Sentences with phrase «with coming to terms with our past»

Not exact matches

The story of a reserved English butler slowly coming to terms with his dark past, The Remains of the Day by Kazuo Ishiguro clearly touched a nerve with the Amazon founder.

The article for me is even proof that more and more Christians are able to come to terms with their problems and face them rather than hide them and be ashamed as many would have done in the past.

Within the past year, I've come to terms with an overwhelming and yet awe - inspiring truth: Parenthood is stewardship.

For a culture deeply imbued with Freudian assumptions, it should be no surprise that the healing necessary for eternal redemption is understood as a coming to terms with one's past.

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.

The great problems of history with which we must come to terms tend to appear to us not as members of a chain organically tied to the past and growing into the future, but as cataclysmic interruptions of the normalcy of peace and harmony, occasioned by evil men and evil institutions.

But this is to fail to come to terms with the work itself, which must itself determine how its own past is to be interpreted.

Loney's friends worked — with his tender assistance — to come to terms with their painful pasts, a task which often involved asking for forgiveness from their victim's families.

He spoke movingly of how he had first had to come to terms with these questions when reporting on sexual abuse of minors in a Protestant missionary agency, and how the past year's reporting on the Catholic situation had posed for him painful ethical dilemmas with respect to issues of confidentiality, perspective, and the dangers of playing to stereotypes.

John B. Cobb, Jr., formulates the issue thus: «Every occasion must come to terms with the whole of its past, but it is causally effected by nothing contemporary with it.

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.

Perhaps we can come to terms with the exploitations of the past, but should we complacently stand aside as the sacred mountain of the Navajos is strip - mined and the ecology of their region destroyed in order to produce more electricity to meet the insatiable demands of us Californians?

These Responsa, never regarded as inspired or authoritative in any official sense, have nevertheless been an influential factor in enabling the Jew to come to terms with a world of change and at the same time to maintain a feeling of continuity with the past of his people.

Thank you for your sweet words here Ksenia < 3 I've struggled with it so in the past, it seems that coming to terms and embracing it has only came through experiencing it over and over - patience is so a virtue, isn't it?

The German international has failed to agree terms on a contract extension over the past year, and with his current deal set to expire come the end of the campaign, he looks ever likely to be leaving the club.

Wenger is past his sell by date and the sooner the Board come to terms with this the better.

(As anyone who has been visiting MomsTEAM's Concussion Safety Center for the past twelve years knows, science and technology have yet to come up with a way to prevent concussions; the most we can realistically hope to do at this point is a better job of identifying concussions when they occur and managing them in such a way as to keep the recovery time to a minimum and to keep kids from returning before their brains have fully healed so as to minimize the risk of serious, long - term effects, or even, in rare cases, death).

Therefore, understanding these people, it should come as no surprise they want the Western population to think in anti-human terms with breastfeeding a thing of the past.

As Bosnia and Herzegovina continues to come to terms with its violent past, many still wonder if the country will ultimately disintegrate.

Barely three months ago, the battle for tomorrow was being played out in disagreements between liberal and progressive groups aiming to come to terms with a bloody imperial 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.

Blair informed Hattersley that he was worried about «hurting Gordon» to which Hattersley replied that he should tell Gordon Brown that there had been,»... a lot of people in the past who had wanted to be leader of the Labour Party and have come to terms with the fact that they weren't going to be» and that Brown would have to be part of a line that «goes back a very long way».

I've covered quite a few books on my blog over the past year or two, all of them being related to ethical fashion on varying levels, however, I've never read or reviewed a fictional book until I discovered A Harvest of Thorns and realised that fiction could be another way to help people understand and come to terms with fast - fashion.

To be honest I've felt somewhat lost the past 2 years when it comes to my career but I've come to terms with being «ok» with my uncertainties by simply knowing I will find my way eventually (oh, and everything happens for a reason, right?To be honest I've felt somewhat lost the past 2 years when it comes to my career but I've come to terms with being «ok» with my uncertainties by simply knowing I will find my way eventually (oh, and everything happens for a reason, right?to my career but I've come to terms with being «ok» with my uncertainties by simply knowing I will find my way eventually (oh, and everything happens for a reason, right?to terms with being «ok» with my uncertainties by simply knowing I will find my way eventually (oh, and everything happens for a reason, right?).

This will help you to come to terms with the fact that even if it didn't work in the past, you have great qualities that will be appreciated by someone else.

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.

No matter your past experiences, you need to come to terms with the fact that mature dating involves some personal baggage from the past — and sometimes, that exact baggage may be quite heavy!

Online dating is a perfect way to get back on the dating scene and if you have been unlucky in the past or perhaps just come out of a long term relationship then chatting and connecting with likeminded singles in Darlington is a great way to put a smile back on your face.

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.

Yet, «Kung Fu Panda 2» is at its finest when focusing on the internal churn of the characters, watching Po and even Tigress (who's warming up to her rotund partner) come to terms with their fractured past, helping them achieve the special yin - yang balance of inner peace needed to defeat Shen.

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

A man haunted by the past and mistakes made, along with a man struggling to come to terms with modern warfare.

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.

With death early in its plot, the film focuses, intriguingly, on how Linda comes to terms with that what has happened, how both individuals and groups process past violence, loss, and complicity in tWith death early in its plot, the film focuses, intriguingly, on how Linda comes to terms with that what has happened, how both individuals and groups process past violence, loss, and complicity in twith that what has happened, how both individuals and groups process past violence, loss, and complicity in them.

As the English patient is slowly and painfully compelled to remember his tragic past in pre-war North Africa, the nurse comes to terms with herself and her luck.

One of her allies in the fight is a young Austrian journalist (Daniel Brühl) who struggles to come to terms with his own attitudes about the past.

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.

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

Traveling to accept an honorary degree, Professor Isak Borg — masterfully played by veteran director Victor Sjöström — is forced to face his past, come to terms with his faults, and make peace with the inevitability of his approaching death.

Flashbacks showing Enslin's past with his wife (Mary McCormack) and now - deceased daughter (Jasmine Jessica Anthony) become the real demons, and that portrayal of a man who has yet to come to terms with his own grief makes up for the crazy, perplexing inverted labyrinth of a finale.

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.

«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.»

What follows is a journey into Jessie's mind as she comes to terms with an unspeakable trauma from her past while trying to figure a way out of a rather unique situation.

A man and woman fall in love while coming to terms with their own tragic pasts and the true nature of the afterlife.»

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.

One of the few negative reviews, written by Ed Power for www.independent.ie, complains of the film's relative lack of fisticuffs: «Black Panther spirals into a stodgy tale of internecine feuding, in which T'Challa is required to come to terms with the sins of past generations,» Powers writes.

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.

Both films are the feature directorial debuts of talented women filmmakers and both center on complicated women trying to come to terms with tragedies in their pasts.

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.