Sentences with phrase «potent reminder»

This looks like it's going to be fun and emotional and a very potent reminder of the love families have.

India, Ulster, Bosnia and Sudan serve as potent reminders of just how volatile a mixture moral commitments and political differences can be.

The cinematic nuggets sprinkled throughout (like the flagship clock image's nod to Harold Lloyd's Safety Last) are catnip for like - minded film lovers, and in case there's ever a shred of doubt about Scorsese's pristine craftsmanship, those ever - present turning gears prove potent reminders.

Joe Carnahan's The Grey falls in line with an intimate, frequently grueling genre of films that serve as potent reminders of why humankind builds cities.

Most importantly, it serves as a potent reminder of black people's great resource, our Vibranium — black film, black music, black art — black culture.

Is this a potent reminder that our call is to be more sensitive to those who feel unloved, marginalized, shunned from our society?

But if it is a supplementary image to the clinical image, then it can be a potent reminder that the pastor goes into the highways, byways, new housing developments, and slums to find and assist with needs, and does not merely call when needs are already known or wait until people call upon him.

Mel's embrace of Tracy at the end of the film serves as a potent reminder that we should never let go of kids, including those who most want to distance themselves from us.

I know that all of you can relate to that on some level, which is a potent reminder of some of my business here.

With Javier Hernandez, Shinji Kagawa and James Wilson all scoring on Saturday, it's a potent reminder that Van Gaal has fashioned a rod for his own back in letting so many attacking players leave since his arrival in 2014.

Clinton and Sen. Bernie Sanders both announced this week they'd raised more than $ 25 million in their last three - month stretch, a potent reminder that many of the Democratic establishment's donors and top players have already committed to a declared candidate.

The 2013 Nobel Prizes in chemistry, physics and physiology or medicine are all potent reminders that science, though studded with the occasional brilliant flash of insight, almost always takes years of persistent toil to move forward.

Regardless of these specifics, this experiment is a potent reminder that our lives are a work in progress.

While the results still need to be replicated, they're a potent reminder that coral reefs will be struggling with the 1 - 2 punch of hotter temperatures and a more acidic ocean by century's end, if not sooner.

The theft of some 2 million passwords to popular Web services like Google, Yahoo, Twitter and Facebook provides a potent reminder of the simple yet critical steps users can take to protect themselves and their data, according to Indiana University cybersecurity expert Fred H. Cate.

They're little spacers in the density of life, acting as potent reminders to be present.

On a more personal note, these moonbeams could also bring a potent reminder that honesty is still the best policy.

A mere day removed from the birthday of the late Trayvon Martin, this is a potent reminder of what is at stake, not just in the film, but in our real world.

The Tree of Forgiveness is autumnal John Prine, but it's also a potent reminder that his remarkable skills as a songwriter and his rough - hewn excellence as a singer haven't failed him yet.

Luckily, the stars are up to the challenge, and their renditions, complete with occasional misplaced warbles and swallowed notes, are a potent reminder of the film's stage roots.

Full of evocative detours, memorable bit characters, and potent reminders of the West's legacy of theft and exploitation, the film builds to an epilogue that more than earned its place on our list of the year's best scenes.

It was also a potent reminder that they have a long, long way to go.

After years of coasting in rom - coms, 2011 has marked, with «The Lincoln Lawyer» and «Bernie,» the start of the rehabilitation of Matthew McConaughey, and it's more or less come to fruition here: he's absolutely terrific, serving up a potent reminder of why everyone was so excited about him way back in the mid 1990s.

Her defiance is a potent reminder: Oppression exists.

Early response to Joe from festivals have gotten rave reviews, Nathan Rabin of The Dissolve called the film «a potent reminder of what a great actor Cage can be.»

Though the museum collection is more of an irony than a solution to Reading's problems, it is nevertheless a potent reminder of the incongruity of a district that has benefited hugely from federal and state tax dollars crying fiscal distress - and then suing - and suing again.

That separate mark for mechanics serves as a potent reminder of her weak spots.

«Learning how the FUEL program empowers families who may have otherwise found the pathway to college education almost impossible,» says LeMoine, «serves as a potent reminder of just how powerful our work is.»

The guy is a saint and a potent reminder how sometimes old - car people are the nicest people, like family, only nicer and even nuttier.

It's an eye - opening look at how easily even a talented team can go astray, and a potent reminder that good video games are very, very hard to make.

Warlords Of Draenor is a potent reminder that Blizzard Entertainment is capable of more than resting on its irrefutable reputation.

Says Brown, «The untimely death of Mike Kelley is a potent reminder of how important every minute can be, particularly for those exploring and challenging the very mesh of society.

If you aren't, the presentation of the series at the Art Academy of Cincinnati is a potent reminder of how images, in this case taken from private and public American institutional archives, can augment reality when taken out of the original intended context.

Hoyland's new exhibition is a potent reminder that abstract art need not be obscurely inaccessible, a hothouse plant that can only thrive in the artificial atmosphere of the modern art market.

A half century and more has passed since the Swinging»60s, Carnaby Street, teddy boys, even the Stones, all potent reminders of a British cultural liberation that was, admittedly, often perceived negatively — particularly in the stellar example of Allen Jones.

The cross might then symbolize the removal of dirt (cleanliness is next to godliness), yet another potent reminder of Gober's Catholic upbringing, as well as invoking orifices or wounds.

As part of Mnuchin's broad - minded exhibition, his work serves as a potent reminder that Minimalist expansion into the real space of the gallery was only a first step.

Books with rare, irreplaceable ephemera, such as Russian Samizdat Art, edited by Charles Doria, similarly serve as a potent reminder of the threats books have always posed to institutional power and enforced ignorance.

Fusing archival material, readings from classical sources, and newly shot footage, the work explicitly highlights the greed, horror and cruelty of the whaling industry, juxtaposed with shots of African migrants crossing the ocean in a journey fraught with danger in hopes of «better life» and thus delivering a timely and potent reminder of the current issues around global migration, the refugee crisis, slavery, alongside ecological concerns.

The table is not just a feast for the eyes, but also a trip down memory lane and a potent reminder of consumerism's influence on children.

Coming alongside the news that a record 23 nations from Southeast Asia and beyond would be joining biennial naval exercises in the eastern Indian Ocean, it was a potent reminder of just how eager the nations surrounding the South China Sea are to embrace powerful allies to fend off a rising China.

Layla, these posts are such a potent reminder of how love unites us all, bridges all distances — that this author's daughter IS her daughter, even though she lives thousands of miles away.