Sentences with phrase «emotional blow»

This rejection seems to be the minds buffer against a sharp emotional blow.

It was the fifth straight loss and a devastating emotional blow for the Padres, who at week's end had lost 12 of their last 17 games and, since July 4, 9 1/2 games to the Dodgers in the standings, going from five up to 4 1/2 down.

The public breakup was a devastating emotional blow to the city of Cleveland.

«Barry's skills are evident as he tenderly unspools Lilly's story, with a fine eye for intimate moments, but... the schematic way each additional emotional blow falls relentlessly, tugging at the reader's heartstrings with diminishing force.»

Short of the death of a loved one, the end of a long - term relationship is one of the most severe emotional blows you'll ever experience.

Moon may not be the best science - fiction film of 2009, yet it feels the most personal, its loving, handmade quality smoothing rough patches in the storytelling and landing the film's essential emotional blow.

A near - perfect mix of misfortune and humor, What They Had delivers one emotional blow after another, then shakes off the hurt and laughs in between.

White isn't so much grieving the loss — he hardly knew the man — but, rather, is concerned about his divorced mother Gail (a terrific Cynthia Nixon), who has stage 4 cancer and doesn't need the additional emotional blow.

Rejection of the truth is a way of buffering ourselves against a sharp emotional blow.

When they need to have an emotional blow - out, they may signal it by doing something they know you will stop, like pulling another child's hair, or by using a small pretext, like a broken cookie, as a «last straw» so that they can fall apart.

Even though their relationship after the divorce was not that great, it was still quite an emotional blow to him.

The 2012 suicide of Mary Richardson Kennedy amid her crumbling marriage to RFK Jr. was an emotional blow for her sister - in - law and best friend, Kerry Kennedy.

He's still reeling from the out - of - the - blue dissolution of his marriage, an emotional blow that has him roughly three fingers of whiskey away wandering the streets full - time.

Sadly, it is the innocent bystanders that seem to absorb the worst of the emotional blows.

We're left with a revelation that is meant to be an emotional blow but that instead comes off as a deceptive sucker punch.

And that makes its emotional blow hit twice as hard.

The loss was an emotional blow, but Hartigan continued to paint prolifically.

No doubt you've heard someone use the phrase, «hit me like a freight train» to describe a major illness or injury, or emotional blow — and with good reason.

When divorce strikes like a bolt from the blue, a dependent spouse has more than the emotional blow to deal with.

Majory Stoneman Douglas grad Anthony Rizzo struck an emotional blow for South Florida with a home run in the second inning that gave Chicago a 4 - 1 lead.

Instead, in order to obtain the desired corrective effects of negative feedback, you should take steps to soften the emotional blow.

Here are some quick tips to decrease the damage that emotional blows can do to the relationship.