Sentences with phrase «harrowing reading»

The EVA - 23 incident was classified as a «High Visibility Close Call,» and the MIB's report provides harrowing reading and offers a measure of insight into how close Parmitano came to suffering serious injury or even death.
Today's report on legal high deaths in prison makes for harrowing reading.
You might also like to check out her website but, as an antenatal teacher, I have found that many women are more frightened than reassured by her first book, Spiritual Midwifery, since although the mothers» and midwives» stories bear testament to the strength of feminine nature, some of them make harrowing reading.
It's harrowing reading, but churches would be naive to think the disease that's infiltrated so much of our society hasn't wormed its way into the roots of the Church as well.
Harrowing reading, and similar in many ways to the experiences related in this thread.
By all accounts, Emma Donoghue's novel, written from the perspective of a 5 - year - old boy who's spent his entire life locked up with his mother in a madman's garden shed, is a terrific, harrowing read.
It's a terrifying and claustrophobic place to be, and the result is a harrowing read that creates — no, demands — empathy, not just for Michael but for his family, who try to balance their desire to help him with the wish to be free of his burden.
Two Sisters is a harrowing read, as it lays bare the most barbaric aspects of humanity, taking us into the ISIS camps in Syria where young children are brutalized and made to participate in beheadings, stonings and crucifixions all in the name of pleasing God.

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IT was 2007 when Hancock Prospecting chairman and director Gina Rinehart read a harrowing story about Cambodian prostitution and sex slavery.
as i've been reading through all these harrowing posts i can't seem to get this song out of my head: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c4OS17lqHiE
Read about Floridian's Jenn Klawitter and Carrie Bell's brand new quadruplets and Kelsey Rae's sometimes harrowing life of being a lesbian mom living abroad in Tanzania.
Odds are you heard of former Attorney General Eric Schneiderman's various fronts against President Donald Trump before you read The New Yorker story detailing harrowing allegations of physical abuse.
«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.
This is one of the most harrowing accounts by a cancer sufferer I have ever read; I have a collection of cancer books possibly numbered in the hundreds.
He is... Glenn Simpson — «What can you tell us about how the Russians launder their money and whether... Every day, judges across the United States face harrowing decisions... That... Search Read More...
Their first - unveiled collaboration, the harrowing, Fincher - with - more - emotional - resonance crime thriller «Prisoners» has already bruised audiences in Telluride and Toronto (read our review here).
Based on true events, COLONIA is a harrowing thriller that follows the attempted escape from one the Read More →
7 Days in Entebbe by George Wolf A film that sells the importance of negotiation while it details a harrowing plan of action, 7 Days in Entebbe gets caught in... read more →
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:
She began working at the Pioneer Press in 2003 and, in the intervening years, has focused mainly on copy editing, with a recent stint in web producing and occasional writing forays (you haven't lived until you've read her harrowing account of a family vacation in the Black Hills of South Dakota).
Divergent by Hope Madden High school sucks, but like all harrowing experiences and universal truths, it can lead to valid and valued artistic expression — nearly all modern adolescent literature,... read more →
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I really loved this harrowing yet uplifting book when I read it about 5 - 6 years ago, and so was a bit apprehensive when I went to see this film, especially considering that the book is from the perspective of the 5 year old boy.
I have not read Permanent Midnight, but based on what I've read about it, the film is a pale shadow of what is said to be a work that is quite harrowing and even funny.
This has the potential to be a rather harrowing endeavor for the average customer who wants to buy one e-reader and read books that have been assigned to another.
The harrowing and horrifying stories of human trafficking are not something we necessarily want to read — we would like to believe that we live in a world without slavery — but they are stories that need to be heard.
I've been a Deon Meyer fan since reading last year's Heart of the Hunter, a harrowing tale of a motorcycle chase through Southern Africa.
Faulk's description of the Holocaust is unflinching and harrowing; it will haunt you even after you've finished reading.
In October of 2002 we had an extremely challenging situation with a dog lost a very long distance away — click on Finding Poetry to read about her 23 day harrowing adventure in South Carolina with a happy ending.
This is a transcript from an interview on Peter Greenberg Worldwide Radio... Peter Greenberg: On evening before Thanksgiving, I was at NBC in New York and received a harrowing email... Read More...
These tours related to the Vietman War attract plenty of people to relive the harrowing event that enveloped the entire Read More...
The final episode also unveils the fate of our protagonists — John Malkovich (In the Line of Fire, RED, Burn After Reading), Bill Paxton (Aliens, Titanic, Edge of Tomorrow), Rose McGowan (Planet Terror, Scream), Jon Bernthal (Fury, The Wolf of Wall Street) and Bruce Campbell (Burn Notice, Bubba Ho - Tep), who have found themselves in a harrowing situation as they attempt to discover the true cause of the global pandemic and the terrible secret that Atlas has been hiding.
It's a terrific read - funny, insightful, at times harrowing - and I highly recommend it.
Though small in scale, the works command the same presence that any sculpture in the round — or indeed monument does — forcing you to circle back and forth and round back again to read the harrowing histories, told in Spanglish, of marginalized people on them: forced sterilization of Latinas, deportations at the hands of I.C.E. and FRONTEX, and the effects of colonization writ - large.
Inspired by photographs passed down from Scott's grandfather, filmmaker Rey Scott, the works in this series mine the harrowing episodes of his travels and subsequent 1941 Oscar - winning documentary, «Kukan,» revealing uncharted war torn China during the late 1930s and 1940s... Continue reading Michelle Scott at 2 Rules
The Herald also notes what must have been a harrowing moment just before the jury's verdict was read, when Monson reached out to shake his attorney's hand and thank him.
Feel free to read all about it, it's a harrowing and dramatic story, but in this monthly African tech wrap we will focus only on bonafide African technology stories, if you don't mind.
But interviews are also quite harrowing experiences for most of us as we are often asked questions that leave us speechless not only because we do not know the answers but also because we may be just too nervous to... Read More»
You know, I was reading about my friend Terri's harrowing experience on an airplane this past weekend.
I was reading a post by Mummy Haze yesterday about her harrowing depression battle and she expressed the way the negative feelings can grip you really well.
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