"My work is rooted in memory — both my own and a more distant, perhaps collective, one," Maliheh Afnan once said.
His commitment is sustained by a visceral understanding of the bleak daily existence of the people that Isles serves, knowledge that is rooted in memories of his childhood in Akron, Ohio, growing up in a working poor family with a father who disappeared and a mother who took ill.
Otranto's blood and darkness is rooted in memories of a 600-year-old massacre.
For me, the love is rooted in memories of my own gymnastics career, and in my awe at the strength, tenacity and fearlessness of little girls, whether or not they grow up to be Olympic champions.
It's called complicated grief, and the abnormal traits (such as I've described) may be rooted in a paradox of memory.
To love more deeply, risk more greatly, to never leave anything unsaid, be unabashedly me, be alive in every moment, breathe in every memory, be rooted in gratitude, and most of all, breathe bravely believing in life's great possibilities.
The holiday has never, in fact, been rooted in living memory.
Her descriptions of married life are rooted in childhood memories of the Belle Epoque.
Not only that, Walker's business plan was rooted in happier memories from his childhood with Darcy.
However, though McDiarmid has been faithful to O'Hagan's book, he can't quite capture the thing that matters most: the idea that Anderton's actions are rooted in old memories and explicable only in terms of personal loss.
