Sentences with phrase «to come to terms with one's past»

Still, his performance captures the inner turmoil of a man coming to terms with the past and also the future.

This story at first glance is about loss, but as you read deeper it is also about the narrator coming to terms with her past.

This means coming to terms with past policies but also current policies to ensure the mistakes of the past are never repeated and Indigenous peoples have equal life chances.

I think coming to terms with your past is one of the most difficult parts of our journey.

The moving, urgent films by these three artists mark a new approach in coming to terms with the past.

«We're thrilled to be working with her and the team at Pretty Pictures on this wonderfully life affirming, funny and heartfelt film about coming to terms with your past to face your future.»

Sterritt **** A young drug dealer tries to come to terms with his past on the day before he leaves for a seven - year prison term.

After the war, although he never consciously embraced the German process of Vergangenheitsbewältigung (the process of coming to terms with the past), he once remarked: «It's just there.

And Wilson quite effectively suggests the way in which the last of the Narnia stories — with its reunion of parents and children in Aslan's world — shows Lewis coming to terms with his past.

Purgatory is the time for coming to terms with the past, more specifically, all the woes, deficiencies, and sins that we could not muster sufficient sensitivity to in this earthy life.

It's about Seth coming to terms with his past and making sure he's the one in charge of his future.

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Yet he knows he must somehow come to terms with his past if he hopes to defeat Lord Shen in the future.

Watching these characters come to terms with their past brings great hope for the future, and offers sweet solace for anyone trying to heal the wounded child within.

The Wave is a powerful and at times horrifying film that uses the natural advantage of its setting to make comment on the preconceptions and prejudices that must exist in a country still coming to terms with its past.

Susanna White, whose «Mr. Harvey Lights a Candle» focuses on a teacher's coming to term with the past during a trip to Salisbury cathedral, and «Nancy McFee Returns,» about a woman who teaches some brats some lessons when her husband is away at war, may appear to have little to do with a cerebral, yet physically demanding movie like «Our Kind of Traitor.»

America specifically is in a constant struggle to come to terms with its past atrocities, and racism looms large even as the more privileged would like to wave it off as a disease that's long been cured.

Sam Elliott is the latest actor to get a late - career role - of - a-lifetime; he plays an ailing movie star coming to terms with his past and mortality in this comedy - drama.

Another remarks that «almost all a person's problems are created by not coming to terms with the past».

It is about Dinnie, who comes to terms with her past and establishes a secure identity for the future.

But just like our neighbours to the South, we struggle in Canada with coming to terms with our past, as well as our present.

Young Indigenous people variously speak of being alienated from both black and white communities, of difficulty in coming to terms with the past, of living somewhere «between two worlds», and being unable to find a point of balance (pp65 - 80).

The final film shown in competition with a superstar cast of Juliette Binoche, Kristen Stewart, and Chloe Moretz; three women representing three different generations in a story about coming to terms with the past, age, and the consequences of time.

A major concern of Cook's is the lack of communication between an aging father and his adult son — due in part to the father's inability to come to terms with his past.

Supporters of the Child Victims Act say many victims are unable to come to terms with their past and muster the courage to seek help until long after that age.

When you've come to terms with the past and are ready to embrace life after divorce with exuberance and optimism, it's time to get back into dating.

When you've come to terms with the past and are ready to embrace life after divorce with exuberance and optimism, it's time to get dating.

When you've come to terms with the past and are ready to embrace life after divorce with exuberance and optimism, it's time to get dating again.

Now forty years old, with a wife and four children who need him, he risks everything — his marriage, his family, his health — to go back into the fighting cage and come to terms with his past.

While the President (Morgan Freeman) tries to maintain order in the land, a team of experts led by a famed astronaut (Robert Duvall) attempts to stop the comet and an ambitious journalist (Tea Leoni) resolves to come to terms with her past.

The two of them go on a day - long journey that causes Elle to come to terms with her past and Sage to confront her future.

Po and his friends fight to stop a peacock villain from conquering China with a deadly new weapon, but first the Dragon Warrior must come to terms with his past.

Her story is told in an extended flashback, bookended by the elderly Elle - Marja's reluctant return to Lapland to attend her sister's funeral, an event which forces her to come to terms with her past.

«The Bourne Ultimatum» is ultimately more of the same, with Matt Damon «s amnesiac secret agent still struggling to come to terms with his past (and make things right in his present).

Another character, Vic, is central to the book: he appears as an awkward adolescent fixated on unattainable older girls, as a young man coping with the legacy of his father's alcoholism and abandonment, and as a middle - aged man unable to come to terms with his past.

This is not just a story of one man trying to come to terms with his past... - JLPen77 Do you think Daniel's life would have ultimately been better or worse if he'd listened to Myrna's advice that he should go home?

Even if you think that you've accepted and come to terms with the past, old wounds are opened, things are faced and feelings long buried come to the surface.

I enjoyed hearing about her life and especially seeing her come to terms with past memories.

However, in this book the wounds are deeper as Sybella must come to terms with her past and how her secrets tie and untie her to a knight who is the bane of her existence and her hope for the future.

It's about love, music and coming to terms with the past.»

Even if you think that you've accepted and come to terms with the past, old wounds are opened,... - jillf Did you like the «gritty» style?

In order to come to terms with that past, Fanny must put her trust and love in the hands of Colonel Sir Derek Sheldon, a man with secrets of his own.

This book definitely reflects all of that, his honesty shows through, his love for his son and wife, his faith and the coming to terms with his past.

More importantly, it is the story of how I came to terms with my past, learned to live happily in the present, and how I built the bridge that would get me over it...

In order to discover what happened, Natalie, Cole, Madison, Dylan, Laura, and Drew must come to terms with their pasts, and in doing so, they learn a great deal about themselves and each other.

She's certain she's come to terms with her past — until the first body is discovered in a snowy field.

Here she whiles away the hours, coming to terms with her past, present, and future.