Cliches are often useful tidbits of wisdom imparted too often to have any remaining emotional impact: "live every day as though it is your last" being a prime example.
After all, the relapse had hardly been fun, and once my cravings were satisfied, I had no remaining emotional attachment to the junkie lifestyle.
With his comments Mr. Bush was doing something few major politicians of either party have done in a generation: rearguing a conflict that ended more than three decades ago but has remained an emotional touch point.
Laughton, who was for years wheelchair-bound with multiple sclerosis and who died in 2013, at the age of eighty-four, remannemotionaltional bulwark for Pacino until the end.
Mr. Mladic's crimes remained an emotional issue for the Dutch, whose peacekeepers were overrun at Srebrenica, allowing Mr. Mladic's soldiers to mow down men and boys, their hands tied behind their backs.
Jacob Bernstein said at the screening that the topic remained too emotional for either his brother or stepfather to go public.
The unequal concentration of land ownership remained an emotional subject and eventually became a cornerstone of liberal radicalism.
These diaspora communities, who remain in emotional and practical dialogue with their country of origin, are best represented by Iran and Algeria.
It is clear that wild bison, which once grazed freely by the millions before they were reduced to a handful in the 1800s, remain an emotional symbol.
Even as the events of the story spiral out of control, with teen-age pregnancies, unexpected encounters, funerals, and murders, the characters remain rich emotional studies, whose interior lives Michaud (who works at this magazine) explores with finesse and sympathy.
