Sentences with phrase «painful stories when»

Then, there are the more painful stories when it is difficult to keep from wincing.

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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.

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

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

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.

But it is a different story when it escalates and turns into a painful problem.

Check out these stories about the amazing times when parents» solidarity had no borders, and remind yourself that you're not alone in navigating awkward and painful parenting moments.

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

The film had plenty of potential to being great, but instead it suffers from long, tired scenes of painful dialogue and the film's story just lingers and goes no where and when there's something that actually is interesting that happens, it's too little too late.

But they also radiate warmth and humor, even when they're used to tell stories that are often very painful.

-- but sometimes when a story is personal and painful, we can forgive certain filmmaking crudities and narrative lapses.

It is crucial to give students the opportunity to think quietly, write in a journal, and process together the emotional and painful stories they learn about when studying genocide.

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.

In a 2009 review, BookPage praised the way each story is «suffused with warmth and empathy, focusing on those singular moments in life, painful or ecstatic and sometimes both, when everything changes.»

While it's always painful, getting rejected on a short story you spent months on, then dusting yourself off and submitting again, helps inoculate you against falling completely apart when your novel gets rejected.

And then I remembered, I had an agent, a great agent, I wrote great books (so all the rejecting editors told me) and yes, you are right, self pub has given my stories a voice and an ear and the chance to be read, when they otherwise would have still been gathering dust on my hard drive, yet, on the other hand this is hard, REALLY HARD, it is SO hard to find your way to a readership as a SP, with limited funds (dwindling)... and the glimmer of trad pub — with their power to splash your name around established circles of readers, and their ability to secure a great number of reviews where, as a self pub, doors have been slammed in my face — becomes temptingly shiny again, (it's like childbirth, you forget all the painful stuff with time)... and it all gets very tempting... almost tempting enough to consider sacrificing one work JUST one artistic premise for the trade off of visibility... and then perhaps, just perhaps THEN, my SP efforts will finally sprout wings... but then I hear you and other say, it wasn't worth it, you'd never do it again, and I sigh... And then I wake up the next morning and think of packing it all in, and going to work for Walmart and steady shitty pay... lol And then along comes this blog post.

Thorson says the process was «painful,» but it's also when Celeste's story began to take shape.

For me, it's definitely the latter, and that's because I like when games tell stories, when my soldiers» actions weave lovely — or painful — narratives that I can then recount and laugh, or cry.

When you understand someone's story, you can often understand their reactions, so tuning in and listening can bring closeness, rather than both of you going off into the separate corners of painful disconnection.