Sentences with phrase «not coming to terms with the past»

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The great problems of history with which we must come to terms tend to appear to us not as members of a chain organically tied to the past and growing into the future, but as cataclysmic interruptions of the normalcy of peace and harmony, occasioned by evil men and evil institutions.

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.

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?

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.

At times a richly observed portrait of coming to terms with the traumatic events of the past when we're finally forced to, more often than not, the film's awkward tonal shifts lends the film a generally unpleasant ambience.

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.

Those documents indicate that even if CPS tapped the entirety of a $ 500 million line of short - term credit, akin to a district credit card, it still might not have enough money to cover all the bills coming due by the end of the month, meaning it will start the new budget year July 1 with past - due bills and an empty checking account.

This is not just a story of one man trying to come to terms with his past... - JLPen77 Do you think Daniel's life would have ultimately been better or worse if he'd listened to Myrna's advice that he should go home?

Karen Wunderman's first book Winterkill is a beautifully written coming of age story about a young girl growing up and coming to terms with her father's past which threatens to not only destroy her father but her family as well.

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.

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.

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.

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.

1 The fact that Cook's works succeed by the very terms established by Fried for painterly success — «being convinced that a particular work can stand comparison with the painting of the past whose quality is not in doubt» — reveals that, even if such a change has come to pass, in the hands of a select few artists, like Cook, it has reinvigorated rather than impoverished painting.