Sentences with phrase «forget painful memories»

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Our sometimes tranquil circumstances can easily cause us to repress the memory of the millions of people both today and in the past who have been displaced, slaughtered and eventually forgotten throughout human history's painful transitions.

Woodruff used the site to catalyze a discussion contrasting American society with the one in The Giver, in which individuals readily surrender memories in the belief that past events are burdensome, painful, and best forgotten.

By trying to reinvent herself she is trying to forget all the horrible and painful memories that have haunted her for most of her life.

As she prepares to take her stand, she stumbles upon an old pendant of her mother's and, slowly, her memory starts to return - specifically, recollections of a shocking and painful childhood, a sister who was sent away to Ireland, and the wicked stepmother she swore to forget.

This plays into how architecture and its decorative components can be emotional in themselves as well as catalysts for eliciting buried memories that are either forgotten, painful, pleasant or nostalgic.

We deliberately forget or distort painful memories.