reopen old wounds

"And you're afraid of reopening old wounds by looking at the data again?"

For this reason they will go on reminding themselves and others even at the price of reopening old wounds.

Far from comforting each other, they only seemed to reopen old wounds. "

"So just because the justice system fouls up yet again, you're going to run around reopening old wounds."

"Every time we think the truth is finally coming to light," she wrote, "a new twist reopens old wounds."

Moreover, many feel a growing anger at a process that reopened old wounds but gave them little support afterward.

Most whites say they believe that a murder trial today would needlessly reopen old wounds.

The Vatican petition, he said, "would reopen old wounds that we thought were closed forever."

Officials have said that a long inquiry would only stir public acrimony and reopen old wounds.

I can see this in my own case, where losing a job or a home has in certain instances reopened old wounds.

"I don't want to reopen old wounds," she said, staring down at her dirty blue dress.

"I don't want to reopen old wounds," he said.

On the other hand, Montaigne's return to York would reopen old wounds.

Moreover, the drought has reopened old wounds in a state where water has historically been the source of power and money.

Does reading about (or viewing pictures of) that September day reopen old wounds, or help us come to terms with our loss?

After a decade of vicious civil conflict, there was little enthusiasm in Algeria for reopening old wounds.

Eventually they extended their methods to communities where exhumations of mass graves had also reopened old wounds.

It just doesn't want to reopen old wounds."

All those little gifts reopening old wounds.

The invasion of Panama reopened old wounds.

"It would renew the Shoreham crisis, reopen old wounds and prolong the agony."

That reopened old wounds and memories dating to the neighborhood's wars over court-ordered school integration more than a decade ago.

An official from the provincial film board said, Long Road to Heaven could "reopen old wounds".

They meet with the head monk, but do not talk with Francisco, not wishing to reopen old wounds.

Its point is not to settle scores or reopen old wounds, but rather to explore, after a long period of repression, the possibility of grief.