Sentences with phrase «through painful conversations»

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Through 10 conversations, we learn the painful background story of the unnamed narrator, an author heading to Greece to teach a summer writing course.

There, through conversations with aging relatives, he imaginatively recreates his childhood, his Dutch - Ceylonese family history and the painful marriage of his parents — all set against the drug - like heat of the luxurious countryside.

So what I'm going to be doing over the next several weeks, next several months, is having a conversation, a wide - ranging conversation with scientists, engineers and elected officials to find out what can — what more can we do to make short - term progress in reducing carbons, and then working through an education process that I think is necessary, a discussion, the conversation across the country about, you know, what realistically can we do long term to make sure that this is not something we're passing on to future generations that's going to be very expensive and very painful to deal with.

For anything other than that, you have to sit through the painful video conversation process.