Lauren Mayberry

Crushes start out as that teenage phenomenon, life-affirming and cute, but as you wander into adulthood, they seem to end up more painful, harrowing, and uncertain, especially if you have just come out of the relationship you thought would finally, maybe, maybe be the one that stuck.

Scottish Musician

Padgett Powell

Travel writing is harrowing. You are in paradise, more or less, having to prove it is paradise. It is hard to have a good time trying to figure out a way to say you are having a good time, whether you are having it or not, even in paradise.

American Novelist

Elliot Knight

We can all tend to get caught up in the complications of life that we create; we live life for other people. It's a harrowing moment when you're confronted with an end, and you have to make the choice to live your life for you.

British Actor

Richard Branson

I love travelling full stop - so while I've had some harrowing instances, I never look at them negatively. Memories are made when you're travelling - not when you're chained to your desk.

British Businessman

Harlan Coben

When I was seventeen, I worked as a counsellor at a co-ed sleep-away camp for eight weeks. I loved it but it could be harrowing - it was far too much responsibility for someone my age.

American Author

Sarah Lancashire

I don't search it out - I really want to be clear, I don't search out the misery! I'm not sitting at home going, 'I can't wait to do another harrowing piece of work.

British Actress

Josh Radnor

Well, I stopped drinking. That was actually a big deal. I didn't go through any harrowing rock-bottom experience. I just made a decision to stop drinking.

American Director

Rae Carson

My most profound growth as a writer came when I joined an online critique group. What a harrowing, terrifying, wonderful experience that was.

American Writer

Lane Garrison

I have much to say about the pain I've felt and seen inside of prison. It has been an eye-opening and harrowing experience.

American Actor

Robert Rinder

My genuine passion for dance was born watching Ballet Rambert perform Christopher Bruce's harrowing 'Ghost Dances.

English Judge

Understand that 'harrow' as a verb is specific to farming and preparing land for crops.

Agricultural Context

Using 'harrow' as a verb suggests manual or machine-driven labor involving the soil.

Physical Activity

Recognize 'harrow' as a noun refers to a specific farm implement, not general tools.

Farming Equipment

The harrow is often heavy and requires a tractor to pull, differentiating it from lighter tools like rakes.

Heavy Machinery

When used as a verb, 'harrow' describes experiences causing deep emotional pain or worry.

Emotional Weight

Separate the emotional meaning of 'harrow' as a verb from its physical agricultural use.

Not Physical

 this adage that when you're making decisions, especially decisions of importance, it's best to be in charge, it's best to be in control, it's best to be in the driver's seat. And we were certainly in the driver's seat, making all these decisions. And let me tell you -- if some of you have been there, it was a most agonizing and harrowing experience.

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 in fishing gears are also a threat to one another in belize so these animals are facing many trips but the main trip currently is the watercraft collision which is something that we can change and we can control so important work a great question has just come in um and you've talked about some of these really kind of harrowing issues

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 about how we might protect water, protect it in the way that you would protect your grandmother, your mother, your sister, your aunties. That is the type of transformation that we need if we are going to address the many water crises we see in our world today, these harrowing water crises that have streamed across our digital devices

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 the last three miles will be a harrowing test of their focus navigating on glaciers is factually very difficult you can't go in a straight line you're constantly jumping crevices and zigzagging back and forth one misplaced eft and you're sliding right down on these crevasses kind of the first deep for rasp we've run into

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 importance it's best to be in charge it's best to be in control it's best to be in the driver's seat and we were certainly in the driver's seat making all these decisions so let me tell you some of you have been there it's the most agonizing and harrowing experience

Sometimes it's good to...

 And he said, "This was proof that even in the most harrowing times of race struggle that two people could come together across racial lines and find human commonality along the lines of love and affection."

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 and he's a National Geographic Explorer he's waving there so you can see him tim has built a fairly harrowing life's work for himself he predicts when a tornado will hit he gets himself there before it

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 of the nation's material wealth that defied credulity. A harrowing predilection for the uses of force had become commonplace, with an equal distaste for the alternative forms of influence.

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 She had to sleep packed in mud in order to protect herself from the cold and the mosquitoes. She was eating moths. I mean, just a harrowing story of survival. I met her recently,

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 initiates they had one that I had come up so this makes us afraid let's lay making plate for it it is the morning of the ritual inside the spirit house the harrowing

Harrow

To break up and smooth out soil or land using a harrow.

Often appears as...

A tool or equipment with spikes or disks, used to break up and smooth the soil.

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To cause distress or torment to someone.

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