Sentences with phrase «harrowing days»

«Luv»: An orphaned 11 - year - old boy is forced to face the unpleasant truth about his beloved uncle during one harrowing day on the streets of Baltimore.

Rickenbacker's resume included that of a successful race car driver in the early 1900s, America's top flying ace in WWI, and some 24 harrowing days adrift at sea in WWII.

Like Birdsong, Sebastian Faulks's best - selling epic of love and war, Charlotte Gray plunges the reader into the darkest, most harrowing days of war.

The pioneers battled frostbite, malnutrition, and dehydration while crossing this particularly unforgiving 200 - mile stretch of mountain terrain during their 11 harrowing days on the Lolo Trail.

His superb leadership and yeoman work in the harrowing days and weeks after Hurricane Sandy were perhaps his finest hour, and a fitting coda to the first phase of what has been a stellar, if still emerging, career.

Amurri Martino's son, Major James, experienced «bleeding on his brain» and spent two harrowing days in the hospital.

The harrowing days that follow will be both physically and mentally gruelling for everyone involved.

12 Strong: Set in the harrowing days following 9/11 when a U.S. Special Forces team, led by their new Captain, Mitch Nelson (Chris Hemsworth), are chosen to be the first U.S. troops sent into Afghanistan.

Set in the harrowing days following 9/11 when a U.S. Special Forces team, led by their new Captain, Mitch Nelson (Chris Hemsworth), are chosen to be the first U.S. troops sent into Afghanistan.

After Lone Scherfig's winsome Their Finest and Christopher Nolan's technical opus Dunkirk, it's been a big year for reenactments of those harrowing days, when hundreds of thousands of British troops were evacuated from a France lost to fascism at the start of World War II.

12 Strong is set in the harrowing days following 9/11 when a U.S. Special Forces team, led by their new Captain, Mitch Nelson (Chris Hemsworth), is chosen to be the first U.S. troops sent into Afghanistan for an extremely dangerous mission.

Set in the harrowing days following 9/11, a U.S. Special Forces team, led by their new Captain, Mitch Nelson (Chris Hemsworth), is chosen to be the first U.S. troops sent into Afghanistan for an extremely dangerous mission.

Ms. Steele flashed back to that harrowing day as the sirens earlier this month signaled the worst batch of tornadoes on record in the United States.

Charlotte Rogan's debut, The Lifeboat, takes place in the harrowing days after an ocean liner sinks.

For Burrowes (a pen name), writing began as a personal escape — a way to de-stress after the often - harrowing days she spent advocating for children in cases involving abuse.