Harrowing
Part of speech: verb
Definition: To drag a harrow over; to break up with a harrow.
Part of speech: adjective
Definition: Causing pain or distress.
Example sentence: The CIA's official history of the Bay of Pigs operation is filled with dramatic and harrowing details that not only lay bare the strategic, logistical, and political problems that doomed the invasion, but also how the still-green President John F. Kennedy scrambled to keep the U.S. from entering into a full conflict with Cuba.
Painful
Part of speech: adjective
Definition: Full of pain; causing hurt, uneasiness or distress, either physical or mental; afflictive; disquieting; distressing.Requiring effort, labor or toil; difficult; executed with laborious effort; as a painful service; a painful march.Painstaking; careful; industrious
Example sentence: God is a God of the present. God is always in the moment, be that moment hard or easy, joyful and painful.