Sentences with phrase «plagued by a sense»

I am plagued by a sense that my greatest creativity, my greatest ideas were in those drafts.

Like Rip Van Winkle, Maier emerged from these long spells in bed plagued by a sense of time warp.

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It is not an unrelieved sense of tragedy: Israel records with humor and glee in I 5 - 6 the humiliation, in the presence of the ark, of Dagon, god of Philistia, and the humiliation by a plague of the Philistines themselves, regarded as a result of having the ark in their midst.

In Chapter 2 we noted that many alcoholics are plagued by low self - esteem and a sense of isolation (and differentness), as well as guilt and anxiety.

The first simple passover was no doubt in a real sense celebrated in the episode of the last plague, which was considered by the Israelite participants to be decisive to their escape.

Oromiya, which surrounds the capital Addis Ababa, was plagued by violence for over two years, largely fueled by a sense of political and economic marginalisation among its young population.

By the end of the first week, it felt like my body was in balance: My digestion was humming along smoothly, the fatigue that normally plagues my life was ancient history, I was sleeping well, and I had the energy and motivation to work out, which only bolstered this heightened sense of well - being.

What once seemed sure to be a noble failure plagued by production woes, World War Z turns out to be one of the more captivating summer entertainments this year, a sprawling film that maintains an alluring sense of intimacy.

If Besson's script is plagued by amateurish philosophizing and bad science, his visuals for Lucy are masterful, overwhelming the senses with one audacious image after another.

It Follows stars Maika Monroe (The Guest) as Jay, a young teenager who, after a strange sexual encounter, finds herself plagued by nightmarish visions and a sense that something is... following her.

The Program (2015): A by - the - book story about Lance Armstrong's doping scandal that suffers from the problem that plagues many biopics: namely, it operates with the understanding that we already know the real story (or most of it), so it doesn't work that hard to make the characters seem real or to make the emotional beats land with any sense.

It's ultimately not surprising to learn that The Marrying Man was plagued by behind - the - scenes problems and mishaps, as the movie's erratic sense of pacing is compounded by both a seriously overlong running time (115 minutes!)

It makes sense that in a film plagued by unbelievable characters parading around pretending to be deep that the character who calls for those exact trails works a little better than the rest.

The stealth genre has long been plagued by the enveloping darkness of abject failure, an impending sense of fear that everything you have worked so hard to accomplish is but hair's breadth away from collapsing...

There is the elegiac sense of being the last man standing, quite literally; the sense of loss and loneliness left by the 1980s plague that devastated his community.

It's been nearly 10 years since Plows, Plagues and Petroleum was written, and between further research by Bill, colleagues and various other groups who got interested, I think the book is a very coherent, thorough, makes - sense history of The Holocene.

In that sense you're getting what you pay for: a decent camera capable of occasional greatness in daylight, plagued by more - than - occasional shortcomings in low light.

When buyers feel strong - armed into something they don't fully believe in, they end up plagued by the nagging sense they didn't make the right choice.