Sentence examples for personal reckoning from inspiring English sources

His first was as a teenager, a matter of regret and personal reckoning.

Nearly two centuries later, Death and the Maiden stands as his act of personal reckoning: a prodigious testament to the agony of life's transience.

That search led him to pursue bitterns, nightjars and other birds: the 20 most elusive in North America, by his personal reckoning.

"To women who grew up in the 50s and had an uneasy relationship to sexual revolution in the 60s," says feminist author Phyllis Chesler, "Erica brought them to a personal reckoning with identity, including their sexuality.

Today, he has broken his silence with "Last Testament," a late-in-life attempt at personal reckoning that amounts, instead, to a reiteration of the ethical detachment that undercut him from the start.

Rather it was the little-known "Emperor and Galilean" of 1873, a deeply personal reckoning with powerlessness that foreshadowed his famous domestic plays, but whose daunting structure — nine hours long, dozens of characters — led Ibsen to classify it as closet drama, meant to be read in private.

Beyond tribute or sociological excavation, however, "Booker's Place" also represents a personal reckoning: The film's director, Raymond De Felitta ("City Island"; " 'Tis Autumn: The Search for Jackie Paris"), is the son of Frank De Felitta, the producer and director of that mostly forgotten 1966 documentary, "Mississippi: A Self Portrait".

An intensively researched docudrama, teeming with dates, names and events, it is also a personal reckoning with a familiar narrative of idealism and disappointment: Mr. Wakamatsu and his regular screenwriter in the 1960s, Masao Adachi, were active members of the radical left.