Sentences with phrase «open old wounds»

So many couples use disagreements as an excuse to bring up past hurts and open old wounds.

I do not want to open old wounds in this thread, but in order to explain what I mean I will have to risk that by explaining them it may lead to a diversion into discussion of their merits.

Why rip open old wounds if you were going to deny us.

In this installment of what will become a trilogy, Commander Gabriel is again facing an uncertain mission but with a crew of new faces; his success depends on returning to an outer planet and open old wounds of losing his squad.

What eventually happens in and out of «Room» is best left for the audience to experience, but what can be said is that the events open old wounds, create new ones and lead to some healing.

They were young lovers and now they meet again years later, when Laura (Penelope Cruz) comes from Argentina to her Spanish hometown with her two children to celebrate a family wedding and Paco (Javier Bardem) is there to greet her - and maybe to open some old wounds from the past.

Much like how the Avengers curiously never show up to help each other in their respective solo movies, the attempt to explain Brian's absence in this film (especially considering the personal nature of the main plot) only serves to open old wounds.

Two GamesRadar editors rip open old wounds as they take sides in one of the greatest rivalries in gaming history...

I've wanted to pull the plug that sustains the dumb Hollywood action vehicle for most of my lifetime; seeing such films replicated isn't funny to me — it's just tearing open old wounds.

As fixation gives way to obsession, Liam's suspicions threaten to tear open old wounds between him and Fi — and perhaps cause permanent damage to their marriage.

As Anna's arrival tears open old wounds all three are forced to reckon with their past and uncertain futures.

The humor derives mainly from the fact that 1) Andy's new friends aren't quite the experts they think they are and 2) he's made his peace with his virginity and really doesn't want them tearing open old wounds.

If this Kumbaya imam is really about «healing» and the moderate face of Islam, the why rip open old wounds so they can not heal and proceed with an in your face style?

Is it good strategy to open old wounds?

Others assert that King's accomplishments are so fully imprinted on American hearts and institutions that we needn't dwell on them and open old wounds; we should assume them and move on.

«The anniversary has already opened old wounds for Camilla, people are being reminded of the fact that she was instrumental in ending this marriage that was described as a fairy tale,» said Morton, who has released a revised version of his book to mark 25 years since its release.

But for Beth Rosser, the co-owner and vice president of Triad Building Specialties, every one of the billionaire real estate mogul's political successes just opens old wounds.

Burr Ridge trustees opened an old wound with the Park District on Monday night when the Village Board voted 5 - 1 against a park plan to build a gymnasium.

Parenting has a way of opening old wounds, and those old wounds can even re-traumatize parents if they're not careful.

Mayor de Blasio opened an old wound with city police officers — saying the comments he made in 2014 about having had to «train» his biracial son, Dante, to «take special care» around cops should not have sparked controversy, because they are true.

Making sure the conflicts in Artemisium and Salamis were sufficiently bloodthirsty was Eva Green as the formidable commander Artemisia, who manipulated Rodrigo Santoro «s Xerxes into opening old wounds and settling scores with Greece.

But the task ends up tearing open an old wound, dredging up a family tragedy from their childhood and bringing the issues associated with it roaring into the present.

Featuring a fantastic ensemble cast made up of Jason Bateman, Tina Fey, Adam Driver, Corey Stoll, Jane Fonda, Rose Byrne, Kathryn Hahn, Connie Britton, Ben Schwartz, Timothy Olyphant, Aaron Lazar, Debra Monk, Abigail Spencer, and Dax Shepard, the story revolves around a dysfunctional family that is forced to come together and sit Shiva when their father dies, opening old wounds and reigniting passions that have long - since been repressed.

The return «home» opened old wounds from Ossorio's youth, including conflict about his sexuality and the effects of his devoutly Catholic upbringing.

The trip signaled his first time in the Philippines since his childhood, and it opened old wounds from his youth, prompting him to produce a stunning set of wax - resist paintings collectively known as the Victorias Drawings and centered on themes of childhood, birth, sexuality, mythology, and religion.

Not exact matches

In early April, a 39 - year old shooter opened fire at the headquarters of Google - owned video service YouTube, wounding several people before killing herself.

In 1996, a 28 - year - old man walked into a cafe in Port Arthur, Australia, ate lunch, pulled a semi-automatic rifle out of his bag, and opened fire on the crowd, killing 35 people and wounding 23 more.

Worse, now they were left with old wounds newly opened and not a clue about what to do with them in the future.

I do not wish to open up old wounds but the greatest irk I have against WENGER is the way he destroyed the career of an excellent player, Andrea Arshavin!

We had an abrupt, early end to the nursing relationship (at 7.5 months), and while it sometimes helps to talk about it, it also opens up old wounds.

I was pushing my almost 2 year old (at the time) in the swing at the park, and totally out of the blue he looked at me and said «Mama, wind opens doors» in this rather poetic way!

Once again, old wounds in the Labour Party have been ripped open.

The new political chemistry The new page in Kogi politics is opening new political alliances with old wounds still aching.

INWOOD — Two former Borough Presidents threw their support behind opposing candidates in the State Senate District 31 race this week — opening up old wounds in a longstanding political battle.

One party political broadcast opened with scenes of litter blowing in the Westminster wind — the broken promises of the «old parties».

Luke has had issues with «toxic poo» since he was just a few weeks old (any stool that touched the skin on his bottom would literally burn him and produce open wounds and welts).

(Still available in Burgandy, I wore in an old post) I did have to sew the slit up on the skirt a little bit because it was very open and the wind would try to expose everything under!

Two 16 - year - old boys have been shot and wounded after a gunman opened fire at a fast food restaurant in east London last night.

Particularly too much as everyone in his family, from wire Mary (Sally Field) to son Robert (Joseph Gordon - Levitt), are still suffering from the open wound of his oldest son's death some years earlier.

As the title character, a guy pausing at mid-life to lick his wounds, heal some old rifts and maybe open a few new ones, Stiller manages quite a nice performance.

Day - Lewis, performing for the first time in what seems like a long time in an accent and vocal timbre not unlike his natural one, is a tightly - wound wonder who becomes like an old - man kitten once Alma has reduced him to the «open and tender» state that she frequently desires of him.

But the opening of old wounds also causes her grown children to regard their mother from a new perspective.

The opening shot of Son Hayes (Shannon) putting on a shirt, where we see his back peppered with old wounds from shotgun pellets, says far more than any of the fight scenes that break out between the rival siblings.

The New World opens with Smith in the hold of his ship, in chains, reaching for the sunlight, an image mirrored by our first glimpse of Pocahontas (fifteen - year - old Q'Orianka Kilcher) as she plays in a field of Days of Heaven grain with her brother and sways with the wind.

The experience, of course, opens up old wounds.

It's later adapted into a famous play and the Stanley Kramer film Inherit the Wind (1960) nominated for four Oscars 1936 The Devil - Doll, a horror flick directed by Dracula's Tod Browning opens in US movie theaters starring Lionel Barrymore, who masquerades as an old womenfor nefarious purposes -LRB-!)

If anything, it exposes the older Hyrules a little (bar Wind Waker's glorious ocean) for the not - so - open worlds they are.

The 52,000 - student district requested the report on schools» capacity to handle students with mental and behavior needs after a 14 - year - old opened fire at a school last August, wounding two teachers and two other students before killing himself.

Underneath an old photo of a rickshaw winding through heavy automobile traffic, there was a question labeled critical thinking: «How does a rickshaw make travelers vulnerable on the open highway?»

Starting at the 1939 World's Fair and winding up with the end of the Apollo program in 1975, it follows a young boy and his father as they thrill to the possibilities that science and technology were opening up; a parallel story, written as an old - time adventure comic, brings in another dimension.