Sentences with phrase «painful stories of»

The Blu - ray combo pack includes a «Making of» featurette that goes behind the scenes of filming in two languages with a local cast, who share their painful stories of their personal conflict during the war.

«In the last two months, dozens of courageous individuals have come forward to share painful stories of harassment and abuse they suffered at the hands of those in positions of power.

While we all know painful stories of friends and family who were victims of injustice, spiritual abuse, and unhealthy environments, it is possible to thrive as we use our gifts to serve Jesus and bless others.

I also heard painful stories of loss and displacement.

These meditations with the Word lead to an invitation to each retreatant to share the painful story of her abortion (s) in the context of her life.

The movie develops into a painful story of one generation inflicting its selfish compromises on the next.

The first of his collaborations with director Denis Villeneuve, a foreign artist also trying to make a great impression with his first studio project, «Prisoners» had Jóhannsson apply his stark, solemn inclinations to the painful story of a father (Hugh Jackman) who is incredibly desperate to find his missing daughter.

This layer of deception only complicates further their respective resentment of the father, and as the action widens to include the protagonist's widowed mother (Michelle Pfeiffer), the movie develops into a painful story of one generation inflicting its selfish compromises on the next.

Sing, Unburied, Sing: by Jesmyn Ward Conversation StartersIn «Sing, Unburied, Sing», readers are introduced to an archetypal road novel that transcends the familiar bounds of the genre, exploring a heartfelt and at times painful story of family bonds.

Grammy award winning hip - hop artist Lecrae Moore tells the painful story of his youth, his search for faith, and his successful rise to fame with unflinching honesty and directness.

From the Twin Cities area comes a painful story of the damage and disruption in exurbs that grew exponentially in the past decade.

Not exact matches

Recently on the Unreasonable Institute blog, Chen told the story of how her startup underwent a painful near - death experience.

No one kept those kinds of records which is why stories such as Perpetua's became so important as symbols of the persecution as a whole - serving much the same role as Anne Frank does today for the holocaust... a symbol of a sad and painful time.

Understandably, many of our most compelling stories feature the painful fate of individuals so caught between the countering claims of these imperatives that, unlike the utopian Falstaff, they are incapable of an unambiguous choice.

After hearing countless stories of how pornography has affected the lives of others, I've come to realize that the consequences of porn use are akin to flying bits of shrapnel: painful, unpredictable, and in some ways, fatal to our lives.

When finally hearing Julie's painful story after five long years, I would expect to see statements of empathy and regret from the members of the discernment team who claim to have intended sincere pastoral care.

[The entire comment section is worth a read as we heard from hundreds of LGBT folks and their parents, who shared both painful and hopeful stories.]

Reminiscences of other painful stories are also recalled in the names «Absalom» and «Stephen.»

I completely understand the thought of not wanting to tell the painful story.

Exile, confusion and a gradual, painful articulation of their own stories in the face of accepted religious truth were the results of their struggle with fundamentalism.

For although Our Faith Story does deal with some issues of «painful situations and responses in us - sense of guilt, failure, etc.», yet it seeks to see them against the backdrop of cultural pressures and circumstances.

Unfortunately you have chosen to view God from a very painful perspective and I really don't blame you for thinking that way and it is very brave that you express your perspective so openly... But you have chopped pieces of the story and put them together way out of context.

In an interview in the Women «s Review of Books (March 1988), Morrison talks about the necessity of black people sharing the story of slavery rather than «rushing away... because it is painful to dwell there.»

I sighed when I read this, as stories like these are still painful for me to hear (even though I know plenty of them).

Though many of the stories are painful and sad, the book is filled with hope simply by knowing that you are not alone in your struggles.

But perhaps our real affection for that verse is a more complex response to the whole story of Samuel and Eli, maybe even relief at the poignant rendering of our own secret dread: that although the word of the Lord is clear enough in fact, Eli found it painful or difficult to keep listening.

If the Bible were a collection of stories to keep people in check, why did people through the centuries give up their lives in very painful torturous deaths all because they refused to deny Christ?

For the religious mind capable of going deeply into something beyond the sense perception, these symbols - the cross and the lotus - must be telling painful stories as well edifying ones, crying out in despair as well as in hope.

When I write stories of painful struggle or of raucous laughter, God permits a woman to minister.

Our painful stories are interwoven with his will and we are broken and spilt for the good of others.

This quiet story of an elderly preacher's coming to terms with his life and the lives of his fathers - from the Civil War to the twentieth century - is told with such intimacy that it can be painful in its beauty.

For instance, I was recently in a doctor's office getting ready for the painful removal of a surgical dressing, when he told me a story that involved a «big black guy» coming to his door at 6:30 at night.

First, I have heard of stories of women that are not comfortable nursing because they were sexually abused and find it too emotionally painful to have their breasts in constant use.

The first session involved reading an article and stories about painful feelings of adolescents and how caring responses from teachers can help them grow and succeed.

Instead, I (mostly) heard horror stories of traumatic births, shared in painful detail, all meant to try to persuade me into having a home birth instead of a delivering in a hospital with doctors, nurses, and access to pain medication.

While every athlete's story is painful, the knowledge and understanding that I have been able to impart to parents has been invaluable for both of us.

How many times had my eyes strayed back to my computer screen in the middle of one of her stories about how terribly painful the invisible scratch on her pinky toe was or how pretty the light looked as it danced through the dust motes in front of the window?

I heard stories of how painful the experience is and that there are incidences where some women die while on labor.

Sarah Rodriguez, author of From Depths We Rise: A Journey of Beauty from Ashes, shares her story of overcoming painful circumstances.

With my first baby, I had to stop breastfeeding when a painful lump appeared that immediately made me think of my mother's story.

Shared in the book with the readers are teen stories, feelings, and parenting techniques that help grieving teens not only survive grief by thrive after a painful loss of a family member or friend.

Across the internet, women used the hashtag #MeToo to tell the painful and upsetting stories of how we've been treated for too long.

For those who haven't heard it, the song, based upon Aesop's fable, «The Farmer and the Viper», tells the story of a woman who lets a snake into their home, only to have it turn around and bite her, filling her with a fatal poison that causes a slow painful death.

As always, the real heroes of this story are the brave women who shared their experiences, using their own painful memories to create a better and safer future for others.»

Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand said in a statement «it's extraordinary that Harriet Tubman, a civil rights icon and New Yorker, will get her rightful place on the $ 20 bill so that future generations of Americans will learn her story and the integral role she played during a painful time in our nation's history»

Two Western New Yorkers who were victims of sexual abuse as minors are in Albany Wednesday to share their painful stories while advocates push to change New York State's statues of limitations in child sex abuse cases.

Erie County lawmakers again heard about the devastating toll of the opioid epidemic as nearly a dozen parents and siblings Tuesday shared their painful stories about their deceased sons and brothers.

Coley was fascinated by a smattering of curious cancer stories referenced in the medical literature of the era: Patients riddled with inoperable tumors suddenly found themselves cancer - free after contracting erysipelas, another potentially fatal ailment at the time, caused by Streptococcus bacteria and marked by fever and hardened, painful rashes.

This is sad, horrifying and often gruesome, but it is a story worth hearing as Aronson gives us a sense of the confusing, painful and Herculean effort involved in the most basic identification.

In it, she describes her own painful journey living with the disease, and shares the stories and insights of doctors, writers and fellow celebrities.