In calm, contemplative images and cleverly constructed domestic scenes, Lin lays bare the wounds of warped relationships and reveals the painful traces of broken dreams.

NEWYORKER: The Moon Also Rises

Globalizing local brands is full of minefields and broken dreams.

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Entrepreneurial visionary, benefactor and savior of broken dreams?

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Lack of communication can lead to mistrust, which leads to further animosity, which can potentially lead to projects being taken over by non-creative accountants or crumbling into a pile of broken dreams and tear-stained IOUs.

FORBES: Accelerating Film: Mixing Business and Art

The latest chapter incorporates moments from the earlier films (the failed marriages, the broken dreams) as the subjects settle into middle age, and it finds them all at a relatively peaceful stage in their lives.

NEWYORKER: 49 Up

Instead, the duel between Berlusconi and Bersani ended up a somewhat embarrassing battle of silly promises and, ultimately, broken dreams for Italians who will find that however difficult they thought things were, they are bound to get worse.

CNN: Italy tumbles into 'chaotic uncertainty'

Dreams are made and dreams are broken.

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In our last piece about this device, we implored to Moto that "if this isn't real, can whatever it is you're working on right this second and do precisely this instead, " and as we sit here with broken hearts and shattered dreams, the advice most definitely stands.

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This is what happens when a city is cut off from the rest of the country by desert, developed by the Mob, built on broken get-rich-quick dreams and where visitors outnumber locals nearly 20 to one.

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