Sentences with phrase «a harrowing story»

He shared the harrowing story of being in a near plane crash and striking a deal with God.

IT was 2007 when Hancock Prospecting chairman and director Gina Rinehart read a harrowing story about Cambodian prostitution and sex slavery.

Let's say we are in a room listening to the harrowing stories of war rape victims.

Have you ever been flipping through the channels on a random Saturday afternoon, stumbled upon Shawshank Redemption on basic cable and spent the next two hours watching the harrowing story of Andy Dufresne?

Harrowing stories of abuse without any consequences for the abusers abound!

In this amazing book, she tells the harrowing story of her imprisonment.

As she shared her harrowing story, she talked about the small victories over the years following her accident, as her body has slowly healed.

She posted a photo of the crib set - up for Caleb and his twin sister Libby to Facebook, along with a pretty harrowing story that's now going viral.

He shares his harrowing story of abuse and recovery in his memoir, Basketball Junkie, as well as in numerous interviews throughout the Emmy nominated ESPN Films documentary Unguarded, of which he is the subject.

«Mrs Cameron said: «As a mother, it is horrifying to hear the harrowing stories from the children I met today.

During a select committee hearing on Tuesday, I listened carefully as Marissa Begonia from the Voice of Domestic Workers described a harrowing story of how one of her members died after being too worried to seek medical help for a persistent cough.

Starting with a harrowing story about hikers caught in a thunderstorm atop a mountain in California's Sequoia National Park, Ornes describes what scientists have learned about the behavior of lightning and what they are still struggling to understand.

In one of the most harrowing stories of shipwreck and survival in recent memory, a young Deborah Kiley (she's now 49) escaped dehydration, hypothermia, and sharks for five days on a small rubber dinghy in the Atlantic Ocean.

«I would read just a series of harrowing stories from people who experience unquestionably abusive acts from inside their research team, and the next entry on the survey would be somebody telling me that this survey was stupid and that this doesn't happen,» Hinde said in an interview.

The following three women know from experience, and share their harrowing stories.

The journalist is imbued with the harrowing story and feels sorry for Ling.

The harrowing story of twins who were separated at birth and married each other without realising they were brother and sister was revealed today.

Johnny Depp The harrowing story of twins who were separated at birth and married each other without realising they were brother and sister was revealed today.

Despite the harrowing stories that fill the film from start to finish, Dreamcatcher is not hopeless.

The Rider Brady Jandreau, a Lakota cowboy from South Dakota, enacts a version of his own harrowing story of loss and recovery in writer - director Chloé Zhao's stunningly lyrical western, a seamless and deeply moving blend of narrative and documentary film techniques.

To accurately depict the genocide, Jolie hired Cambodian actors and gathered hundreds of survivors to tell and re-create their harrowing stories.

After recounting their harrowing stories of braving the hoards of teenage girls at their respective screenings, Kevin and Neil take a trip to Planet 51 then are Blind Sided by Precious before laying down a Fat Guy Five about awesome vampire / werewolf movies (hint: neither Twilight film makes the list).

I spoke with two of the actors behind the most sinister figures in this harrowing story.

Earlier in the night, Oprah paid tribute to Recy Taylor and in case you'd like to read more about her, here's a piece from last month about a powerful documentary telling her harrowing story:

I'm surprised that Room didn't appear on more of our critics» lists; I thought it was an emotionally effective, absolutely harrowing story that was well made and well acted.

But he also tells a harrowing story of online harassment after a family tragedy, as well as a community of people who are literally allergic to electromagnetism and must be isolated from all computers and devices.

An eerie and sometimes harrowing story of disgraced Catholic priests confined to a seaside home, the movie overtly references the pedophilia scandals that have rocked the Church internationally, but the story also serves as a sly metaphor for the dictatorial Pinochet regime of the 1970s, which Larraín's parents supported.

Director Matthew Heineman tells their harrowing story in this gripping, eye - opening documentary.

Like the victims it introduces, this movie is no «victim», and audiences will be pleasantly surprised by their ability to laugh in the face of what is a harrowing story.

«Everest» should be a harrowing story about survival, ambition and the human spirit, but it's really none of those things, only ever scratching the surface of the story.

It's a harrowing story, expertly told by Boyle.

Jolie's direction, after a slam - bang beginning involving a shot - up B - 24, is too conventionally rendered for such a harrowing story.

We're about to watch the purportedly harrowing story that would ultimately inspire the book Moby Dick.

April 27, 2015 • Some harrowing stories are emerging about people who are trapped among the rubble from the massive earthquake that hit Nepal this weekend.

But the top honor of the night went to «12 Years a Slave,» the harrowing story of a free man forced into slavery.

In an examination of the film in New York Times Magazine, writer, Carvell Wallace, recalls that the last instance he recalled of a similar community response for a film, was during Ryan Coogler's debut film, Fruitvale Station, which told the harrowing story of the last few hours of Oscar Grant's life.

I Am Not A Witch is a harrowing story, yet the magical realism via cinematography is allegorically impressionistic while the dooming consequences of Shula (Margaret Mulubwa) are devastating as it reflects a country caught in a social flux.

Still a very harrowing story of actual events and the bravery of so many.

Comprising archive footage and first - hand accounts, Claire Ferguson's film feels vital in sharing harrowing stories of life in concentration camps, while the message is clear: even 70 years later, these survivors will never be fully free.

Brady Jandreau, a Lakota cowboy from South Dakota, enacts a version of his own harrowing story of loss and recovery in writer - director Chloé Zhao's stunningly lyrical western, a seamless and deeply moving blend of narrative and documentary film techniques.

The Revenant tells a harrowing story of endurance, set in a desolate but hugely cinematic landscape.

At times it's very difficult to stomach, such is the sheer power and uncompromising telling of this harrowing story and he's aided, immeasurably, by an overwhelmingly excellent cast.

The doc uses his original words to tell the harrowing story of race in modern America, and it's one of the finest docs you'll see.

Using searing free verse, Leavitt tells the harrowing story of 16 - year - old Angel, who prostitutes herself through a drug haze while still fighting to save 11 - year - old Melli — and herself, if she can.

White Crocodile by K.T. Medina Real - life trauma in Cambodian minefields serves as the backdrop for this truly harrowing story of a woman's investigation into her abusive ex-husband's death.

Helping Jenny come to grips with the trauma is Dr. Alan Forrester, a psychiatrist who acts as the narrator of this harrowing story.

Many readers gave it a thumbs up for an arresting plotline: This powerful novel by Nathan Filer tells nineteen - year - old Matthew Homes» harrowing story.

A clear - eyed witness to the harrowing stories of «men we reaped,» she quickens the dead and brings them, vividly alive again.

Although a harrowing story it is ultimately a story of triumph and success.

A harrowing story of a war that society is waging on itself, and an enduring meditation on the ties of love and blood and duty that inform lives and shape destinies, No Country for Old Men is a novel of extraordinary resonance and power.