Sentences with phrase «particularly harrowing»

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.

Key Achievements • Resolved a cold case of a little girl who went missing from the city more than 56 years ago • Called upon especially to maintain order within the courtroom during a particularly harrowing case

As you will soon see, if you haven't already, changing lanes, merging traffic and pulling out into traffic can be a particularly harrowing experience!

Amidst an enduring crisis that has impacted virtually every part of Colombian society, the plight of the country's Indigenous peoples is particularly harrowing.

Particularly harrowing is a series from Biafra, where McCullin walked into a school and found 800 starving children «standing on their dying legs.»

While «helter - skelter» is generally synonymous with disorder or confusion, and in British English recalls an amusement park slide famously eternalised in The Beatles» eponymous song, it here evokes a particularly harrowing episode in Los Angeles» history.

Especially in particularly harrowing or high tension situations, I actually quite like the idea of a cutscene.

From there the plot will take gamers on a globe - trotting adventure, including a particularly harrowing sequence in Tokyo where Phoenix has to fight amidst total anarchy while trying to convince his allies to accept an uncomfortable secret.

What follows is a particularly harrowing game of cat and mouse where a limping Castellanos tries to evade his tormentor with no way of fighting his way out if things turn sour — as evidenced as when, in the demo I watched, a wrong step caused the protagonist to be buzz - sawed in half.

From creaking floorboards, to blood - curdling screams, to subtly terrifying touches such as the way Miles starts breathing heavy when in a particularly harrowing situation, the sound work is a driving force behind the fear the game creates.

Pico Iyer and Bob Geldof have also written accounts of the Bangkok bar scene - Geldof's is particularly harrowing.

But those storms present a particularly harrowing time for a days - old kitten, who found herself without her mama and stuck in a storm drain.

Matthews relates more of his own life later in the book, including a particularly harrowing account of reporting from the war in Chechnya.

Usually we'd warn you about the dangers of unlocking and installing custom software, but Asus has provided a particularly harrowing warning on its website:

After a particularly harrowing history visit to Auschwitz organised with the Holocaust Trust, one sixth former wrote: «Once home, I found it very difficult to reflect upon the emotive experience of Auschwitz.

In one particularly harrowing scene from the trailer, one of Thanos's children from the Black Order attempts to take the Mind Stone from Vision, which will be 100 percent detrimental to the humanoid if successful.

Much like Empire Strikes Back, this chapter looks particularly harrowing: Kylo Ren seems to be going through the motions, Poe Dameron appears much angrier, and, yes, we've got more Snoke.

There's also a particularly harrowing peek at a vicious standoff with what look like baboons.

What's particularly harrowing is that the survivor in question — a ghostly, reclusive war vet named Joe (Joaquin Phoenix)-- tries to exorcise his own demons by extricating others from traumatic situations.

This year has been a particularly harrowing one, filled with tragic deaths (David Bowie, Alan Rickman, Prince, Anton Yelchin, the list depressingly going on and on) and tragic attacks both on our soil and abroad.

That doesn't seem like a big deal until you accidently fall to your death, all because your grip twitched while leaping over a particularly harrowing chasm.

One of the best bits in the entire film takes place in an instant when the pregnant supermodel bride of evil Immortan Joe gets a thumbs up after a particularly harrowing close call.

Fear of flying can grow from many different roots — particularly harrowing turbulence, knowing someone who was in a plane crash, learning to be afraid as a child from a fearful parent, or media images of crashes, hijackings, or terrorist attacks.

«It's entirely possible that Muslim families will buy the game, and for them it may prove particularly harrowing.

It is particularly harrowing and this is especially true if a lactating mom has to return to work.

In one particularly harrowing incident, Cheever's father invited an abortionist to the family home weeks before baby John was born, hoping his wife would take the hint.

For such a terrible incident to occur at this of all times is particularly harrowing.

Not exact matches

The Proposition did open to some critical acclaim in its native Australia, and while competently created, with particularly strong performances all around, this is familiar territory for Western fans, with only the harrowing violence and Aussie setting to distinguish it from some of the other modern Westerns to come out in the US in the last few decades.

This looks like a harrowing survival film, nothing particularly new, but still intriguing enough to warrant a watch sometime.

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.

Even this post-Cold-War era of today, it still remains sufficiently harrowing, particularly at the moment of impact (seeing bodies instantly vaporized and knowing that that's what would really happen to you at ground zero is damned disconcerting), that you'll find yourself a little surprised that it aired on network TV.

The facts and statistics Leatherdale includes are undoubtedly shocking, but it's the refugees» personal stories and voices that make these accounts especially meaningful, particularly since each of the five ultimately survived their harrowing journeys.

The tactical asset allocation shift worked particularly well in 2015 as well as for the first 10 months of 2016; we largely sidestepped the bulk of two harrowing market pullbacks.

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.

In particular, she focuses on how whiteness as a societal default can have a harrowing effect on on the mental health of people of color, particularly women of color.

Christian Boltanski's harrowing installations of the lost and the anonymous are particularly powerful.

Nevertheless, we felt it important to engage directly with young people themselves... The young people each gave us compelling and, at times, harrowing accounts of the harmful experiences they had endured as a result of online bullying and access to age - inappropriate material, particularly adult pornography.»