Sentences with phrase «painful reminders of»

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.

Driven by painful reminders of opportunity left unseized, he roams, tirelessly seeking the next in a growing collection of Crimson Confessions.

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.

In our universal bereavement, like grieving parents, we have put away all painful reminders of our loss.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

For others, this will serve as a painful reminder of the great acting talent of James Gandolfini we lost earlier this year.

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.

A «stone mattress» in the titular tale of this short story collection serves as a painful reminder of past events.

Perhaps it was because the baby was failing to thrive, or perhaps it was to protect Placidia, and to ease the painful reminder of the violence she endured.

I'm calling them a repercussion, a necessary and painful reminder of the way that mass shootings have become part of the American consciousness.

Tax season can be a painful reminder of how well, or poorly, you tracked and budgeted your lifestyle the previous year.

The hammering was a painful reminder of the risks that go along with small caps.

For others, these things are a painful reminder of what they have lost and are quickly hidden away.

The look of pure sadness on one dog's face after realizing she's been left at the shelter is a painful reminder of the loss thousands of abandoned dogs face every year.

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.

Kitty Block, HSI's vice president, said from Seoul: «Humane Society International has now rescued and rehomed 186 dogs from South Korea's brutal dog meat trade, and every time we see these lucky guys happy in their new families, it's a painful reminder of those still suffering on these farms.

But I will also say that this game will be a painful reminder of how uncomfortable the Vita is to the human hand, so get a comfort grip before you get this game.

That's the world imagined by this demo on Microsoft's HoloLens headset, which maps graphics to your surroundings, and it's both exciting for future possibilities and a painful reminder of just how limited our Pokémon hunting experience still really is.

What we have instead is a painful reminder of how the frailties of mortals can outweigh the claims of myth.

It's also a painful reminder of how far modern consoles have come, as the SNES Classic has annoyingly short controller cables and some puzzling design quirks.

Across the country, this was a painful reminder of how careful our members have to be in their day - to - day lives.

I wondered if that's why my ex walked away from all those cherished possessions — they're a painful reminder of all that we've lost.

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With talk of a regulatory rollback in the air, the anniversary offers a timely reminder that exuberance and loose standards can cause painful damage.

The division is made more painful against the backdrop of Jesus» prayer for oneness and Paul's reminder that whether we live or die, together we belong to the Lord.

Starting with painful defeat and then some reminders of some of our greatest recent players, goals, wins, and the achievement of building the new stadium.

Particularly when people are adopting due to infertility, reminders of what have been missed or lost can be so painful that it is just easier to choose another parenting book or website.

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.»

In a statement, New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo, a Democrat, also addressed Wednesday's mass shooting, saying that the fatal incident is «another painful and infuriating reminder of the inaction in Washington,» when it comes to gun safety laws.

«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.

«The Bronx Is Burning,» while factual, is a slur and a reminder of a painful past.

While up in Oslo earlier this week I got a strong reminder of what real winter is about, I once was used to arctic weather, but -19 raw Oslo air, honestly, it was really painful and not very surprisingly the streets were almost empty of people.

While the solo work of Gilmour and Waters improves with each release and suggests that each is getting more comfortable working on his own and figuring out how to work without the other, their solo albums are also a painful and tantalizing reminder of just how good the music they made together once was.

Without giving it away, Killmonger's final line of dialogue is an indelible reminder that the best pop myths come straight out of the most painful realities.

While it's a tad painful to hear Imagineers talking so seriously about a concept as flimsy as Pixie Hollow, the interviews are a nice reminder of the attention Disney Parks is willing to pay to even the most trivial details.

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).

Maybe it's too painful for you to see reminders of your pet.

As the Champions of Hyrule whisper amongst themselves in what is chronologically the first memory, seeing Link is a constant and painful reminder that Zelda is not able to awaken the power to seal the darkness within herself, despite the extreme efforts she has expended trying to do so.

Yet for those of us who played these three games to death, this collection will serve as a painful reminder that we haven't seen new WipEout material on a home console in a long time.

It's a painful 30 - minute, 60 fps reminder of the legal realities of shifting ownership in entertainment industries, as well as a tantalizing idea of what we could still hold out some hope for.