Sentences with phrase «coming to grips with life»

It's mostly about coming to grips with life and taking joy in the good things... like a cute little boy and a trusted partner with whom to share each day.

I was also disappointed with the film's lack of interest in Shannon as a person because I feel like there was potential to build on her thoughts on life and her own morals instead of focusing way too much on Amy coming to grips with her life.

The idea of working abroad — immersing myself in another culture and coming to grips with life in another country — had always appealed to me.

When ten - year - old Rex's family moves to Ottawa in 1962, he finds new friends outside his immediate neighborhood, comes to grips with living during the Cold War, and discovers the mystery of a missing panther.

More mystical than the original, with occasional magic elements, the game shows Lara in her most ambitious adventure to date, whilst she still comes to grips with the life of a Tomb Raider.

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When someone lives about the law, watching them come to grips with reality is always going to be compelling.

«I've come to grips with the fact that you are the product on the internet,» said Mark Snyder, 32, who lives in Pompano Beach, Fla., and was among Mr. Deason's friends whose data was collected.

Criticism can't come to grips with good poetry by talking only about the craft of the poetry; the poems themselves draw the critic into discussions of life and the world.

It is also apparent that the desire for titillation has overridden any actual desire to see Julie come to grips with where her life is.

«If we are ever to reach you, matter, we must, having first established contact with the totality of all that lives and moves here below, come little by little to feel that the individual shapes of all we have laid hold on are melting away in our hands, until finally we are at grips with the single essence of all subsistencies and all unions.

The CTS has done a competent job with Jim Gallagher's simple booklet telling the story of John Paul's life - the childhood marked by his mother's early death along with that of his brother; the deep, strong bond with his father; the grim years of the German occupation and his tough job in a stone quarry; the mysticism and prayer - life; the youth drama groups; the ordination in a Poland coming to grips with what was to be a decades - long imposition of Communism.

Step down from your invisible high horse and come to grips with reality that you are all just as American as everyone else living here, while legal or not.

I have finally come to grips with the fact that church work will not be a significant part of my life in this location — a profoundly discouraging conclusion, because there's so little else to do in this town, and I can not move away any time soon — but not before going through a prolonged (and continuing) grieving process for the loss of something I loved that had been a part of my life for so long.

When the early church came to grips with the problem presented by the extraordinary career and the tragic fate of its Founder, it turned for elucidation to these passages of Isaiah, which speak of a life of service and a martyr's death.

Suffering can become the vehicle for learning to hold lightly to life, for coming to grips with our own creaturliness and for realizing our ultimate dependence on God.

Clearly the role of progressive Christians is, like Jacob, not to die until we have assured the rise of those questions, the life of those questions, in a dynamic and meaningful spirituality as the next generation comes to grips with them.

However, if we are going to learn to come to grips with the most powerful influence in their lives, we will have to take our heads out of the sand.

«Twitter is part of our everyday life and we better come to grips with it.

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Physicists will never come to grips with the grand theories of the universe, Penrose holds, until they see past the blinding distractions of today's half - baked theories to the deepest layer of the reality in which we live.

I've been in the yoga and fitness world for fifteen years, now and I come across countless students struggling in squats of all sorts, take a pose like Chair — unable to sit back no matter what wonderful amazing cue I'd give them, they are stuck with all their body weight plunging into their knees, and can't seem to get past the pain of their quads gripping for life to keep them in the pose.

This week, residents throughout the Midwest are coming to grips with how to rebuild their lives after an intense storm system produced a reported 76 tornados across the middle of the Nation on Sunday.

When it comes to me I simply am on the lookout for the next adventure in life I have a very hard job that I enjoy very very much I fish on the Bering Sea and I'm grateful for that job in it really is a humbling experience and brings you to grips with your own mortality

I had to come to grips with the fact that my very private protected life was about to become very public.

The four kids and their families move back in with their mother to sit Shiva, grieve, get back their roots, and come to grips with the way their lives panned out.

The film meanders through assorted scenarios of letting go, letting the acquisitions of life fall away, introducing us to people coming to grips with what has enduring value to them and those around them, and what doesn't.

The whole plot in general is choppy, we get to grips with these «Necromongers» coming along and threatening every living soul including Riddick.

While Darwin's research and writing of the book are at the centre of Creation, the film is mainly concerned with Darwin's private life and his inner struggles coming to grips with what his research will mean to society and his family.

Starting with a timeless premise — young people are stupid — and spinning it into a broad, crass, and relentlessly amusing mid-summer surprise, «Mike and Dave Need Wedding Dates» may not be the first Apatow - era comedy about twentysomethings coming to grips with the fact that they won't live forever (and it's certainly not the deepest, as it lingers in your memory for about as long as a Snapchat), but it might just be one of the funniest.

We see them struggling in coming to grips with their situations and adjusting to everyday life.

In «Last Flag Flying,» director Richard Linklater comes to grips with a reality of life that most people (and movies) would prefer to deny: Bad things can happen from which there is no recovery.

The guy who peaked too early and who now has to come to grips with the fact that his life will never again be as...

The Cake Eaters — 7/57 Releasing — Mary Stuart Masterson's small town drama about two families coming to grips with the trauma of change in their lives, starring Melissa Leo among others.

Coming to grips with the inescapable future is the final step, but he must first try one last thing to gain control of and in his life and perhaps serve a purpose.

Born on February 17th, 1981, Joseph Gordon - Levitt is turning 34 years old today and while most of us in our late 20's / early 30's may only now be coming to terms with our life goals and careers, Gordon - Levitt has had a grip on his from the beginning.

«The great struggle in life is coming to grips with what that price is» Later, the philosopher of mammon tells Fletcher that he loves «things» because «they never disappoint.»

The cinematic equivalent of Bruce Springsteen's «Glory Days,» it's a movie about fond reminiscences as well as the receding tide of the big - haired new wave — a bunch of friends and part - time rivals coming to grips with social and familial responsibilities and the fact that the best times of their lives might still be in front of them, if only they could stop looking over their shoulders.

Last we left Wade Wilson, he'd reunited with his gal and had come to grips with the whole» [email protected] # $ ed up facial scars and indestructible genetic mutation» piece of his life.

The first half of the movie deals with life, loss and coming to grips with moving on.

Even though the film largely plays up absurdity, the surprising aspect about it is that there is an underlying sympathy to Beth that makes it feel like a bit of a tragic romance as she tries valiantly to continue to live a normal life, but must come to grips with the nature of what she has become.

The Velveteen Rabbit (G) Screen adaptation of Margery Williams» children's classic features a mix of live - action and animation in a modern fairytale about a lonely little boy being who comes to grips about being raised by his strict grandfather with the help of a stuffed animal magically transformed into a real rabbit.

The biggest challenge for humanity in the years ahead just might be coming to grips with the idea that we are all in this together — we are living in a world that's more interconnected than ever and more competitive than ever.

Most importantly, it takes seriously what it means to understand the relationship between how we learn and how we act as individual and social agents; that is, it is concerned with teaching students how not only to think but to come to grips with a sense of individual and social responsibility, and what it means to be responsible for one's actions as part of a broader attempt to be an engaged citizen who can expand and deepen the possibilities of democratic public life.

Wentworth: Even though creating these tactile manipulatives to convey visual concepts is a passion of mine, helping students who are losing their eyesight come to grips with this significant emotional event, overcome it, and then realize they can still run with life is the most rewarding aspect of my job.

Living in a time of breathtaking change, each in his own way came to grips with the history being made by turning to brushes and canvases, the results often eliciting awe and praise, and sometimes scorn.

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In Image Problem, he comes to grips with past perspectives: The solution may therefore be / to narrow the zone of reaction to a pinprick / and ignore what went on before, even when we called it life.

Woodsmall's depiction of Amish life feels true, and Quill and Ariana's struggle to come to grips with their feelings for each other and their place in the bigger world is absorbing.

The hero and heroine in Destiny's Embrace are endearing and it's a pleasure to watch them struggle as they come to grips with an attraction so powerful that it creates a sea change in both their lives.

And as the true meaning of this one crucial day is revealed, they must come to grips with the nature of love and life itself.