harrowing

Speech parts

1. harrowing - Noun

2. harrowing - Adjective

3. harrowing - Verb

5. harrowing - Adjective Satellite

Meaning

of Harrow

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Examples

As technology puts the God-wand into the hands of mankind, new ethical issues never before facing us pose harrowing decisions. Vanna Bonta

Formerly I felt repulsion for these creatures, and it was a harrowing thought for me to reflect that so many of our profession, Troyon, Marchal, Meryon, Jundt, M. Maris, Monticelli [all painter-artists], and heaps more had ended like this. Vincent van Gogh

But topographical details have a strange effect on me : instead of clarifying and sharpening images from past, they give me a harrowing sensation of emptiness and severed relationships. Patrick Modiano

Drudgery is as necessary to call out the treasures of the mind, as harrowing and planting those of the earth. Margaret Fuller

They are always very lax about putting restrictions on violence for children's movies, which I think is much more harrowing than sexuality for children. Philip Kaufman

Only a man harrowing clods In a slow silent walk With an old horse that stumbles and nods Half asleep as they stalk. Thomas Hardy

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