Sentences with phrase «harrowing stories»

Anything North of Shelter St is really sketchy in my book as I have driven all of those streets and it is a good example of the issues that can be faced with chasing the max ROI in really rough areas - most of the time you don't get shot, but I have seen and heard of similarly harrowing stories in that area.

For comedic and sometimes harrowing stories of travel gone horribly awry, search «travel humor» at Amazon.

In the film, residents describe harrowing stories of severe flash flooding in the hollows, debris tumbling down the mountainside into backyards and entire communities bought out and vacated to make room for expanded mining.

The most successful work, however, is less concerned with the visible physical effects of violence but is instead narrative and documentary — intimate portraits of emboldened survivors who share their harrowing stories in unequivocal detail.

There is a wealth of emotion in the eyes of Rachael's subjects, and their harrowing stories are told in their luminous gazes.

The Fiji Museum in Suva, Viti Levu, takes you on a journey through the nation's history and cultural development, featuring centuries - old clothing, traditional canoes and harrowing stories of British explorers coming face to face with cannibalism.

Pick up Paul Bowles» harrowing stories of travelers consumed by the places they visit and you realize that Maugham is one of the few writers who has claimed those depths before him.

It's hard to avoid harrowing stories about loyal Pit Bulls saving family members in fires, serving as police dogs, or helping people as service dogs.

A powerful novel of friendship set in a traveling circus during World War II, The Orphan's Tale introduces two extraordinary women and their harrowing stories of sacrifice and survival

Over 100 WinePress authors are networking on a Facebook group sharing harrowing stories of deception / fraud done since new leadership took over in 2005: Overcharging, many books paid for & not published, & royalties not paid or fudged for years.

He does a marvelous job exposing these harrowing stories of people who find themselves in bad situations, shining a light on how eviction sets people up to fail.

YA / Mature Readers: Harrowing stories for young feminists and teens with an interest in China; includes some graphic abuse.

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

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.

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.

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).

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

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

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

«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.

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.

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

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

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

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.

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?

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.