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harrowing

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It will seem crazy and oftentimes harrowing at first, but it slows down, and you find your head coach voice pretty quickly.

Vanessa Kirby’s performance was singled out for carrying “Pieces of a Woman,” a harrowing drama about a home birth.

It is one of the most harrowing accounts of the insurrection that has been made public to date — and a testament to just how devastating the event was to our democracy.

From Vox

In this episode, Finnegan, whose surfing memoir Barbarian Days won the Pulitzer Prize, shares one of his most harrowing experiences in the water.

Schaff later told a harrowing story of being trapped in the Capitol as rioters broke in.

As the year draws to a close, these goals remain unfulfilled and the news from CAR continues to be harrowing.

She also tracks his deteriorating health through the harrowing videos of the captives regularly released by the Nusra Front.

His harrowing escape from Vienna when Hitler took Austria in March 1938 is dramatically chronicled in his memoirs.

On Thursday, Detective Superintendent McDonald described his account as “harrowing” and compelling.

Court painter to the Spanish Crown, he is perhaps best known for his harrowing Disasters of War series.

Harrowing makes finer the lumps near the surface, and mixes the fertilizer deeper than a rake can be used.

Mike and Joe would finish harrowing the potato field and begin planting.

Reaching my farm at eight, I found Joe harrowing in manure on the garden and Mike sowing peas.

There is nothing either harrowing or cabalistic in the place; and you can see nothing but two forms, a screen, and a crucifix.

At last the gangway was removed, and a kind of quietness fell upon the crowd, waiting for the next harrowing sensation.

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On this page you'll find 52 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to harrowing, such as: agonizing, chilling, distressing, disturbing, excruciating, and heartbreaking.

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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