Mme Parfaire said she would handle the floating shreds of his past, which Grippes assumed she meant was Mme.
In the film, based on the book by Andre Dubus III, Behrani clings to the shreds of his past glory.
Whatever answer I give, I feel that I am either misrepresenting facts -- clinging on to shreds of my past -- or selling myself short, as if being "just" a mother is not enough.
Occasionally, despite my best efforts, a shred of his inextinguishable past turns up to tease me: a page of one of his typed letters on flimsy airmail paper, for instance, advising me of some crazy scheme he wants me to "bring to the Attention of your Advisors with a View to Early Investment".
We are using autopilot systems (among them current forms of economics, valuation and accounting) that are full of assumptions way past their shred-by dates.
The tumultuous events of the past month have shredded confidence, destroyed trust and left markets in a petrified state.
Now even that shred of regret is a thing of the past.
Sometimes we have to shred all the pain and hurt of the past to get to the depth of who we really are.
There is not a shred of doubt that Intel Corp. intc will blow past even the most optimistic earnings estimates for the third quarter.
It's always easy to shred anything and everything you've done once you move past it, which we have.
