traumas
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If Raúl is working through his own traumas by creating Elsa, it’s enticing to speculate on Almodóvar’s reasons for making Raúl his onscreen surrogate.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 13, 2026
He knew the details of his family traumas would shatter his venerable image; any lapse of discretion triggered his anxiety.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 13, 2026
"I think that the traumas that we suffer as a child not fitting into your skin, into your identity, I think that then can play out later in life," she said.
From BBC ● Oct. 29, 2026
Others are putting their money on Antiguan-American author Jamaica Kincaid, whose work deals with exile, identity and the traumas inherited from colonialism, or on Chinese writer Can Xue.
From Barron's ● Oct. 1, 2026
But he was still recovering from the trauma of the war as well as some serious traumas that preceded his military experience.
From "Just Mercy" by Bryan Stevenson
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