Sentences with phrase «haunted by memories»

Like most true warriors, he never told war stories, and like most sensitive souls (he sang opera and read Gibbon), he was quietly haunted by memories of battle.

Haunted by memories of Africa or the trauma of the Middle Passage, Saar's journeys remind us that history is not simply the recording of past events - it is a living, breathing entity, filling the space of our present and shaping contemporary identities.

The most notable point in both halves of act 1, besides the use of the Silverback mech suit, is that both Marcus and Cole are haunted by memories of their past.

Now at seventeen, she is still haunted by memories of that day and driven by the need to understand why it happened.

Slowed by a wooden leg and haunted by memories of the Korean War, Rory runs bootleg whiskey for a powerful mountain clan in a retro - fitted»40 Ford coupe.

Instead, after an act of unforeseen treachery, Felix is living in exile in a backwoods hovel, haunted by memories of his beloved lost daughter, Miranda.

But in her quieter moments, Darling is haunted by her memories of...

As a child, Meers Logan was haunted by memories of another time and place, always accompanied by the faint strains of elusive music.

Haunted by memories and inculcated beliefs, they must confront the Church's teachings.

Lily is haunted by memories — of who she once was, and of a person, long gone, who defined her existence.

Already haunted by memories of an unhappy childhood, a glimpse of the little girl in the neighboring house further destabilizes Ruthie.

Alone, haunted by memories, he tries to become again the man he was before the war — honest, strong, capable of moral choice.

Jamie McAllan, Laura's brother - in - law, is everything her husband is not - charming, handsome, and haunted by his memories of combat.

He is also haunted by the memories of his childhood growing up with an abusive alcoholic father.

But this time he's haunted by memories of New York (see The Avengers) that keep him awake for days on end, throw him into panic attacks and plunge a wedge between him and his live - in lover Pepper Potts (Gwyneth Paltrow).

The main characters are a veteran who's haunted by memories of Southeast Asia, and his teen - age niece, who's full of questions about her father, who died there.

The mind mojo that Scarlet Witch hexes the team with shows them all visions that disorient them so much that the bad guys get away and the entire team is haunted by these memories throughout the rest of the film.

Max, a former jazz pianist who never quite made it, sits alone in a house haunted by memories, mostly of his wife Eva (the great Claire Bloom) who has just died.

Churchill is haunted by memories of his World War I disaster.

James Cameron, meanwhile, should be haunted by memories of «Titanic» going 0 - for - 10 back in the 1997 race; BAFTA is often wary of Hollywood blockbusters with no vested British interest.

Jamie McAllan (Garrett Hedlund is everything his older brother Henry is not and is sensitive to Laura's plight, but also haunted by his memories of combat.

In Lavender, Abbie Cornish «s character Janie is haunted by memories old and new.

Daniel Grove's neon - soaked feature debut follows reformed mobster Behrouz, who is haunted by memories of being a child soldier in Iran in the 1980s.

Brian Presley («Port Charles», «General Hospital») suffers from the inability to focus on any particular job, haunted by the memories of not being able to save his best friend during the altercation.

Time is both inescapable and irretrievable in Alain Resnais's boldly disorienting masterpiece, which stars Delphine Seyrig as a widow haunted by her memories of World War II.

Martha Marcy May Marlene stars newcomer Elizabeth Olsen as Martha, a damaged woman haunted by her memories and increasing paranoia, who struggles to reassimilate with her family after fleeing a cult.

WAKING THE DEAD This is the strongest romance of the year, a time - shifting story about a congressional candidate (Billy Crudup) haunted by memories and visions of his one great love, an idealistic activist (Jennifer Connelly) who was killed by a terrorist bomb years earlier.

But this derivative fluff, memorably mocked (along with its myriad YA sci - fi cousins) last fall on «Saturday Night Live,» takes a turn toward interesting the moment Triss, haunted by memories of her slaughtered family, tells us how she wants this insurgency to end.

Jamie McAllan, Laura's brother - in - law, is everything her husband is not - charming and handsome, but he is haunted by his memories of combat.

Reef biologists over a certain age are haunted by memories of what glorious places Caribbean reefs once were.

We'd had hints from the YouGov and Survation polls that things were going to be close, but even those who allowed a few meagre rays of hope into their hearts were haunted by the memories of so many times the pollsters were wrong.

The state's population was sympathetic too — even on Long Island, a Republican stronghold but also a largely suburban region, haunted by memories of a 1993 shooting rampage on the Long Island Rail Road.

By 9 a.m. Wednesday morning, Mr. Seddio, haunted by memories of Brooklyn's loss of spoils in the last speakership fight in 2005, had agreed to a deal, effectively throwing Mr. Crowley and Mr. Heastie under the bus.

Friends say that Moore was haunted by memories of the two - strike, two - out, ninth - inning home run he gave up to Dave Henderson of the Boston Red Sox while pitching for the Angels in Game 5 of the 1986 American League Championship Series.

He was a hard - drinking, moody man haunted by memories of his service in World War II.

Lately he's been banging on about us being haunted by memories eg Liverpool last year, early season mistakes...

BHOPAL, India (AP)-- Three decades after lethal gas swept through Bhopal, the central Indian city remains haunted by memories of the world's worst industrial disaster.

Since then, he has found himself haunted by the memory of the five men whose lives he ended.

Mr. McCourry came home from war unable to escape scenes of an explosion that nearly killed him, and haunted by the memory of two young girls he accidentally killed in a fire fight.

It figures significantly in all five of his novels, usually as sons are haunted by the memory of their own fathers» refusal to go on with life.

Revenge thriller starring Anthony Hopkins as a man haunted by the memory of his daughter's death, who comes to the aid of a young woman who is being viciously harassed by a rogue cop.

Still, Rebecca is clearly a superior classic film, one that is immensely engrossing, leaving you forever haunted by its memory, much the way Rebecca does to those she left behind in this terrific story from Daphne du Maurier's novel.

It Was You Charlie, directed by Emmanuel Shirinian, follows Abner (Michael D. Cohen), a graveyard shift doorman with a lot on his mind: He's plagued by suicidal thoughts, haunted by the memory

She's bored, and is haunted by the memory of her recently deceased twin brother.

A country music superstar is haunted by the memory of the woman he jilted in favor of his career.

Wyllie complains that, «Jeremy Irons played a wistful, emotionally vulnerable Humbert Humbert, a victim of tragedy and grief, haunted by the memory of his lost love, Annabel Leigh, ruthlessly manipulated and inevitably betrayed by Lolita.»

Nick is haunted by the memory of Jay Gatsby (Leonardo DiCaprio), and seeks to work through the trauma by relating the story of a fresh - faced, starry - eyed Carraway coming to New York in 1922 to make his fortune.

But as you say, Alissa, fashion ultimately exists in this film as a way to give us information about Reynolds — about his fastidiousness, about his pride, about the way he's haunted by the memory of his mother — and his relationship with Alma, rather than to tell us anything about fashion.

Working with a budget of $ 42,000, Coppola used his own hastily assembled script about a wealthy family haunted by the memory of a tragic accident that occurred on the grounds of their Irish estate.

In fact, poor Logan is haunted by the memory of his dead lover Jean Grey (Famke Janssen), who died by Wolverine's own claws after she went on a homicidal tear as the Phoenix in X-Men Last Stand.