harrowing
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Playwright Aleshea Harris makes a bold cinematic debut with the screen adaptation of her Obie Award-winning play “Is God Is,” a harrowing and beautiful slice of surrealist neo-noir.
From Los Angeles Times • May 15, 2026
That Fastnet was a harrowing, heartbreaking one, as high seas from a late summer storm broke apart boats and capsized crews.
From The Wall Street Journal • May 7, 2026
Some of the victim's friends and family - many of them were wearing T Shirts in memory of the victim - had to leave the courtroom during the harrowing footage.
From BBC • May 6, 2026
The one lodged by Cile Steward’s parents came in February, and makes for harrowing reading.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 18, 2026
That was the harrowing story recounted in Twelve Years a Slave, Solomon Northup’s 1853 memoir made famous again by an award-winning film in 2013.
From "In the Shadow of Liberty" by Kenneth C. Davis
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