Sentences with phrase «painful history»

More comprehensive approaches to presenting the American experience are leading visitors to think about the contexts and consequences of sometimes painful histories.

«The long painful history of the church is the history of people ever and again tempted to choose power over love, control over the cross, being a leader over being led.»

Many API groups such as Chinese - and Japanese - Americans have painful histories in our country and many APIs have individually experienced racism and exclusion.

IRAN»S PAINFUL HISTORY THROUGH THE EARS & EYES OF A TEENAGER IN PERSEPOLIS Persepolis is a coming - of - age biopic based on a four - volume graphic book (subtitled The Story of a Childhood) that is portrayed on the screen through animation.

We spoke to Panoptic - director Rana Eid about filming painful histories, the collective process of reflection filmmakers in Lebanon are undertaking, and how her background in sound informed her debut feature.

In the unit's later lessons, students draw connections between this history and the present day, weighing questions like how to achieve justice and reconciliation in the aftermath of atrocities, how painful histories should be remembered, and how this history educates us about our responsibilities in the world today.

In measured, evocative prose, he weaves into the story of the stranger his own painful history and the dark secrets the villagers have fiercely kept hidden.

In our case at least, with our past painful history, we're ditching all debts — outside of planning to pay only half in cash for our house someday.

Like the Haitians who participate in Jacmel's annual Kanaval she rejects the celebratory visions typically associated with Mardi Gras festivals and instead identifies with utilizing costuming to subvert authority, exorcise painful histories, and evoke the tensions inherent in blending the often contradictory beliefs of Christian and African - based religions.

Like «Guatemala from 33,000 km,» their exhibition covers painful history.

There are also the problems that often accompany poverty that, coupled with Nashville's painful history of segregation and racial disparities in discipline practices, have perpetuated inequities among its students for decades.

As Rakhi attempts to divine her identity, knowing little of India but drawn inexorably into a sometimes painful history she is only just discovering, her life is shaken by new horrors.

But today, despite the painful histories and continued hardships to which I was exposed, I experienced a day of hope.

Speaking to an audience of party activists here, O'Malley called the police - custody death of Freddie Gray part of «a painful history in our country, a legacy that we continue to work on and work through and seek to overcome every day.»

The United Kingdom has a painful history of animal rights extremism that has included break - ins at laboratories, fire bombs, and the violent intimidation of researchers, animal breeders, building contractors working on laboratories, and companies that transport animals.

Now that I have a good grasp on my acne (thanks to diligent visits to the dermatologist, a little pill call spiranolactone, retinol cream, and obsessive compulsive babying of my face) I decided it was time to try and erase the painful history left of my cheeks.

The OC homeless crisis's most influential figure, the painful history of Latina sterilization, the fight against food inequality

I found the work deeply moving as it engages with the complex and painful history of Australia.

This painful history may account for the cult of honesty that sometimes makes life at Hyde feel like a free - floating session of Alcoholics Anonymous.

«I wanted to explore a painful history and a painful present.

Beddor spent five years writing The Looking Glass Wars, the shocking literary exposé that revealed how Lewis Carroll, author of «Alice's Adventures in Wonderland,» had willfully misrepresented the story of seven - year - old Alyss Heart, betraying the exiled princess of Wonderland by turning her painful history into a fairytale, when, in fact, it is a dark and dangerous depiction of familial treachery, thwarted love, and the despotic domination of imagination.

A former New York Times reporter, Kaiser brings a journalist's eye to uncovering one family's painful history.

Even though Beatty's novel is uniquely American, steeped in the painful history and ongoing discord that characterize race relations here, perhaps this universality is part of what the Man Booker Prize judges recognized and rightly rewarded.

Those with a painful history are apt either to forget or rewrite their history.

Her recent solo show Blood Sugar deals with the painful history of enslaved people, blood and sugar.

Exploring the painful history of American race relations through large - scale silhouette installations, Walker's work transforms historical materials, literary sources and popular culture, challenging us to access buried emotions about our nation's past.

A single work by Simmons is capable of evoking a multiplicity of meanings, simultaneously referencing a buried episode in the painful history of race relations in the United States and the artist's own childhood memories, for example.

Special attention is given to the painful history of West Papua, for instance in the work of Papuan painter Ignasius Dicky Takndare, who will also be present for the public program of the exhibition.

Dirty Corner will now be marked with hate and I will preserve these scars as a memory of this painful history.

Given this painful history, the president's almost testy press conference response — «if the message is somehow we're going to ignore jobs and growth simply to address climate change, I don't think anybody's going to go for that» — becomes more understandable.

Ex-couples should always recognize that their children are more important than the painful history that ended the marriage.

Affection may not be immediate and may lag behind attachment behavior for a variety of reasons, especially when a couple is overcoming a painful history.

There are also the problems that often accompany poverty that, coupled with Nashville's painful history of segregation and racial disparities in discipline practices, have perpetuated inequities among its students for decades.

The couple in Palmer's sorrowful song may have had a painful history that hindered them from trusting other people.

Many adopted and foster children have had very difficult and painful histories with their first parents.