Sentences with phrase «painful reminder»

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.
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.
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.
If only...» Antonpuolos wrote in a Patreon post, explaining that while he felt fortunate to be debt - free, the critical tweets on Twitter were still painful reminders of his past choices.
There were too many painful reminders on this Sunday for Jets fans.
What should be a joyous day turns into painful reminder that not everything goes the way you plan.
Miltner's often painful reminders of costly and disastrous past mistakes — the billion - dollar Los Angeles School District iPad fiasco, among others — certainly don't make it easy to remain optimistic about the trajectory of education's incorporation of «tech» subjects now.
These types of experiences are painful reminders of how far, as a united community, we have come and how frightening and uncomfortable this can be for a lot of people who feel by extending human rights to the disenfranchised, they are somehow losing rights or under attack.
«It was a painful reminder, and I didn't need it.
While one employee may find work provides a temporary escape from grief, another employee may find work is a painful reminder of the loss.
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.
Russians love Tolstoy's novels, and they are used to learning their theology and politics from literature rather than from theologians and politicians, but Tolstoy's turn to pacifism, peasant culture, and a simple, rural life appears to them less as a witness to Christian distinctiveness than as a painful reminder of the failures of literary reformers.
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.
From Jon and Kate Gosselin's divorce, to South Carolina Governor Mark Sanford's infidelity, to the embarrassing exploits of Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berluscon, the headlines have been a painful reminder of how troubled modern marriages can be.
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.
And, if you're a breastfeeding mother, you will have the painful reminder that your body is still working for the baby: leaking breasts, let - down discomfort, breast engorgement (potentially leading to mastitis, or infection, if not managed properly).
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.
Seeing the extra weight in the mirror serves as a painful reminder of what your body went through and the baby that you are no longer carrying.
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.
Vote Democratic because George Bush's failed economic policies have been a painful reminder that a «depression hurts.»
«Your continuous reaching out is a painful reminder of how cruel you really were then and now,» Cattrall wrote on Instagram.
It's also a painful reminder of the risks the brave men and women of our police departments face each and every day — particularly as Officer Familia was protecting her community as it celebrated the Fourth of July and the values we hold dear.
With patches of white and brown covering the spot — it is a painful reminder of that fateful September evening in -LSB-...]
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.
They served as a painful reminder that I wasn't at my skinniest.
OK... If you woke up and looked in the mirror this morning to see a painful reminder of all your 2016 overindulgences firmly attached to your waistline, the last thing you might be feeling right now is «happy.»
Pockmarks are painful reminders of the skin problems you used to battle in the past.
Women's Affairs Mother's Day is a beautiful celebration, but for some, it can also be a painful reminder.
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.
Here, the Men's Lifestyle Guide lists 10 questions to avoid on a first date You swiped right... that selfie will always serve as a painful reminder of how terrible your dating skills are.
It's classic sitcom shtick, and The Dilemma is a painful reminder that director Ron Howard was trained in television.
A painful reminder of what fantasy cinema was like before the Lord of the Rings trilogy re-wrote the rules.
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).
Nevertheless, there is some enjoyment to be had here, particularly from Terrence Howard, though his amusing supporting role is also a painful reminder that this is an actor who should be a star and deserves better material than this.
Greek helmer Yorgos Lanthimos» purest and painful reminder that love reigns is measuring off against Justin Kurzel's...
Each time the couple touch is another painful reminder to Lila that she is single.
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