Sentences with phrase «was a painful reminder»

The whole experience was a painful reminder of how victims of war can be found on both sides of the gun.

Sometimes, the act of giving birth can be a painful reminder of traumatic events that have occurred earlier in their lives leaving them feeling powerless and victimized.

Closed manufacturing plants, empty storefronts and lost jobs are painful reminders that, though our economy is rebounding, Upstate New York is lagging behind.

«As you are well aware, the recent felony convictions of both Sheldon Silver and Dean Skelos are painful reminders that the New York State Legislature can not maintain the business - as - usual approach that has failed taxpayers and eroded the public trust,» Kolb said in the letter.

Thankfully, the wilful premeditated murder of serving police officers is still a rarity but this week was a painful reminder of the risks they take every day of their working lives.

The holidays can be a painful reminder of loved ones who've passed on, especially when it's the first holiday season you have to endure without them.

And when Valentine's Day is focused on romantic dinners for two or coupled walks on the beach, it can be a painful reminder of what we lack.

It's classic sitcom shtick, and The Dilemma is a painful reminder that director Ron Howard was trained in television.

When terminally ill army buddy Henry (David Strathairn) arrives on Jake's doorstep, the hermit is forced to bear the responsibility of raising his friend's half - Vietnamese daughter Lenny (Zoe Weizenbaum), whose presence is a painful reminder of the past.

Each time the couple touch is another painful reminder to Lila that she is single.

Tax season can be a painful reminder of how well, or poorly, you tracked and budgeted your lifestyle the previous year.

The hammering was a painful reminder of the risks that go along with small caps.

For others, these things are a painful reminder of what they have lost and are quickly hidden away.

The look of pure sadness on one dog's face after realizing she's been left at the shelter is a painful reminder of the loss thousands of abandoned dogs face every year.

Kitty Block, HSI's vice president, said from Seoul: «Humane Society International has now rescued and rehomed 186 dogs from South Korea's brutal dog meat trade, and every time we see these lucky guys happy in their new families, it's a painful reminder of those still suffering on these farms.

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.

In many respects it's a true achievement for the medium, but in others it's a painful reminder as to why this era has been kept so isolated from interactive entertainment.

But the game is a painful reminder that I really suck at Mario games lol

What we have instead is a painful reminder of how the frailties of mortals can outweigh the claims of myth.

Although the portraits are a painful reminder for the people who once lived there, they actually piece together the happy life that existed in the apartment building during its heyday.

Across the country, this was a painful reminder of how careful our members have to be in their day - to - day lives.

I wondered if that's why my ex walked away from all those cherished possessions — they're a painful reminder of all that we've lost.

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The paper also got a very painful reminder of how dangerous it can be to accept what politicians say at face value, when its reporting on the lead - up to the Iraq War turned out to be a tissue of lies fed to one of its reporters.

At best it has been regarded as a reluctant concession to human sin and frailty, a painful reminder of our failure to fulfill the exalted standards which God holds for marriage.

The division is made more painful against the backdrop of Jesus» prayer for oneness and Paul's reminder that whether we live or die, together we belong to the Lord.

There were too many painful reminders on this Sunday for Jets fans.

What should be a joyous day turns into painful reminder that not everything goes the way you plan.

Particularly when people are adopting due to infertility, reminders of what have been missed or lost can be so painful that it is just easier to choose another parenting book or website.

Led by Reps. Jerry Nadler, Joe Crowley and Dan Donovan, New York members of Congress wrote to Secretary of State Rex Tillerson, urging him to use his influence to ensure that Jakiw Palij — a convicted Nazi guard — is deported, so New Yorkers and Americans are not forced to live with «a painful reminder for Americans who fought against the Nazis or lost loved ones in the Holocaust.»

In a statement, New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo, a Democrat, also addressed Wednesday's mass shooting, saying that the fatal incident is «another painful and infuriating reminder of the inaction in Washington,» when it comes to gun safety laws.

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But as its patent expires on November 30 and its first generic competitor takes the stage, Lipitor is also a painful reminder of the challenge that such «patent cliffs» pose for the big drug companies, including Lipitor's developer Pfizer, based in New York.

For Remo, a scientist at the Harvard - Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, Bolden's statement serves as a painful reminder that we, as a country and a world community, have done little to prepare humankind to fend off asteroids bound for Earth, even though it's within our means to do so.

While up in Oslo earlier this week I got a strong reminder of what real winter is about, I once was used to arctic weather, but -19 raw Oslo air, honestly, it was really painful and not very surprisingly the streets were almost empty of people.

While the solo work of Gilmour and Waters improves with each release and suggests that each is getting more comfortable working on his own and figuring out how to work without the other, their solo albums are also a painful and tantalizing reminder of just how good the music they made together once was.

Without giving it away, Killmonger's final line of dialogue is an indelible reminder that the best pop myths come straight out of the most painful realities.

While it's a tad painful to hear Imagineers talking so seriously about a concept as flimsy as Pixie Hollow, the interviews are a nice reminder of the attention Disney Parks is willing to pay to even the most trivial details.

Despite Spielberg's best attempts to make mawkish Lincoln's words and actions, they resonate still as stirring, painful reminders that maybe you only get one Lincoln, and now he's gone and we have to figure all this shit out for ourselves.

Mudbound is a play for respectability by Netflix, a $ 12.5 million Sundance acquisition that received an Oscar - qualifying run in Los Angeles and New York City and has earned some notice from critical groups for its stark cinematography and relentlessly dour reminder that war damages people, poverty is painful, and racism is bad.

Javert stares out at Notre Dame from the roof of the Conciergerie; the proletarian rebels crawl about the towering, moldering Elephant of the Bastille (a painful reminder, no doubt, to Baz Luhrmann that he's not the only director who can kill off his pretty heroines with tuberculosis).

Greek helmer Yorgos Lanthimos» purest and painful reminder that love reigns is measuring off against Justin Kurzel's...

Greek helmer Yorgos Lanthimos» purest and painful reminder that love reigns is measuring off against Justin Kurzel's paranoia bliss and Andrew Haigh's in it for the long term portrait received the most nominations for the upcoming 2015 British Independent Film Awards.

Last week, the United States got a painful reminder that making student achievement a higher priority couldn't be more urgent when a major global study ranked American kids just 17th in reading, 21st in science, and 26th in math — behind countries such as Estonia, Poland and Vietnam.

Perhaps it was because the baby was failing to thrive, or perhaps it was to protect Placidia, and to ease the painful reminder of the violence she endured.

I'm calling them a repercussion, a necessary and painful reminder of the way that mass shootings have become part of the American consciousness.

None of these transactions are the norm, but they serve as painful reminders of what happens when everyone — buyers, sellers, agents, lawyers — get caught up in a frenzied market.

There are a hundred daily routines she won't be part of anymore and each one, right now, is an unexpectedly painful reminder of her absence.

Maybe it's too painful for you to see reminders of your pet.

As the Champions of Hyrule whisper amongst themselves in what is chronologically the first memory, seeing Link is a constant and painful reminder that Zelda is not able to awaken the power to seal the darkness within herself, despite the extreme efforts she has expended trying to do so.

It's a painful 30 - minute, 60 fps reminder of the legal realities of shifting ownership in entertainment industries, as well as a tantalizing idea of what we could still hold out some hope for.