Sentences with phrase «sometimes harrowing»

Young people — adolescents, specifically — are entering a pivotal time in life at an interesting and sometimes harrowing time in our history.

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

Having been invited to a hotel in Istanbul, about 15 people told their sometimes harrowing and fascinating stories at a press conference, and were later invited to recount their experiences again in a TV studio in interviews with the director of an extreme makeover programme.

The result is a touching, funny, and sometimes harrowing portrait of American youth at the dawn of the 21st century.

The artist's innovative style blends mixed media to create powerful, thought provoking images that capture life in its most diverse, and sometimes harrowing forms.

This allows for a truly realistic, and sometimes harrowing, approach to gameplay, as players get a real feel for what it's like to be a nomad in the age of the Hun.

Temple Street night market is an intoxicating, if sometimes harrowing experience: think pirate DVDs and fake designer clothes alongside buckets of doomed toads.

The Lobster, Lanthimos» English - language debut, is another strange, sometimes harrowing exercise in absurdity that resonates despite its weirdness.

Samal Yeslyamova won best actress for her title performance in Sergey Dvortsevoy's tough, sometimes harrowing nail - biter Ayka.

Tantalisingly vague, but packed with witty and sometimes harrowing observations, this artful examination of a very dark soul isn't always easy to watch.

David Yates» «Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows» is a handsome and sometimes harrowing film, and will be completely unintelligible for anyone coming to the series for the first time.

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.

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.

Not exact matches

Buying gifts for those following a Paleo lifestyle can sometimes be a harrowing thing for those that aren't themselves — especially when it comes to THAT time of year.

When mistakes are made, animals can sometimes endure this harrowing experience whilst conscious.

Sometimes PTSD can be triggered by growing up in a harrowing environment where a child is at the mercy of a cruel parent or parental figure.

Each member of the search party is affected by the adventure, which takes them in unexpected directions — comic, harrowing, and sometimes deeply emotional.

This semi-autobiographical story is an occasionally harrowing but sometimes also surprisingly warm and funny tale that, while the characters focus a lot on eating (or, rather, not eating), is really more about finding the will and self - love necessary to live rather than about dealing with an eating disorder.

A cross between François Truffaut's sometimes - harrowing dramas about childhood and a Steven Spielberg fantasy, Gondry's film abounds with sentiment - without falling prey to sentimentality.

Directed by Britain's Simon Curtis with a «Masterpiece Theatre» sensibility for accurately reproducing an era in cars, clothes and home furnishings, Goodbye Christopher Robin sprints comfortably along from Milne's harrowing World War I service in the trenches through his difficult adjustment to peacetime, his sometimes fraught relations with Daphne and his retreat to the woods where the muses eventually whispered like the wind in the tree branches.

The sometimes - political nature enhances the overall emphasis of the film, giving it the weight necessary to be a cautionary tale underneath, while on the surface, the action is inventive, harrowing and quite riveting, even during the quieter moments.

It traces Acconci from his days as a poet to a maker of vanguard films that sometimes recorded the harrowing performance work he was pioneering, and closes with a tour of the 76 - year - old's sprawling archives.

Sometimes figuring out how to properly create a resume can be just as harrowing as the job interviews themselves.