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These depressions include plough furrows running at right angles to the dominant slope direction or irregularities left after harrowing.
It is a harrowing experience to hear a squeal of tires followed by a thump and then the anguished cries of an animal in pain.
For these men to even admit they have been hit by their wives is harrowing, never mind having to seek help from the police or a woman solicitor.
Well I suppose at once extremely harrowing to give the evidence but in many ways extremely cathartic to do so.
As harrowing as this discovery was, Byrne took some comfort in it since it offered an explanation for Alice's mental problems.
The film is a harrowing tale about a woman who wakes up to find her husband dead.
Now she takes you on a harrowing true life journey from childhood neglect so bad she gnawed at dog bones for nourishment.
Judging by excerpts already published, the last couple of years have been even more harrowing for the player than most of us suspected.
Because of the flawed layout and the speed of the dual carriageway traffic, driving along this stretch of road can be harrowing.
He sits in on interviews which can last up to seven hours and can be harrowing if the refugees have had traumatic experiences.
It was rather a harrowing scene and it grew more frightful the more the clouds rolled in.
He says visiting some malls and big shopping plazas on weekends can be harrowing.
Before yesterday's hearing began he told families some of the evidence would be particularly harrowing.
Mid morning a young girl arrives after a harrowing journey, bewildered by her new surroundings.
Entering the Auburn campus had been difficult and harrowing, and Franklin still had to register for classes.
Escape training can be a harrowing experience especially for those who are claustrophobic.
Arab Americans who came forward to testify at the hearing told equally harrowing tales of harassment.
Scott also plays with lenses, camera speed and some excellent special effects to heighten the impact of the harrowing fight scenes.
This is a lengthy and very harrowing account of an abused and degraded girl, whose story is at once pathetic and tragic.
Later, they broke down in tears as the four-week trial, which has revealed harrowing evidence, came to a close.
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Nothing however, was heard of the boat until now when the capita appeared and told a harrowing story.
And from her silence pip drew the most desperate and harrowing conclusions.
This experience was harrowing, but it prepared his mind for the seeds of wisdom.
The scene was harrowing, and only two of its incidents are material to this history.
The Irish farmer is with the poet, who hits his harrowing anguish to a hair.
Following the turning over of the stubble under water, comes the clod smashing and harrowing by quadrupedal or bipedal labour.
He looked away, for that epicene tenderness of hers was too harrowing.
He was simply regarding the harrowing contingencies of human experience, the unexpectedness of things.
So ended that chapter in the harrowing history of Murray Davenport.
It may be based on a harrowing true story, but there's a strong ambience of Sunday afternoon cosiness to the affair.
Then I rapidly told him the history of my meeting with his wife, and depicted, in harrowing pigments of phrase, the distress of her mind.
Bold tonal and stylistic swings, from the most harrowing psychological tragedy to wacky farce.
I gave her the story of the accident in a few words, without laying too much stress on some too harrowing details.
Many harrowing details of the cruelties practiced were cited.
His voice suggested sympathetic reproof but at the same time indicated that a few harrowing details would not be unacceptable.
The London Gazette's harrowing story of the September 5, 1694, inferno will be one of the star items at the Birmingham Book and Ephemera Fair.
No need to retell the tale of his long and harrowing fight for health.
We will not dwell upon the harrowing events of the next few days.
And a footling Hindemith encore came as a crass intrusion after the harrowing Shostakovich, surely one of the masterpieces of the entire quartet repertoire.
The Government site features harrowing scenes of a drunken wife-beater, a junkie taking an overdose and a thug repeatedly kicking a helpless victim.
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