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

After the war, although he never consciously embraced the German process of Vergangenheitsbewältigung (the process of coming to terms with the past), he once remarked: «It's just there.

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The story of a reserved English butler slowly coming to terms with his dark past, The Remains of the Day by Kazuo Ishiguro clearly touched a nerve with the Amazon founder.

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.

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.

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.

John B. Cobb, Jr., formulates the issue thus: «Every occasion must come to terms with the whole of its past, but it is causally effected by nothing contemporary with it.

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.

The German international has failed to agree terms on a contract extension over the past year, and with his current deal set to expire come the end of the campaign, he looks ever likely to be leaving the club.

(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.

Supporters of the Child Victims Act say many victims are unable to come to terms with their past and muster the courage to seek help until long after that age.

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».

I've covered quite a few books on my blog over the past year or two, all of them being related to ethical fashion on varying levels, however, I've never read or reviewed a fictional book until I discovered A Harvest of Thorns and realised that fiction could be another way to help people understand and come to terms with fast - fashion.

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, «Kung Fu Panda 2» is at its finest when focusing on the internal churn of the characters, watching Po and even Tigress (who's warming up to her rotund partner) come to terms with their fractured past, helping them achieve the special yin - yang balance of inner peace needed to defeat Shen.

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.

Still, his performance captures the inner turmoil of a man coming to terms with the past and also the future.

Traveling to accept an honorary degree, Professor Isak Borg — masterfully played by veteran director Victor Sjöström — is forced to face his past, come to terms with his faults, and make peace with the inevitability of his approaching death.

Flashbacks showing Enslin's past with his wife (Mary McCormack) and now - deceased daughter (Jasmine Jessica Anthony) become the real demons, and that portrayal of a man who has yet to come to terms with his own grief makes up for the crazy, perplexing inverted labyrinth of a finale.

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.

What follows is a journey into Jessie's mind as she comes to terms with an unspeakable trauma from her past while trying to figure a way out of a rather unique situation.

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

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.

The two of them go on a day - long journey that causes Elle to come to terms with her past and Sage to confront her future.

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.»

I began making films [out of] a deep need... to come to terms with my family's history and suffering, to make sense of the past and to explore my own personal terrors, both mental and spiritual, and to examine the destructive nature of Catholicism.

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.

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.

Another character, Vic, is central to the book: he appears as an awkward adolescent fixated on unattainable older girls, as a young man coping with the legacy of his father's alcoholism and abandonment, and as a middle - aged man unable to come to terms with his past.

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.

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?

According to BBD, «the novel tells the story of a woman whose gift for flowers helps her change the lives of others even as she struggles to come to terms with her own troubled past as a foster child.

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.

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 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.

What he finds, among the forgotten mines and decrepit barracks of former gulags, is a world relegated to oblivion, where it is easier to ignore both the victims and the executioners than to come to terms with a terrible past.

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 own.

This book definitely reflects all of that, his honesty shows through, his love for his son and wife, his faith and the coming to terms with his past.

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.

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.

So far, Cyclops, Jean Grey, Angel, Iceman and Beast have had to endure a vast amount of surprises including coming to terms with their own pasts and present — but there's even more to come.