After sitting through half an hour of uninspiring political theatre, my father, deciding to play to the fear that, feeling unacknowledged, the young men might leave and do something rash, instructed his cohort to make a show of walking out in exasperation.
In the case of this character I've created, it does have something to do with the feeling of being unacknowledged or ignored.
"So much of our work is with vulnerable, marginalised children," she says, "and so much of their experience is about feeling isolated, unloved, unacknowledged.
Instead we often focus on forging ahead, ignoring the regrets we may feel ("No regrets!" being a familiar phrase and ideal), pretending them "away," making do and moving on, even while we may be tripping up over unacknowledged regrets and all the feelings piled on top of or buried under them.
"There's been a feeling of insecurity and an unacknowledged guilt about an often shameful history, and that's bred fear and aggression.
He prizes "dignity" above all else and allows his feelings for housekeeper Miss Kenton to remain unacknowledged.
Dr. Granek's study reveals that most oncologists suffer from unacknowledged grief, and they experience their sadness all mixed up with feelings of guilt, self-doubt, failure and powerlessness.
(Sound familiar?) It's this evil — historical, unacknowledged, and pervasive — that is truly disgusting; the Losers Club defeats it by feeling disgusted, rather than afraid.
The gesture, like so many the Princess made, was frank, open, and full of feeling: the characteristics that made her beloved, albeit with an often unacknowledged assist from her physical beauty, which met the dictionary definition of English Rose.
A parade of journalists and Westboro members sought meetings with her. Louis Theroux, a British filmmaker who made two documentaries about Westboro, said, "My feeling was that there was a pecking order and there was an unacknowledged hierarchy, and at the top of it was Shirley's family".
