Sentences with phrase «longer festering»

The slain corpse of Michael Brown's body has decimated the myth that racism is no longer festering in our hearts.

The accounts also exposed anew long festering tensions or rivalries among House Minority Leader John Boehner and some of his deputies in the leadership.

«Make New History», the theme of the second Chicago Architecture Biennial — curated by Sharon Johnston and Mark Lee of Johnston Marklee & Associates — could be read as a provocative invitation for the US to address the wounds of its brutal past, which have long festered beneath a sanctioned collective amnesia.

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The absence of a deal on harmonized sales tax (HST) compensation — a long - festering source of tension between Ottawa and Quebec — seems to be the most important reason why the Bloc Quebecois 49 MPs plan to vote against the federal budget.

As long as we allow it to continue to fester in the public square, we will unfortunately have bigotry, hatred, and oppression of either one group or another or both.

According to the chaplains and such well - known cancer therapists as the Simontons (whose recent book bears the comic title Getting Well Again), 8 as long as the patient does not understand the relationship between person and cancer, the malignancy festers.

Damascus, Syria (CNN)- As the 18 - month - long Syrian conflict festers, the government and the opposition welcome and need Christian support.

My incapacity to make sense of the world as the creation of a personally caring Creator because of the magnitude of sin and suffering is, to extend the metaphor a long - festering sore that simply will not heal.

Long working hours, poverty accentuated by low wages, wretched housing, periodic unemployment, the menace to health and physical safety, intolerable conditions in crowded jails and prisons, and the deterioration of morals in festering slums evoked angry assaults on the system of which they were a feature and on the failure of the Church to remedy them.

«So long as those objections and criticisms were kept under wraps, they just sort of festered there,» Bushman said.

If you can't see for yourself that this is a travesty to the truth (fact) then you have delusional tendencies that will fester and grow until you can no longer tell reality from fantasy.

It wasn't until I connected with my wife's sorrow over my sin that I actually experienced godly sorrow for what I'd allowed to fester in my life for far too long.

You don't want fabric that is soiled with urine and feces to sit and fester for longer than that or it can cause damage to the diapers.

The best hope we have of achieving an open, integrated, and tolerant society is by encouraging our children to reject the prejudice and ignorance that we have allowed to fester for too long.

There is no middle ground and that's why this has gone on for so long and that's why it has literally festered for decades.

«Let's be clear, the Nassau Republican Machine has done enormous damage to the residents, businesses and taxpayers of Long Island, and they are all to blame for the continued corruption festering on the Island.

It is unfortunate for the president to have allowed these groups to fester over these long months since he took power.

I totally agree; it's necessary to let the frustration out so that it doesn't fester any longer than it needs to and then seek out solutions.

Those of you who are dying to hire a baby sitter and head out to see an anxiety - provoking thriller about a missing child and the long - festering racial tensions that erupt after his disappearance, please raise your hands.

The logic that fits the story together is clear, and its elements are resonant; the precision of its dramatic logic suggests psychological depths — long - festering family stories, sexual fantasies, the potential dangers of creative energy, and the self - definition of happiness — that few movies approach.

In what seems like an extended episode of the TV show, although it isn't in continuity by any means, Gomez (Julia, Presumed Innocent) finds that his long - lost brother Fester (Lloyd, Back to the Future Part III), who has been missing and presumed dead in a Bermuda Triangle debacle, may actually be alive after all when he shows up at the family home.

This sober, intelligent drama from the director of «Weekend» imagines a small upset in a long marriage that festers and grows into something painful over the course a week leading up to a forty - fifth anniversary party.

Nowhere are all the shades of Dina more apparent than in Girls Trip's climactic blowout, when the long - festering tensions between the Flossy Posse boil over into a drag - out fight.

When Blake arrives at his destination — a nightmarishly squalid settlement of festering meanness and pollution — he's told derisively by both Dickinson (Robert Mitchum), the blustering, hostile metal - works owner, and one of his henchmen (John Hurt) that they no longer need an accountant, having filled the position some time ago.

Black Panthermarks maybe the third time in the entire 18 - film MCU franchise that the villain has felt like anything approaching a real person, and Killmonger's arc is surprisingly moving — he's a man whose ache for a home he never knew has long since festered into resentment and rage.»

In good measure, the failures of the current system have festered as long as they have because many of the advocates of test - based accountability simply didn't want to face the evidence.

Chaired by former New York City schools chancellor Joel I. Klein and former U.S. secretary of state Condoleezza Rice, the task force said the country «will not be able to keep pace — much less lead — globally unless it moves to fix the problems it has allowed to fester for too long.»

«I'm writing it so that both students and college officials can understand the experiences of the new diversity in higher education and then understand what we need to do to fix some of the problems that have been growing and festering for too long.

Worse, it may not only enable inequity to fester, but also allow it to grow if inequity can no longer be measured accurately, or can only be measured at certain points in time where data allow it.

Arizona leaders dealing with an unprecedented teacher strike are paying the political price for long - festering resentment among many public school teachers.

This build - up can corrode your car's finish and paint if allowed to fester for too long.

Oates is equally unflinching in her inquiry into class and racial conflicts, and in her imaginative and intrepid variations on actual circumstances and crimes, from the limited choices of disadvantaged women in her Detroit - set National Book Award — winning them (1969) to Marilyn Monroe's disastrous celebrity in Blonde (2000) to a tale of the opposite lives of two college students in Black Girl / White Girl (2006) to the JonBenet Ramsey case and the horrors of the tabloid press in My Sister, My Love (2008) to the festering wound of a long - ago New Jersey lynching in The Accursed (2013).

You would never guess that behind the closed doors of her family's idyllic Long Island house hid teetering stacks of aging newspaper, broken computers, and boxes upon boxes of unused junk festering in every room - the product of her father's painful and unending struggle with hoarding.

That is, if they can put their bickering, grudges, festering relationships with their partners, and distrust of one another to the side long enough to act.

But he returned from France a different man and was not home long before those festering memories sent him drifting from one settlement to another, working as a lawman, and then disappearing altogether.

Amazon finally issued a public response to the festering battle with book publisher Hachette, claiming that the negotiating tactics it has pursued in contract talks are commonplace, justified and aimed at giving better long - term value to Amazon shoppers.

Developmental editing is my favourite phase, and I find that I need to allow a long time for things to «fester» in my head.

If an issue has been festering for years and family members no longer trust one another, you may want to consider bringing in an outside mediator to help propel the discussion forward.

And gone should be the days of enrolling consumers and letting them fester in long extended programs.

In his diary, Anselm Kiefer notes: «this heavy lead bandage that can no longer be detached from the paint skin, these festering sores welling out from the still boiling lead when the pigment beneath it is not bone dry, the little straws on a field that I painted years ago and that appear as charred leavings on the solidified lead — all this reminds me of the Baudelaire poems I reread last year.»

In his diary — which will partly be published in the catalogue accompanying the exhibition and gives prime access to the artist's creative process — Kiefer notes: «This heavy lead bandage that can no longer be detached from the paint skin, these festering sores welling out from the still boiling lead when the pigment beneath it is not bone dry, the little straws on a field that I painted years ago and that appear as charred leavings on the solidified lead — all this reminds me of the Baudelaire poems I reread last year in Portugal.»

Klein argues that the changes to our relationship with nature and one another that are required to respond to the climate crisis humanely should not be viewed as grim penance, but rather as a kind of gift — a catalyst to transform broken economic and cultural priorities and to heal long - festering historical wounds.

North had previously been chairman of the NAS panel on Surface Temperature Reconstructions, where he described their due diligence process as «not doing any research» and that they just «winged it» — the sort of due diligence failure when charged with responsibility that has allowed climategate to fester so long.

Or at the very least, it can be a time of intense stress, and it can cause tensions from other, long - festering disagreements to bubble to the surface.

Express your belief that resolving issues early on, before they are allowed to fester, is easier than reversing long - entrenched problems.

Regardless of how long you two have been arguing or somehow distancing yourselves from one another — recognize that there is a problem, and then decide that fixing an issue is so much less painful than letting it fester and grow.

Given that the pain endured for so long, one has to question whether indeed joint custody resolved it, or merely perpetuated it, no longer unseemly in public view but rather stuffed where it would fester interminably.

Meeting with an highly skilled and trained professional to resolve issues (sometimes before they even have a chance to occur) while you're both excited about the prospect of spending the rest of your lives together is much more enjoyable than waiting until after you're already married, and long - unaddressed issues fester into bitterness, disrespect, mistrust and resentment.