Sentences with phrase «wrenching reality»

Both of us had made child - rearing the central focus of our lives and now, between bites of Cobb salad, we had to acknowledge the wrenching reality: If you do it well enough, parenthood is a tragic occupation.

The rise to fame and popularity is as exciting as the gut - wrenching reality that had driven them to breaking out.

Not exact matches

When reality throws a wrench in your progress, choose to see that obstacle as real.

Donald Trump, who hosted the business competition reality show for seven seasons since it debuted in 2004, threw a wrench in the works when he announced his presidential run in June 2015.

The second question is that of systematic theology proper: What systematic model, informed by the criteria determined for fundamental theological discourse, will allow a specific historical community of faith to articulate its particular vision of reality in a manner that makes it available for the wider community without being wrenched from its own historical experience?

It took only six holes for the Augusta National course to wrench him back to even par, and reality.

There were certain gut - wrenching moments as well, as the film didn't shy away from the reality that not all children have the care that they should.

It just provides a taste of the gut - wrenching decisions Mr. Zapruder has to make while grieving for his beloved President; and the shock of Oswald's brother as reality hits; the jaw - dropping delusions of Oswald's mother; the absolute frustration of the CIA and FBI agents knowing their historic failures will be their legacy; and the disparate emotions that enter the operating room with Kennedy and Oswald.

Whether it's a long tracking shot of a steaming dog - diarrhea trail soundtracked by Debussy's «Clair de Lune», or a surreal, gut - wrenching hallucination suffered by the lonely old widow of the final story (Ellen Burstyn)-- in which her multiple past selves visit her as a reminder of her failures and missed opportunities — these expressionistic touches, rather than dreamlike whimsy, hit deeper disappointments and realities.

While Tom grapples with the reality of reporting the incident, or making the woman he loves happy, he ends up choosing the former, kicking into motion some heart wrenching consequences.

This brave blend of satire, farce, and heart - wrenching realism charts an immigrant's journey in which a mixed - race Russian Jew, desperate for escape, decamps to America but finds an even more absurd reality than the one she left behind.

The reality of having one's ancestors wrenched away from their homelands, arrive in chains and enslaved for centuries has created a pit in my stomach that won't go away.

You're only able to carry so much loot, though, and thus eventually must come face to face with the harsh reality of having to give up some loot, a heart wrenching task when you've sunk countless into the game and have an armory of Legendary items, each seemingly more awesome than the last but not quite as awesome as the new helmet you just found.

This book encompasses a lovely, wrenching mix of phenomenal prose, intriguing science fiction premises, and a basis in reality that gets to your core.

An even more heart - wrenching is that this game forces the player to confront the realities of war and the toll it took on innocents in the form of picking to either decimate a large portion of enemies with white phosphorous or make your way through the area by means of seemingly irksome stealth action.

In his gut - wrenching serialization of the human form and its sensations, he shows himself to be the unflinching witness of the hysterical reality of bodies and the primal fear of those who inhabit them.