Sentences with phrase «uncomfortable reminders of»

Which sometimes leaves us the next morning with uncomfortable reminders of our excesses.

At least then Anne wouldn't be an uncomfortable reminder of the black woman who was Barnum's prisoner with a job.

In the post, reporter Rob Cameron observed that the images «are an uncomfortable reminder of a different event and a different era.

Much like the two - faced Janus of Greek myth, the Sympathizer is forever looking both forward and back — forward to a time when he and the people he reports to can make a comeback in Vietnam, and back to his life in the United States, one of the many «boat people» the country is forced to accommodate, all an uncomfortable reminder of an inglorious outcome: «The majority of Americans regarded us with ambivalence if not outright distaste, we being living reminders of their stinging defeat.

Wall text lets you know that this refers to Bill Cosby's Fat Albert character — and thus addresses the rise and fall of his career — but also acknowledges that the piece stands as an uncomfortable reminder of how we are «confronted almost daily» with news of African Americans being killed by white police officers who typically go unpunished.

Not exact matches

For Chateaubriand, confession was both a reminder of uncomfortable truths and the remedy we are yearning for.

It's a reminder: here is who I said I wanted to be, and here is what I said I would do (even when uncomfortable) to become that kind of person.

It is also an uncomfortable reminder that not all the millions of wine being shipped around the world, or between producers in their home countries, is always exactly what it says on the label.

The episode is a reminder of the ongoing political feud between Cuomo and Miner, and of the fact that the administration now finds itself in the uncomfortable position of trying to support development projects overseen by companies whose executives have been charged with defrauding the state.

It all feels achingly real, and for those of us of the white persuasion, achingly shameful and uncomfortable, a reminder that the Civil War didn't end anything no matter what we may believe.

But I will also say that this game will be a painful reminder of how uncomfortable the Vita is to the human hand, so get a comfort grip before you get this game.