Sentences with phrase «in coming to terms with the past»

The moving, urgent films by these three artists mark a new approach in coming to terms with the past.

Young Indigenous people variously speak of being alienated from both black and white communities, of difficulty in coming to terms with the past, of living somewhere «between two worlds», and being unable to find a point of balance (pp65 - 80).

Yet, precisely because it is such an important step in coming to terms with the past, and in achieving reconciliation, it is important that it be subject to fair - minded criticism.

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The article for me is even proof that more and more Christians are able to come to terms with their problems and face them rather than hide them and be ashamed as many would have done in the past.

A major concern of Cook's is the lack of communication between an aging father and his adult son — due in part to the father's inability to come to terms with his past.

He spoke movingly of how he had first had to come to terms with these questions when reporting on sexual abuse of minors in a Protestant missionary agency, and how the past year's reporting on the Catholic situation had posed for him painful ethical dilemmas with respect to issues of confidentiality, perspective, and the dangers of playing to stereotypes.

Purgatory is the time for coming to terms with the past, more specifically, all the woes, deficiencies, and sins that we could not muster sufficient sensitivity to in this earthy life.

Perhaps we can come to terms with the exploitations of the past, but should we complacently stand aside as the sacred mountain of the Navajos is strip - mined and the ecology of their region destroyed in order to produce more electricity to meet the insatiable demands of us Californians?

These Responsa, never regarded as inspired or authoritative in any official sense, have nevertheless been an influential factor in enabling the Jew to come to terms with a world of change and at the same time to maintain a feeling of continuity with the past of his people.

Thank you for your sweet words here Ksenia < 3 I've struggled with it so in the past, it seems that coming to terms and embracing it has only came through experiencing it over and over - patience is so a virtue, isn't it?

(As anyone who has been visiting MomsTEAM's Concussion Safety Center for the past twelve years knows, science and technology have yet to come up with a way to prevent concussions; the most we can realistically hope to do at this point is a better job of identifying concussions when they occur and managing them in such a way as to keep the recovery time to a minimum and to keep kids from returning before their brains have fully healed so as to minimize the risk of serious, long - term effects, or even, in rare cases, death).

Therefore, understanding these people, it should come as no surprise they want the Western population to think in anti-human terms with breastfeeding a thing of the past.

Barely three months ago, the battle for tomorrow was being played out in disagreements between liberal and progressive groups aiming to come to terms with a bloody imperial past.

Blair informed Hattersley that he was worried about «hurting Gordon» to which Hattersley replied that he should tell Gordon Brown that there had been,»... a lot of people in the past who had wanted to be leader of the Labour Party and have come to terms with the fact that they weren't going to be» and that Brown would have to be part of a line that «goes back a very long way».

This will help you to come to terms with the fact that even if it didn't work in the past, you have great qualities that will be appreciated by someone else.

Online dating is a perfect way to get back on the dating scene and if you have been unlucky in the past or perhaps just come out of a long term relationship then chatting and connecting with likeminded singles in Darlington is a great way to put a smile back on your face.

Yet he knows he must somehow come to terms with his past if he hopes to defeat Lord Shen in the future.

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As the English patient is slowly and painfully compelled to remember his tragic past in pre-war North Africa, the nurse comes to terms with herself and her luck.

One of her allies in the fight is a young Austrian journalist (Daniel Brühl) who struggles to come to terms with his own attitudes about the past.

The Wave is a powerful and at times horrifying film that uses the natural advantage of its setting to make comment on the preconceptions and prejudices that must exist in a country still coming to terms with its past.

A man and woman fall in love while coming to terms with their own tragic pasts and the true nature of the afterlife.»

America specifically is in a constant struggle to come to terms with its past atrocities, and racism looms large even as the more privileged would like to wave it off as a disease that's long been cured.

One of the few negative reviews, written by Ed Power for www.independent.ie, complains of the film's relative lack of fisticuffs: «Black Panther spirals into a stodgy tale of internecine feuding, in which T'Challa is required to come to terms with the sins of past generations,» Powers writes.

While the President (Morgan Freeman) tries to maintain order in the land, a team of experts led by a famed astronaut (Robert Duvall) attempts to stop the comet and an ambitious journalist (Tea Leoni) resolves to come to terms with her past.

Both films are the feature directorial debuts of talented women filmmakers and both center on complicated women trying to come to terms with tragedies in their pasts.

However, once you get past the fact that Ted Post, who directed Eastwood in the spaghetti Western wanna - be Hang Em High, has chosen to mostly ignore the first film's visual appearance, it's easy to enjoy Magnum Force as a straight - forward action vehicle, with a tongue - in - cheek premise of the dirtiest cop on the force coming to terms with his own feelings as far as seeing known criminals get away with murder.

Using a combination of her feminine guile and a sudden disposition for weapons and explosives, Jane must fight off the clan of invading Bishop Boys while also coming to terms with the losses in her past that have made her the woman she is today.»

Her story is told in an extended flashback, bookended by the elderly Elle - Marja's reluctant return to Lapland to attend her sister's funeral, an event which forces her to come to terms with her past.

When a snowstorm strands former professional hockey player Eric LeMarque (Josh Hartnett) atop the Sierra Nevada Mountains for eight days, he is forced to face his past and come to terms with his personal demons and rediscover the power of faith within him in order to survive.

As she gradually comes to terms with a tragedy in her past, Sabine's professional and personal interactions with André bring out honesty, compassion, and creativity in both of them.

«The Bourne Ultimatum» is ultimately more of the same, with Matt Damon «s amnesiac secret agent still struggling to come to terms with his past (and make things right in his present).

Watching Todd Haynes's seventh feature, Wonderstruck, it's hard not to think about certain hallmarks of the director's previous films: the sense of yearning and isolation found in Safe and Far from Heaven; the fixation on personal and historical past as characters come to terms with being outsiders in Velvet Goldmine; even the use of Barbie dolls as stand - ins for real people in Superstar: The Karen Carpenter Story.

When David faces a tragedy of his own and loses his will to live, Michael must come to terms with his past in order to help save his son.

Unable to come to terms with his father's horrifying secret, Colin decides to live «visibly invisible» on the streets - but events force him to confront the past and his new found place in the world.

The younger generation grew up in a more open - minded society, one that was wrestling with past injustice but was not actively participating in it, and the older generations have come to terms with the mistakes that they may not have contributed to, but that they lived through.

In plain words, this small, riveting novel connects the anguish in one American family with the struggle of South Africa to come to terms with its savage pasIn plain words, this small, riveting novel connects the anguish in one American family with the struggle of South Africa to come to terms with its savage pasin one American family with the struggle of South Africa to come to terms with its savage past.

However, in this book the wounds are deeper as Sybella must come to terms with her past and how her secrets tie and untie her to a knight who is the bane of her existence and her hope for the future.

In order to come to terms with that past, Fanny must put her trust and love in the hands of Colonel Sir Derek Sheldon, a man with secrets of his owIn order to come to terms with that past, Fanny must put her trust and love in the hands of Colonel Sir Derek Sheldon, a man with secrets of his owin the hands of Colonel Sir Derek Sheldon, a man with secrets of his own.

Thirty years later and on the other side of the world, June and Hector are reunited in a plot that will force them to come to terms with the mysterious secrets of their past, and the shocking acts of love and violence that bind them together.

The union leaders have blown past their second deadline without coming to terms with the Boston Globe «s owners — or, at least, the four unions haven't all successfully met the terms dictated by The New York Times Co. for keeping the Globe in business.

More importantly, it is the story of how I came to terms with my past, learned to live happily in the present, and how I built the bridge that would get me over it...

I also have a hard time getting past the inherent hypocrisy of the Big 6's laments about unfair practices, when they themselves played a huge part in running the indies out of business by refusing to negotiate terms for the indies that even came close to the terms negotiated with the big box stores.

Over the past decade or so, researchers have learned so much about canine genetics, the differences and similarities between dogs and wolves, the evolution of the domestic dog, and the niche the dog came to inhabit in terms of its relationship with humans.

So often fraught with scandals and mafia involvement in the past, it seems that Naples is finally coming to terms with the dark side and addressing its prominent cultural influence instead.

Once again, as they do so well, Nintendo proves that just when you thought you might be done with the past, the past sure as heck ain't done with you: You will be a cold skeleton in the hard earth before you even come to terms with being able to think about milking every trinket out of this game.

I came to terms with relinquishing control of the gallery to Dan so he could organize this anniversary show the same way he had on occasions in the past.

In 1968, she went to Documenta, an international art show in Germany, and was bowled over by the freshness and originality of the work on display by a new generation of artists seeking to come to terms with their nation's pasIn 1968, she went to Documenta, an international art show in Germany, and was bowled over by the freshness and originality of the work on display by a new generation of artists seeking to come to terms with their nation's pasin Germany, and was bowled over by the freshness and originality of the work on display by a new generation of artists seeking to come to terms with their nation's past.

In the not very distant past — you could call it the «long noughties» — it appeared that the more painting struggled to come to terms with historical trauma, photography, and the historical trauma of photography, the more bankable it was.

Interested in popular culture, neuroscience and the conceptual potentialities of teleportation, he uses the Internet to help reimagine identity in order to come to terms with a broken past.