Sentences with phrase «haunted by the thought»

Looking back, McManus says he was haunted by this thought: «What a shame to leave the company with so little to show for it because you didn't set up the management.»

But i'm haunted by the thought daily that i have accidentally committed this sin or something and maybe there is just no possible turning back for me.

As he writes in an excerpt from a memoir recently published in The New Yorker, he began to be haunted by the thought of «the ancientness of the Mass — that it and its antecedents very likely go farther back into the human past than any other existing ceremony....

But Miliband will today be haunted by the thought that while Thatcher and Major were gone from Tory governance post-1997, Balls is Labour's Shadow Chancellor.

As Kenneth Nealson, a University of Southern California geobiologist and Jet Propulsion Laboratory visiting scientist, recently told the journal Nature: «The field is haunted by thinking you've detected life on Mars and finding that it's Escherichia coli from Pasadena.»

Standing in the Welfare Line Phil Dee, 27 May 2005 Phil is haunted by the thought of failure, and faces up to the harsh or is it not - so - harsh reality of the first weeks as an out - of - work scientist.

Are you haunted by thoughts of writing your assignments in a professional manner?

I was haunted by the thought of so much suffering — a vivid reminder of the absolute necessity of spay / neuter.

Not exact matches

Whereas earlier theology spoke of God as Goodness as such, whose every act (by virtue of divine simplicity) expresses His nature, the spectre that haunts late Scholastic thought is a God whose will precedes His nature, and whose acts then are feats of pure spontaneity.

In the most haunting scene in the film, sometime in the middle of the wintry night after he drives by Akron, Ohio, where he knows his two - year old child lives, whom he until recently thought was aborted, Davis encounters one of those cats again, apparently one he abandoned, when it darts out in front of his car.

And it is time to do so in the name of those who, like our young man, are still haunted by anxieties, because they think they can continually neglect the other realities of their beings as persons.

«Philosophy has been haunted by the unfortunate notion that its method is dogmatically to indicate premises which are severally clear, distinct, and certain; and to erect upon those premises a deductive system of thought.»

But I think of the Last Supper as haunting in another way as well — not just as a kind of shadowy dream of an event long past but also as a kind of foreshadowing of an event not all that far in the future, by which I mean our own last suppers, the last time you and I will sit down with a handful of our own closest friends.

In thinking about this, one is haunted by a sickening possibility.

Sometimes, i think his move away to an average (with due respect, they may be a top team in turkey, but i dn't rate em outside) turkish team has something to do with being haunted by his past....

I also tend to think Arsene Wenger is also haunted by his lack of Englishness in the squad which was once branded a French side.

«I think the party was, for a long time, haunted by the scars of the 1992 general election.

Even since the 30 Dates, the only date I can think of where I really wanted to make an escape was the Smeeters date with the vile Ringleader — a man who has since attempted to haunt the blog, by sending me various emails from fake accounts.

Starring Karl Urban (Dredd, Star Trek) and Michael Ealy (Think Like a Man), as a cop and his android partner in 2048, the show's shorthand synopsis sounds like an I, Robot clone — Urban's Detective John Kennex is as robot - weary and haunted by his past as Will Smith's Del Spooner was — but the comparison fades as Dorian (Ealy) comes onto the screen to join with the occasionally wooden Urban, providing enough chemistry to power the show.

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

Casting Scott Eastwood — this generation's answer to Chris Mitchum — as a Civil War veteran haunted by past misdeeds, Roeck aims for an homage to Eastwood Sr.'s revisionist Westerns (think The Outlaw Josey Wales, Unforgiven, etc.), but the result is pretentious and pointless.

After the usual rigamarole about shooting challenges and directorial perfectionism, someone asked Zhang Yimou what he thought the film was about, which he either answered honestly or deftly dodged by asserting that what he wanted people to take from the film, long after they've forgotten the plot, are the memories of certain images: two women in red fighting among swirling yellow leaves, two sorrowful men flying and dueling on a lake as still as a mirror, a sky of black arrows, a desert moonscape haunted by lonely figures in white.

Above its shortcomings, Watership Down is haunting (particularly a near - death nightmare underscored by Art Garfunkel's «Bright Eyes» and the impressionistic fate of the hero - rabbits» warren) and unusually thoughtful for something produced in what is still thought of in the United States as a children's medium.

Tony Stark (Downey Jr., The Judge), haunted by guilt of a young and promising teen's death resulting from his own perceived recklessness, signs on, thinking that this law will not only be inevitable, but that agreeing with it now saves them from a more severe implementation down the road.

Thoughts by TSR: Guillermo del Toro directing a haunted house film starring Emma Stone, Charlie Hunnam, and Benedict Cumberbatch is an idea I love.

TriStar Pictures has acquired the rights to The Toymaker's Secret, a haunted house script written by Garland that's being described as «family friendly,» which is not exactly the first thing you think of when you think about his existing movies.

Each Spanish Perfect Picture Stories for Excellent Writing Packet includes: • 4 pages of different 6 - framed pictures stories • stimulus questions for each story • vocabulary • lists of linking words, temporal words, transitional words and many more words for more better writing • guidelines for excellent writing using Prefect Picture Stories • simple rubric for easier grading and checklist for students The stories suggested by the 6 pictures are: 33 - A boy thinks that his pile of toys is haunted but he later finds out that a wind up toy is causing the problems.

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Not just any man — stunningly - sexy, aloof and mysterious — the man, who calls himself Orion, sends a jolt through his body that he's never even come close to experiencing before.After that strange and enchanting night, Hunter becomes obsessed by Orion, who haunts his dreams and lives in his thoughts.

It's haunted by old mythologies and out - of - date thinking, which directly reflect the lack of an evidence base for rescue.

What a fantastic little haunt this is and judging by the packed interior a lot of other folk think so to!

The letter is framed with an allusion to an oil lamp, but I'm pretty sure I didn't really write it by lamplight; I think I just liked the haunting glow of the oil lamps after dark, and I wanted to convey what it felt like to sit in the dim radiance of that isolated valley.

I loved exploring Paris by bike — but I think I only got to the usual tourist haunts!

More than once I have made a decision too hastily, without enough thought, and later on regretted it, haunted by the potentially unintended consequences of my actions.

This is a place haunted by vagrant and degenerate martyrs who have caved - in to a parody of existentialism and committed themselves to experience over abstractions of thought.

Look at The Dark Lady of 1947/85, dated c. 1968 on the verso: we know how he was haunted by Shakespeare and the address of the sonnets, thus the possible depth of this viewing and the bright — to contrast with the thinking of dark, we can imagine — splotches at the top.

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Weiss may not have thought much of them, but Nelson's dusty corridors, windowless rooms and cubby holes haunted by their missing inhabitants - where even years of accumulated grime had been worked on to desks and doors - was the surprise crowd - pleaser, with few able to resist a broad smile.

«Ghosts,» she says, explaining that the island evokes — or rather is haunted by — the spirits of a generation of men and women: artists, thinkers, people of color, the affluent, the middle class, the ignored, the displaced, those let down by their government, those who caught the disease too early, those who didn't realize they had caught it at all, those who thought they would never catch it but who did, all of those who were lost to the dark times when she first came to New York City in the early 1990s, at the height of the AIDS crisis.

For Tuesday Evenings, Hubbard and Birchler present the thoughts and means by which they produce mesmerizing, even haunting video imagery that captures what has been described for the Liverpool Biennial as the «momentary narrative» of a solitary figure in an architecturally constructed space and time.

Although the latter was a mistake as now I am haunted by nauseating thoughts of Pratt in a thong.