Sentences with phrase «s coming to terms with our past»

A major concern of Cook's is the lack of communication between an aging father and his adult son — due in part to the father's inability to come to terms with his past.

Purgatory is the time for coming to terms with the past, more specifically, all the woes, deficiencies, and sins that we could not muster sufficient sensitivity to in this earthy life.

Supporters of the Child Victims Act say many victims are unable to come to terms with their past and muster the courage to seek help until long after that age.

When you've come to terms with the past and are ready to embrace life after divorce with exuberance and optimism, it's time to get dating.

When you've come to terms with the past and are ready to embrace life after divorce with exuberance and optimism, it's time to get dating again.

Yet he knows he must somehow come to terms with his past if he hopes to defeat Lord Shen in the future.

Watching these characters come to terms with their past brings great hope for the future, and offers sweet solace for anyone trying to heal the wounded child within.

Sterritt **** A young drug dealer tries to come to terms with his past on the day before he leaves for a seven - year prison term.

Still, his performance captures the inner turmoil of a man coming to terms with the past and also the future.

The Wave is a powerful and at times horrifying film that uses the natural advantage of its setting to make comment on the preconceptions and prejudices that must exist in a country still coming to terms with its past.

«We're thrilled to be working with her and the team at Pretty Pictures on this wonderfully life affirming, funny and heartfelt film about coming to terms with your past to face your future.»

America specifically is in a constant struggle to come to terms with its past atrocities, and racism looms large even as the more privileged would like to wave it off as a disease that's long been cured.

While the President (Morgan Freeman) tries to maintain order in the land, a team of experts led by a famed astronaut (Robert Duvall) attempts to stop the comet and an ambitious journalist (Tea Leoni) resolves to come to terms with her past.

The two of them go on a day - long journey that causes Elle to come to terms with her past and Sage to confront her future.

Po and his friends fight to stop a peacock villain from conquering China with a deadly new weapon, but first the Dragon Warrior must come to terms with his past.

Her story is told in an extended flashback, bookended by the elderly Elle - Marja's reluctant return to Lapland to attend her sister's funeral, an event which forces her to come to terms with her past.

«The Bourne Ultimatum» is ultimately more of the same, with Matt Damon «s amnesiac secret agent still struggling to come to terms with his past (and make things right in his present).

Another character, Vic, is central to the book: he appears as an awkward adolescent fixated on unattainable older girls, as a young man coping with the legacy of his father's alcoholism and abandonment, and as a middle - aged man unable to come to terms with his past.

When David faces a tragedy of his own and loses his will to live, Michael must come to terms with his past in order to help save his son.

This is not just a story of one man trying to come to terms with his past... - JLPen77 Do you think Daniel's life would have ultimately been better or worse if he'd listened to Myrna's advice that he should go home?

I enjoyed hearing about her life and especially seeing her come to terms with past memories.

However, in this book the wounds are deeper as Sybella must come to terms with her past and how her secrets tie and untie her to a knight who is the bane of her existence and her hope for the future.

It is about Dinnie, who comes to terms with her past and establishes a secure identity for the future.

Even if you think that you've accepted and come to terms with the past, old wounds are opened,... - jillf Did you like the «gritty» style?

In order to come to terms with that past, Fanny must put her trust and love in the hands of Colonel Sir Derek Sheldon, a man with secrets of his own.

This book definitely reflects all of that, his honesty shows through, his love for his son and wife, his faith and the coming to terms with his past.

More importantly, it is the story of how I came to terms with my past, learned to live happily in the present, and how I built the bridge that would get me over it...

Here she whiles away the hours, coming to terms with her past, present, and future.

Much of her practice stems from her own memories, and by mining this history she attempted to come to terms with her past.

After the war, although he never consciously embraced the German process of Vergangenheitsbewältigung (the process of coming to terms with the past), he once remarked: «It's just there.

The moving, urgent films by these three artists mark a new approach in coming to terms with the past.

Young Indigenous people variously speak of being alienated from both black and white communities, of difficulty in coming to terms with the past, of living somewhere «between two worlds», and being unable to find a point of balance (pp65 - 80).

Yet, precisely because it is such an important step in coming to terms with the past, and in achieving reconciliation, it is important that it be subject to fair - minded criticism.

If you are experiencing life through the lens of past trauma, attachment injuries, or relational conflicts, allow me to help you learn how to manage your emotions, work through the pain and hurt, and come to term with the past.»

I think coming to terms with your past is one of the most difficult parts of our journey.

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The story of a reserved English butler slowly coming to terms with his dark past, The Remains of the Day by Kazuo Ishiguro clearly touched a nerve with the Amazon founder.

The article for me is even proof that more and more Christians are able to come to terms with their problems and face them rather than hide them and be ashamed as many would have done in the past.

Within the past year, I've come to terms with an overwhelming and yet awe - inspiring truth: Parenthood is stewardship.

For a culture deeply imbued with Freudian assumptions, it should be no surprise that the healing necessary for eternal redemption is understood as a coming to terms with one's past.

The great problems of history with which we must come to terms tend to appear to us not as members of a chain organically tied to the past and growing into the future, but as cataclysmic interruptions of the normalcy of peace and harmony, occasioned by evil men and evil institutions.

But this is to fail to come to terms with the work itself, which must itself determine how its own past is to be interpreted.

Loney's friends worked — with his tender assistance — to come to terms with their painful pasts, a task which often involved asking for forgiveness from their victim's families.

He spoke movingly of how he had first had to come to terms with these questions when reporting on sexual abuse of minors in a Protestant missionary agency, and how the past year's reporting on the Catholic situation had posed for him painful ethical dilemmas with respect to issues of confidentiality, perspective, and the dangers of playing to stereotypes.

John B. Cobb, Jr., formulates the issue thus: «Every occasion must come to terms with the whole of its past, but it is causally effected by nothing contemporary with it.

Perhaps we can come to terms with the exploitations of the past, but should we complacently stand aside as the sacred mountain of the Navajos is strip - mined and the ecology of their region destroyed in order to produce more electricity to meet the insatiable demands of us Californians?

These Responsa, never regarded as inspired or authoritative in any official sense, have nevertheless been an influential factor in enabling the Jew to come to terms with a world of change and at the same time to maintain a feeling of continuity with the past of his people.

Thank you for your sweet words here Ksenia < 3 I've struggled with it so in the past, it seems that coming to terms and embracing it has only came through experiencing it over and over - patience is so a virtue, isn't it?

The German international has failed to agree terms on a contract extension over the past year, and with his current deal set to expire come the end of the campaign, he looks ever likely to be leaving the club.

Wenger is past his sell by date and the sooner the Board come to terms with this the better.

(As anyone who has been visiting MomsTEAM's Concussion Safety Center for the past twelve years knows, science and technology have yet to come up with a way to prevent concussions; the most we can realistically hope to do at this point is a better job of identifying concussions when they occur and managing them in such a way as to keep the recovery time to a minimum and to keep kids from returning before their brains have fully healed so as to minimize the risk of serious, long - term effects, or even, in rare cases, death).