Sentences with phrase «many painful reminders»

The paper also got a very painful reminder of how dangerous it can be to accept what politicians say at face value, when its reporting on the lead - up to the Iraq War turned out to be a tissue of lies fed to one of its reporters.

The whole experience was a painful reminder of how victims of war can be found on both sides of the gun.

At best it has been regarded as a reluctant concession to human sin and frailty, a painful reminder of our failure to fulfill the exalted standards which God holds for marriage.

In our universal bereavement, like grieving parents, we have put away all painful reminders of our loss.

The coin bears the image and title Tiberius Caesar, son of the Divine Augustus — idolatrous words and a painful reminder of oppression to a conquered people.

There were too many painful reminders on this Sunday for Jets fans.

After Jesuit did just that — lost its last game — Barbe committed himself to lead the team to a victory in this season's final game, with a painful reminder of 2013's pain as motivation.

Yesterday served as a painful reminder about how far we have slid down the table.

What should be a joyous day turns into painful reminder that not everything goes the way you plan.

Sometimes, the act of giving birth can be a painful reminder of traumatic events that have occurred earlier in their lives leaving them feeling powerless and victimized.

Closed manufacturing plants, empty storefronts and lost jobs are painful reminders that, though our economy is rebounding, Upstate New York is lagging behind.

Led by Reps. Jerry Nadler, Joe Crowley and Dan Donovan, New York members of Congress wrote to Secretary of State Rex Tillerson, urging him to use his influence to ensure that Jakiw Palij — a convicted Nazi guard — is deported, so New Yorkers and Americans are not forced to live with «a painful reminder for Americans who fought against the Nazis or lost loved ones in the Holocaust.»

«As you are well aware, the recent felony convictions of both Sheldon Silver and Dean Skelos are painful reminders that the New York State Legislature can not maintain the business - as - usual approach that has failed taxpayers and eroded the public trust,» Kolb said in the letter.

Thankfully, the wilful premeditated murder of serving police officers is still a rarity but this week was a painful reminder of the risks they take every day of their working lives.

But as its patent expires on November 30 and its first generic competitor takes the stage, Lipitor is also a painful reminder of the challenge that such «patent cliffs» pose for the big drug companies, including Lipitor's developer Pfizer, based in New York.

For Remo, a scientist at the Harvard - Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, Bolden's statement serves as a painful reminder that we, as a country and a world community, have done little to prepare humankind to fend off asteroids bound for Earth, even though it's within our means to do so.

The holidays can be a painful reminder of loved ones who've passed on, especially when it's the first holiday season you have to endure without them.

And when Valentine's Day is focused on romantic dinners for two or coupled walks on the beach, it can be a painful reminder of what we lack.

It's classic sitcom shtick, and The Dilemma is a painful reminder that director Ron Howard was trained in television.

For others, this will serve as a painful reminder of the great acting talent of James Gandolfini we lost earlier this year.

Despite Spielberg's best attempts to make mawkish Lincoln's words and actions, they resonate still as stirring, painful reminders that maybe you only get one Lincoln, and now he's gone and we have to figure all this shit out for ourselves.

When terminally ill army buddy Henry (David Strathairn) arrives on Jake's doorstep, the hermit is forced to bear the responsibility of raising his friend's half - Vietnamese daughter Lenny (Zoe Weizenbaum), whose presence is a painful reminder of the past.

She arrives on the anniversary of the loss of the wife to take the man's children with her to the city, thereby removing a pair of painful reminders of the man's grief.

Javert stares out at Notre Dame from the roof of the Conciergerie; the proletarian rebels crawl about the towering, moldering Elephant of the Bastille (a painful reminder, no doubt, to Baz Luhrmann that he's not the only director who can kill off his pretty heroines with tuberculosis).

Each time the couple touch is another painful reminder to Lila that she is single.

Greek helmer Yorgos Lanthimos» purest and painful reminder that love reigns is measuring off against Justin Kurzel's...

Greek helmer Yorgos Lanthimos» purest and painful reminder that love reigns is measuring off against Justin Kurzel's paranoia bliss and Andrew Haigh's in it for the long term portrait received the most nominations for the upcoming 2015 British Independent Film Awards.

Last week, the United States got a painful reminder that making student achievement a higher priority couldn't be more urgent when a major global study ranked American kids just 17th in reading, 21st in science, and 26th in math — behind countries such as Estonia, Poland and Vietnam.

A «stone mattress» in the titular tale of this short story collection serves as a painful reminder of past events.

Perhaps it was because the baby was failing to thrive, or perhaps it was to protect Placidia, and to ease the painful reminder of the violence she endured.

I'm calling them a repercussion, a necessary and painful reminder of the way that mass shootings have become part of the American consciousness.

Driven by painful reminders of opportunity left unseized, he roams, tirelessly seeking the next in a growing collection of Crimson Confessions.

Tax season can be a painful reminder of how well, or poorly, you tracked and budgeted your lifestyle the previous year.

The hammering was a painful reminder of the risks that go along with small caps.

None of these transactions are the norm, but they serve as painful reminders of what happens when everyone — buyers, sellers, agents, lawyers — get caught up in a frenzied market.

For others, these things are a painful reminder of what they have lost and are quickly hidden away.

The look of pure sadness on one dog's face after realizing she's been left at the shelter is a painful reminder of the loss thousands of abandoned dogs face every year.

There are a hundred daily routines she won't be part of anymore and each one, right now, is an unexpectedly painful reminder of her absence.

Kitty Block, HSI's vice president, said from Seoul: «Humane Society International has now rescued and rehomed 186 dogs from South Korea's brutal dog meat trade, and every time we see these lucky guys happy in their new families, it's a painful reminder of those still suffering on these farms.

But I will also say that this game will be a painful reminder of how uncomfortable the Vita is to the human hand, so get a comfort grip before you get this game.

In many respects it's a true achievement for the medium, but in others it's a painful reminder as to why this era has been kept so isolated from interactive entertainment.

As the Champions of Hyrule whisper amongst themselves in what is chronologically the first memory, seeing Link is a constant and painful reminder that Zelda is not able to awaken the power to seal the darkness within herself, despite the extreme efforts she has expended trying to do so.

Yet for those of us who played these three games to death, this collection will serve as a painful reminder that we haven't seen new WipEout material on a home console in a long time.

But the game is a painful reminder that I really suck at Mario games lol

That's the world imagined by this demo on Microsoft's HoloLens headset, which maps graphics to your surroundings, and it's both exciting for future possibilities and a painful reminder of just how limited our Pokémon hunting experience still really is.

What we have instead is a painful reminder of how the frailties of mortals can outweigh the claims of myth.

Although the portraits are a painful reminder for the people who once lived there, they actually piece together the happy life that existed in the apartment building during its heyday.

It's also a painful reminder of how far modern consoles have come, as the SNES Classic has annoyingly short controller cables and some puzzling design quirks.

Across the country, this was a painful reminder of how careful our members have to be in their day - to - day lives.

I wondered if that's why my ex walked away from all those cherished possessions — they're a painful reminder of all that we've lost.