Sentences with phrase «becomes harrowing»

What starts as a stylish and truly sexy porn, soon becomes a harrowing, often deeply upsetting, horror movie, with shades of Last House on the Left and the later Funny Games.

Once you get a grip on the structure, the movie becomes harrowing.

In its most developed form the Descent into Hades became the Harrowing of Hell in which death is finally defeated, Hell harrowed, and all the saints set free.

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The service, which won an Emmy this year for the harrowing series «The Handmaid's Tale,» will ultimately have to rely less on broadcast networks for its content and could become a place for more originals, a tack Netflix and Amazon have taken.

Ms. Calcaterra's harrowing memoir, «Etched in Sand,» became a New York Times best - seller after its release last year.

With that harrowing feat, she became the first ever reported case of a human infestation with the cattle eyeworm, Thelazia gulosa.

With that harrowing feat, she became the first ever reported case of a human infestation with the cattle eyeworm,...

Retired Navy SEAL Marcus Luttrell became famous after his harrowing experience during Operation Red Wings in Afghanistan, which became the

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A Girl Like Her is genuinely harrowing by virtue of its realistic portrayal of the social pressures that weigh on teens and of the herd mentality that impels them to become passive accomplices in bullying.

Academy Award winning director Danny Boyle's new film, 127 Hours, is a gripping account of mountain climber Aron Ralston's harrowing ordeal after he becomes pinned under a boulder while canyoneering alone near Moab, Utah and must take desperate measures in...

Despite the danger, as well as the toll on his family at home, Chris serves through four harrowing tours of duty in Iraq, becoming emblematic of the SEAL creed to «leave no man behind.»

What It's About: «19 - year - old private Billy Lynn becomes a war hero after a harrowing Iraq battle and is brought home temporarily for a victory tour.

But what Hanks does is extraordinary because it's so subtle: He's the hardworking everyman who becomes an accidental hero, but he also must remain accessible as he serves as our guide through this harrowing world.

In many ways, these harrowing films have become the tentpole events for dramas delivered in the heart of awards season; ordinary people overcoming an excruciating experience to emerge scarred but unbowed («12 Years A Slave,» «Wild,» «Gravity,» et al).

O'Connell stars as «the young Zamperini from the time he was a wunderkind member of the USA track team that competed in the 1936 Berlin Olympics to his survival of a harrowing plane crash in the Pacific Ocean during WWII through 47 days adrift in a life raft to becoming a POW in a Japanese prison camp.»

Academy Award winning director Danny Boyle's new film, 127 Hours, is a gripping account of mountain climber Aron Ralston's harrowing ordeal after he becomes pinned under a boulder while canyoneering alone near Moab, Utah and must take desperate measures in order to survive.

You'll likely see little of yourself in the harrowing «Cartel Land,» a piece about a giant swath of the continent that has basically become a lawless, vigilante state.

Caniba Description: The latest by the makers of Leviathan (NYFF50) is a harrowing engagement with the sheer presence of a man who did the unthinkable: Issei Sagawa, who became a tabloid magnet after killing and cannibalizing a woman in Paris in 1981.

The film will follow the harrowing journey the couple take until Einar becomes Lilli and her life thereafter.

East Is East can also be very serious especially when George becomes more and more hardline and the drama becomes increasingly harrowing and darker in tone.

Exiled, in hiding, depending on brave undercover assets, their task becomes increasingly harrowing as friends and family die and lives hang in the balance.

Mark Harris's 2014 historical book of criticism has become an even better documentary, built out of harrowing battle footage and the testimony of several modern - day directors including Steven Spielberg and Guillermo del Toro.

But when 13 Hours: The Secret Soldiers of Benghazi turns into the two - hour - long action symphony it can barely wait to become — a harrowing stretch of shadowy aggressors charging the walls of a compound, bullets pinging off metal, spent ammo casings showering the cement underfoot, endless carnage — this director is completely in his wheelhouse.

Beasts of No Nation is a harrowing tale of an African boy who's forced to become a soldier.

Premiering Saturday on Showtime, it is a tale — comical, harrowing, comically harrowing, harrowingly comical — of life among the British upper classes and their hopeful attendants, and more particularly of Patrick, his childhood trauma, subsequent addictions, attractions and attempts not to become like the people who made him.

Before long, the beast struck again, and Trush, leader of a tiger conservation unit, found himself forced to hunt this animal through the brutal cold of a Siberian winter, becoming intimately acquainted with the tiger's history, motives, and unique method of attack — until their harrowing final encounter.

Those stories became the basis of her first novelBlack Mamba Boy, an engrossing debut that tells the harrowing story of a resilient Somali boy mired in the politics of war - torn Africa and caught between the attachment to his heritage and the lure of European opportunity.

Those stories became the basis of her first novelBlack Mamba Boy, an engrossing debut that tells the harrowing story of a resilient Somali boy mired in the politics of war - torn Africa and caught between...

In one harrowing story set amidst the 2003 SARS crisis, which the author witnessed firsthand, two of these doctors suddenly become the patients.

The Only Girl in the World by Maude Julien (translated from French by Adriana Hunter) Raised by a deranged father who believed she would become a «supreme being» if she was raised in complete isolation under his horrific tutelage, this memoir is both harrowing and a testament to the ability of the human spirit to heal.

This dramatic account of the harrowing entrapment and eventual rescue of the 33 Chilean miners in 2010 details how unity became the crux of the men's survival.

It was a long and harrowing process to settle on what ultimately became my title, but here's what I learned:

Another more harrowing example of taxable munis are those that are issued as tax free, then later become taxable if and when the IRS determines the proceeds are being used for purposes that do not fall under tax - exempt status.

Among the highlights of its first eight years are: Bernd Alois Zimmermann's harrowing Die Soldaten, in which the audience moved «through the music;» the unprecedented six - week residency of the Royal Shakespeare Company in their own theater rebuilt in the drill hall; a massive digital sound and video environment by Ryoji Ikeda; a sprawling gauzy, multi-sensory labyrinth created by Ernesto Neto; the event of a thread, a site - specific installation by Ann Hamilton; the final performances of the Merce Cunningham Dance Company across three separate stages; the New York Philharmonic performing Karlheinz Stockhausen's sonic masterpiece Gruppen with three orchestras surrounding the audience; WS by Paul McCarthy, a monumental installation of fantasy, excess, and dystopia; a sonic environment that blurred the boundaries between artist and audience created by the xx; an immersive Macbeth set in a Scottish heath and henge by Rob Ashford and Kenneth Branagh; tears become... streams become..., a genre - defying collaboration between artist Douglas Gordon and pianist Hélène Grimaud, which flooded the Armory's drill hall with an installation of water, light, and music; and HABEAS CORPUS, a performance and installation by Laurie Anderson based on the story of a former Guantanamo Bay detainee that examines lost identity, memory, and the resiliency of the human body and spirit.

But no matter how harrowing the journey has become, his eloquent, unforgettable photographs are invariably attuned to the transformative power of the human spirit.

Over time, Kara Walker became essentially appreciated for her large - scale tableaux of collaged silhouettes set amidst black and white pastoral landscapes, packed with brutal and harrowing imagery illustrating the origins of slavery in the South.

The Colombian artist redeploys domestic objects into abstract and harrowing memorials for the victims of violence — but her work is becoming less subtle

Given that harrowing scenario, Miami is either refusing to acknowledge the inevitable, or desperately trying to become relevant enough to be saved — not that saving the city is actually feasible.

Such first - person accounts of harrowing personal attacks with no bitterness or malice, only details and reality, are rare and precious in a debate that has become a war.

But if a funeral home or mortician does not treat your loved one with respect, a period of mourning can become even more emotionally harrowing.

Andrea is committed to helping other women navigate the path to becoming their authentic selves — the harrowing parts, the joyous parts, and everything in between!

The charade became particularly harrowing and elaborate when I was forced to attend a team bonding weekend at Kerry Packer's schmancy ranch, where the activities included quad - bike riding, helicopter rides, go - karting and wine - tasting.