Sentence examples for an unhappy memory from inspiring English sources

The shadow possibly symbolized an unhappy memory.

Brent Scowcroft, the President's national-security adviser, has an unhappy memory of that first meeting.

"Then I have them focus on an unhappy memory and recite the same nursery rhyme.

The Babadook is towering and dark; he looms taller as you look at him, like an unhappy memory that swells in the traumatized mind.

Here the whole tragedy is an unhappy memory for Friar Laurence, who stalks in and out of the action as if ruefully observing the trouble he caused.

But occasionally his voice will crack at an unhappy memory, and he'll admit he's a long way from the self-assured performer of Queen.

One of his signature gestures is to turn his head away and then turn back, his eyes filled with tears at an unhappy childhood memory.

Other footnotes are offbeat, like Ellison's unhappy memory of having to rename his boat because journalists kept pointing out that the Shinto deity Izanami, spelled backward, is "I'm a Nazi".

That suggests a man anxious to deflect unhappy memories – a tactic Labour should be doing its damnedest to thwart.

Not only did he refocus attention on his wife's most hazardous issue, Iraq, just as it was receding as the nation's Topic A, but he also revived unhappy memories of the truth-dodging nadirs of the Clinton White House.

Their unhappy memories became a guide for avoiding bad behavior rather than an excuse for it.