week
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It keeps pounding away, with one harrowing and horrifying image after another.
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Publicity of this kind must be very harrowing for a normal, everyday woman going about her business.
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But the charges they faced - and the harrowing details that emerged yesterday - showed it was anything but.
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As you can see, there are a variety of harrowing issues that take place off the ice when a player is traded from one team to another and must travel from one city to another.
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Later, they broke down in tears as the four-week trial, which has revealed harrowing evidence, came to a close.
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Some weeks earlier they had prepared the garden carefully, plowing and sweetening the dirt with fireplace ashes and manure from the barn and then harrowing the cloddy ground, Ruby driving the horse while Ada rode the drag to add weight.
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TransCanada's spokesman, Terry Cunha, emphasized that in neither this, nor in any other case, is the company seeking to seize property -- even though the legal process is known rather harrowingly as "condemnation.
Landowners Challenge TransCanada's Keystone Pipeline
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They have harrowing tales to tell.
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The nephew of Anjelica Huston — and grandson of John Huston — made a harrowingly brilliant debut on the Halloween-night episode of HBO's sprawling gangster drama as Richard Harrow, a disfigured sniper who joined forces with fellow World War I veteran Jimmy Darmody (Michael Pitt) in Chicago.
Cheers & Jeers: Boardwalk Empire's Man in the Iron Mask
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It is a harrowing yet unsentimental account of his childhood.
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Ethiopia, where 10 to 14 million people now face famine, is also going through a harrowing experience.
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This is a harrowing tale of poverty and class divide in Scotland.
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Escape training can be a harrowing experience especially for those who are claustrophobic.
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Facing dangerous swells and harrowing rocks, Freeman maneuvered the Coast Guard vessel close enough to the disabled freighter to successfully help rescue all the crew.
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Every day the truckers risk their lives and tackling the frozen roads north of the Arctic Circle is a unique and harrowing experience, no matter who the driver is.
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Set in Edwardian London, the movie starts off with Wendy who narrates harrowing tales of swordplay and Captain Hook, who fears nothing but a ticking clock.
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EARTH MONTAGE: All the planet's technological civilisations are brought to their knees in a series of iconic locations: the London Eye spins up until its pods fly off; the advertising displays in Times Square show nothing but goatse. cx; in Tokyo, a photocopier spits out a string of sausages a mile long, drowning an office full of panicking salarymen and office ladies over the course of five harrowing minutes (shown in real time).
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These are sparse, harrowingly simple and direct, noun-intensive, and spiritually unsettling poems.
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The harrowing sequence at El Morro prison carries us into a squalor that would be hellish, but for the fact that Arenas is embosomed by his fellow inmates as the only one who can write their letters.
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The batteries in the gameboy thing was so convoluted -- I'm playing with my daughter's gameboy (why??) but it's out of batteries (huh?) but I have some extra in my car (who does that??) so can you come help me put them in (how harrowing is replacing batteries? even a dumb kid would wonder why an adult with functioning hands would need help for this).
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This harrowing film pieces the story together.
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It's a harrowing bit of wit, a chunk of coal-black comedy that's extremely well handled.
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The scenes in the US last week were deeply harrowing and distressing.
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The committee has heard a number of submissions, some of which were harrowing.
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The film shows the harrowing reality behind the newspaper hysteria over ‘bogus’ refugees.
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Often there's a harrowing story of how violence has been bred into them through bad parenting.
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It wasn't so much fun imagining loosing her senses, and she refers to the imaginary loss of her eyesight and hearing as "harrowing.
Actress Eva Green's Perfect Sense of Character
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He had witnessed harrowing scenes after the tsunami that had caused him to suffer from flashbacks.
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The story twists into harrowing territory and asks complex moral questions.
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These were harrowing occasions since most of those present were, almost by definition, in advanced stages of chronic industrial disease.
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As harrowing as these scenes may be, they fail to excite the same level of discomfort as the taciturn Brady who glares blankly into the audience.
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Miriam, unable to endure this harrowing sight a moment longer, had fled from the tiger house.
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This is a harrowing tale of poverty and class divide in Scotland.
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All the harrowing cruelties and separations which attend the rending asunder of families and the sale of slaves, were enacted under the eyes of the youthful philanthropist, and in a burning article he denounced the inter-State slave-trade as piracy, and piracy of an aggravated and cruel kind, inasmuch as those born and educated in civilized and Christianized society have more sensibility to feel the evils thus inflicted than imbruted savages.
History of the Negro Race in America from 1619 to 1880. Vol. 2 (of 2) Negroes as Slaves, as Soldiers, and as Citizens
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They have told of the harrowing process of trying to wean themselves off a drug considered more addictive than heroin.
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Scott also plays with lenses, camera speed and some excellent special effects to heighten the impact of the harrowing fight scenes.
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What she went through had to have been harrowing.
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For many women, the harrowing prospect of giving evidence in a rape case can be too much to bear.
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Arab Americans who came forward to testify at the hearing told equally harrowing tales of harassment.
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I now propose to bring together a series of facts specially elucidative of the harrowing theme.
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He had witnessed harrowing scenes after the tsunami that had caused him to suffer from flashbacks.
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Laboratory analysis revealed that the infected brain tissue was a harrowing cesspool of infectious bacteria that included Streptococcus, Peptostreptococcus, Actinomyces and Eikenella.
Dr. Douglas Fields: Tongue Piercings Could Lead to Severe Brain Infections
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Chekhov's short story ‘Peasants' harrowingly captures the nastiness, brutishness and shortness of life in a village of the time.
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We've seen harrowing pictures of people left in corridors and on makeshift beds.
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As I could not believe him to be beyond the reach of pity, I explained my method to him, describing as harrowingly as I could the joy of those first few moments after the declaration of peace.
Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 153, November 14, 1917
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They call the Kentucky Derby the most exciting two minutes in sports, but it also contains the most bizarre, fascinating and harrowing millisecond—the moment the steel starting gates pop open and release 20 half-mad, inexperienced thoroughbreds that zoom to 30 miles per hour in just a couple of strides.
The Most Critical Two Seconds in Sports
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Meanwhile, the scarred veteran Inman is experiencing his own harrowing, perilous odyssey as the Civil War rages on.
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The harrowing account of how the corporal was wounded reduced many in the audience to tears.
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Suggestive of a prison cell, the work also hints at a harrowing, existentialist void.
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It was harrowing to watch, and must have been truly terrible to witness.
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Members of Harvard and Dartmouth's mountaineering clubs claimed many of North America's most difficult first ascents, and for years upper-class British climbers deemed it unsporting to use pitons, or iron spikes, on even the most harrowing verticals.
The Gentleman Adventurer
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Often there's a harrowing story of how violence has been bred into them through bad parenting.
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Both apparently came through the harrowing incident unscathed.
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Defining a protest song as that "which addresses a political issue in a way which aligns itself with the underdog," Dorian Lynskey's book begins with the first time protest met pop: Billie Holiday driving the faint of heart out of Café Society in Greenwich Village in 1939 with the harrowing antilynching ballad "Strange Fruit.
Angry Howls, Righteous Beats
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They tell their stories in alternating chapters, creating a harrowing narrative of two captivities.
A marriage held hostage by the Taliban
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He invests Reznik with a humanity, a fragility that makes for some truly harrowing moments.
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On the subject of Betty's harrowing death, again he seems to miss the point.
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The reports he made from the prison visits are harrowing.
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It is a harrowing yet unsentimental account of his childhood.
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But this harrowing story recounts a life endured with stoicism.
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For many women, the harrowing prospect of giving evidence in a rape case can be too much to bear.
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This is a harrowing play made all the more poignant by its understatement.
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She followed that with BBC1's excellent, harrowing drama about the Ipswich murders, Five Women, and even in Misfits, despite the zingy humour look out for Socha chewing on the word "brunch" in this season's opener, there's a sadness to her character.
Lauren Socha: the Misfit who made it
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The letter unarriving, Which brings us to our knees, Contains a power harrowing-- The stuff of comedies.
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As brilliantly demonstrated in Jeff James's assured revival at The Print Room, in Bayswater, there's not a word wasted in this quietly harrowing portrait of a high-ranking official in an unnamed autocratic state conducting a series of sinister, sadistic "chats" with three detained and abused members of the same family: husband, wife and child.
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He was able to get quality source images under harrowing circumstances where most of us would scarcely be capable of operating a camera, let alone a cumbersome plate camera on a tripod.
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She did not seem to flinch from the subject, though she portrayed it harrowingly.
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There have been harrowing stories of some of the few survivors still alive.
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And this is where this already gritty film becomes chillingly harrowing.
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He finds talking about his fractured upbringing harrowing and there is a palpable air of sadness about him.
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A harrowingly metaphorical building, the Jewish Museum exemplifies the preoccupation with symbolism in Berlin's new architecture.
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After a few horrid years, investors seem to have become hardened to all but the most harrowing news.
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After that sweeping overview, the gospel reading homes in on the harrowing story of the Passion.
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The story twists into harrowing territory and asks complex moral questions.
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These black periods must have been harrowing in the extreme, but were borne with great fortitude and courage.
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At dinner parties during the rest of the year, they vie to one-up each other with stories of malaria, harrowing airplane flights and close calls with venomous snakes in what most of their compatriots would regard as Third World hell-holes.
For Italians, Summer Starts at the Beach
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It was a harrowing din, a cascade of furious voices merged into a single pulsating shout.
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Drama based on a harrowing true story.
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Kafka learned Kleist’s lesson about the anxiety created by intricate hypotaxis and the suspense of waiting for the verb to drop like the headsman’s ax at the end of a long and harrowing sentence.
The Metamorphosis, in The Penal Colony,and Other Stories
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Since the harrowing scene with Elanor, he'd been unable to settle down even for a moment.
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In writing this moving, harrowing account he has done them a noble service.
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The jury had heard harrowing and distressing evidence about the shooting.
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At the Lillehammer school, Siobhán was the first Irishwoman to drive a bobsleigh and recalls it as a harrowing experience, to say the least!
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As if the harrowing play weren't strong enough on its own, he not only adds multiple jazz interludes with a piano-and-horn trio and several singers, he also swamps it in Japanese theatrical techniques: Black-garbed stagehands move furniture and dispense props as in bunraku marionette theater.
French 'Streetcar' Takes a Detour Via Japan
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The film is harrowing exploration of moral, spiritual and emotional bankruptcy.
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These depressions include plough furrows running at right angles to the dominant slope direction or irregularities left after harrowing.
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We've seen harrowing pictures of people left in corridors and on makeshift beds.
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