Sentences with phrase «long shadow of the war»

Set in post-war England, it features a curate just outside of Cambridge, a detective inspector, a murder, unattainable love, the gap between who we are and who we wish we could be, the long shadow of the war, and a delightful cast of characters who have become surprisingly dear to me.

And in The Lie (2014), Daniel, a soldier, returns from World War I, as «one of the lucky ones» - a survivor — but what Dunmore calls «the long shadows of war» beset him as he tries to establish a life and future in Cornwall.

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As I walk the streets, I sense war and Islamophobia are casting shadows over the poll in Oldham West and Royton, caused by the death of long - standing left - wing MP Michael Meacher.

Thanos, having stood in the shadows for so long, is possibly too powerful for the current roster of characters in the MCU now that they're face to face, but if one thing's for sure - Avengers: Infinity War is a story of gods.

At the hour he'd always choose when the shadows were long and the ancient road was shaped before him in the rose and canted light like a dream of the past where the painted ponies and the riders of that lost nation came down out of the north with their faces chalked and their long hair plaited and each armed for war which was their life and the women and children and women with children at their breasts all of them pledged in blood and redeemable in blood only.

In the shadow of the Vietnam war «with the near - complete failure of the 1968 protest movements in Paris and elsewhere and with the Vietnam War uninterrupted, her spare canvases no longer looked right to hwar «with the near - complete failure of the 1968 protest movements in Paris and elsewhere and with the Vietnam War uninterrupted, her spare canvases no longer looked right to hWar uninterrupted, her spare canvases no longer looked right to her.