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  • Demos they may be but these Hazlewood rarities are rounded, rustic country songs: lustrous and lustful, quirkily and dryly humorous, yet poignant stories from the other side of love.
  • A truly poignant object is the patinated bronze sheet with names of Olympic champions inscribed on it from the first century B.C. to A.D. 385, after which the Olympics were outlawed. Transformational Objects
  • I only played three carefully considered notes with intuitive regard to choice of rhythm, tempo, dynamics - using a poignant interval, the minor sixth resolving to the perfect fifth.
  • Bacon aside, the condensed force and poignant brevity of whose aphoristic wisdom has no parallel in English, there is no other prosaist who possesses anything like Milton's command over the resources of our language. Milton
  • The truly poignant moments were those that followed. Times, Sunday Times
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  • Poignantly stated and played, the two guitarists spread out and cover the space.
  • The film is not attempting poignant comments on reality - it aims at grace and good humour.
  • The local Foróige Youth Club is looking for adults to volunteer their services once a week to help in the operation of the club.
  • The infant Isabella from her coign to do obeisance toward the duffgerent, as first futherer with drawn brand. Finnegans Wake
  • Her tragic death, poignantly captured on grainy mobile telephone footage, has flashed around the world. Times, Sunday Times
  • Jewish life is poignantly described in Wiesel's journal, "The Jews of Silence".
  • Why couldn't ESMD have simply directed that things be done in metric in the first place - in compliance with NASA's own regulations (note the OIG report from 2001 years before Constellation was even started). NASA Watch: June 2009 Archives
  • _ -- Most children, if not all, even when they have very early formed R correctly (involuntarily), introduce other sounds in place of it in speaking -- e. g., they say _moigjen_ for "morgen," _matta_ for "Martha," _annold_ for "Arnold," _jeiben_ for "reiben," _amum_ for The Mind of the Child, Part II The Development of the Intellect, International Education Series Edited By William T. Harris, Volume IX.
  • Where are you going, Rex?" said Anna one gray morning when her father had set off in his carriage to the sessions, Mrs. Gascoigne with him, and she had observed that her brother had on his antigropelos, the utmost approach he possessed to a hunting equipment. Daniel Deronda
  • Sellist filmi on keeruline hinnata, sest tegu on lõputööga ning tõenäoliselt seda tehes mõeldigi eelkõige vaid hindamiskomisjoni peale. Rändaja (2010)
  • There are fathers and mothers who urge their daughters to make haste to occupy every coigne of vantage, and gradually advance into the heart of the enemy's country. Girls and Women
  • It is especially poignant that he died on the day before the wedding.
  • The poignant note lay in a bed of roses on an ivory white casket that featured two joker playing cards. The Sun
  • There seems something so poignant about it all. Times, Sunday Times
  • The power of the book comes, though, from the poignant descriptions of the well-meaning but disconnected members and friends of the family.
  • We got it going, and after a while out came this rather wonderful, plaintive and poignant sound. Times, Sunday Times
  • Tehke via Craxi, nimetage Raphael Piazza Navonal ka Craxiks, siis on kõigile näha, mis laadi poliitika teie eesmärk on. Tatsutahime Diary Entry
  • That his new novel uses photography as a postscript for a moment in history which will forever be indelibly inscribed upon our souls is a gesture both probing and poignant.
  • Gascoigne and his colleagues would have faced a fierce backlash had Lazio lost to bitter local rivals Roma in the Olympic Stadium.
  • England soccer star Paul Gascoigne was signed up by a top Italian club.
  • Like the Poco Allegretto of the composer's third symphony, the wistful melody of this movement gives the score poignancy that stamps it as one of the great creations of the romantic era.
  • Like Whitman's poetry, Elvrum's lyrics are often as elementary as a child's jejune rambling, and yet, in their simplicity, they're sturdy, sophisticated, and poignantly inquisitive.
  • It is especially poignant that he died on the day before his wedding.
  • As the death toll grew, there were poignant scenes at Wootton Bassett, Wiltshire as five coffins draped with the union flag arrived at RAF Lyneham and were met by sombre crowds on the town's streets.
  • The floor was strewn with roses, a detail that seems painfully poignant now. Times, Sunday Times
  • The beau monde even dictates style to the overfed Prince of Wales, ridiculous in his pantaloons, and to soignée duchesses, who trade in their silks and satins for cotton, the ‘poor stuff’ of the French Revolution.
  • And how poignant to reflect on Bell enduring a complex and messy time at the hotel buffet these past weeks. Times, Sunday Times
  • Archbishop of Toulouse! answer all the three, with the clearest instantaneous concord; and rush off to propose him to the King; 'in such haste,' says Besenval, 'that M. de Lamoignon had to borrow a simarre,' seemingly some kind of cloth apparatus necessary for that. The French Revolution
  • Most rewarding are seemingly unrelated stories, like Toby's impending fatherhood, that end up having a poignant payoff within the cliffhanger ending of the season.
  • For example, Jonathan Saunders gave us a convincingly grown-up collection of soigné clothes, using an almost entirely black-and-white palette.
  • Forbearing to engage in the open field, where the gain would lie wholly with the enemy, he lay stoutly embattled on ground where the citizens must reap advantage; since, as he doggedly persisted, to march out meant to be surrounded on every side; whereas to stand at bay where every defile gave a coign of vantage, would give him mastery complete. 46 Agesilaus
  • Gascoigne and his colleagues would have faced a fierce backlash had Lazio lost to bitter local rivals Roma in the Olympic Stadium.
  • We grasp the poignant loneliness of the elevator attendant, sigh when Rhoda is hurt and squirm at the office busybody's interference.
  • Donaldson's lucid chording inspires a sweetly poignant reading of ‘Lonely Woman’, while the opening of ‘Peace’ features a meltingly gorgeous statement on alto, accompanied only by Dave Green's ever thoughtful bass.
  • … So: dusk in the frozen lake of a city park, skating behind the puffy red earmuffs and the fluttering yellow ringlets of a strange shikse teaches me the meaning of the word longing… Forgive me luxuriating, but these are probably the most poignant hours of my life I'm talking about. Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph
  • Darker and more harrowing is Saved starring Scottish veterans Irene McCallum and Edith McArthur in a poignant tale of a soft-hearted young nurse on a dementia ward.
  • Although not as strong this season as he was last, his mix of military and matelot, flouncy frills and soigné slimness will be popular in the Hamptons.
  • The paradox is poignant and the lives of the two drivers remain intertwined. Times, Sunday Times
  • Her face was a poignant reminder of the passing of time.
  • So - I'll just say you don't have to murder anyone to read Cara's wonderful series - she handles the murders very well on her own - and solves them with utmost soigne. ON THE BUBBLE WITH CARA BLACK
  • This time we are no longer brought into touch with the classics or with the scholastic influences, for the play in question is a translation from the Italian, being in fact Ariosto's _Suppositi_, englished by George Gascoigne [109]. John Lyly
  • Today, the Residency, a well-preserved and poignant memory of the Raj, is worth visiting.
  • Lanegan's personal narrative, the euphoric highs and ravaged lows of the junkie, the fretful pining of the love incompetent and the poetic musings of the maverick outsider, are poignantly realised.
  • The writing is her usual blend of charming whimsy, heartbreaking poignancy and sometimes impenetrable surrealism.
  • Ensuite, je lui trempe les oreilles dans de l'eau et l'oblige a boire ... bien sur il bave et ne boit pas du tout alors j'humecte mes doigts et essaies d'enfoncer mon index entre c dents pour l'obliger a ouvrir la gueule. Pinku-tk Diary Entry
  • That was not the only poignant moment. Times, Sunday Times
  • Charles Hamilton Sorley, a Great War poet, once wrote an achingly poignant poem about the ‘millions of mouthless dead’ whose individual identity had been smothered by their ubiquity.
  • “” in the terrible scene where Strafford learns his doom, is only to be paralleled by the song of Mariana in “Measure for Measure,” wherein, likewise, is abduced in one thrilling poignant strain the quintessential part of the tense life of the whole play. Life of Robert Browning
  • To die is poignantly bitter, but the idea of having to die without having lived is unbearable. Erich Fromm 
  • There's something poignant about two guys who adore each other. Times, Sunday Times
  • Soon Mr Doig had diversified his business interest.
  • The dialogue is often poignant and moving, but the play is never allowed to slip into sentimentalism.
  • To me it was very poignant, almost apologetic. Times, Sunday Times
  • Frankly, some foul language can convey such complex, multivalent ideas in single syllables it feels a shame to try to elaborate and risk losing one iota of poignancy in a heated moment.
  • A poignant and often humorous memoir, full of energy and life. Times, Sunday Times
  • A poignant emotion clouded the joy of the disencumbered barricade. Les Miserables
  • A stupendous drawing of Venus rising by Rubens, 30 artworks by Walter Sickert and a poignant note written by Gandhi that was his tacit approval for Indian partition are among a dozen artworks and archives now in the possession of the nation because of the 101-year-old Acceptance in Lieu scheme. Acceptance in Lieu scheme brings a dozen new gifts to the nation
  • The score is cabaret style and combines the biting satire of Kurt Weill and the lush, poignant lyricism of Berg.
  • To me this children's-song and the fleeting and now plaintive echo of it, as "Voices from Within" -- "_Verso la sera, Di Primavera_" -- in the terrible scene where Strafford learns his doom, is only to be paralleled by the song of Mariana in "Measure for Measure," wherein, likewise, is abduced in one thrilling poignant strain the quintessential part of the tense life of the whole play. Life of Robert Browning
  • I had been looking for exactly that kind of book that would teach me the subtleties - what Julia used to call the 'soigne' - of French cooking. Hattiesburgamerican.com -
  • But Anna sang on, her voice rising like a shaft of pure melancholy in the cold air, now evoking Schubert's poignant hurdy-gurdy man. DREAMS OF INNOCENCE
  • So she calls another DJ, maybe somebody like Jon Voigt, who doesn't know about no-call lists, and Play Misty for Me does not jump-start Eastwood's directing career and none of us get to see those Sondra Locke movies. The movie plots that technology killed
  • There's a gratuitous poignancy provided by the fact that she's lame, which is no doubt to suggest that she won't be able to get another man - it fell a bit flat for me.
  • And as poignant as that analogy may be, it is not the crux of the matter.
  • I think you will all find it touching and poignant.
  • Mais aussi le probleme c que je craque sur le bruit des doigts qui glisse sur les cordes entre chaque accords forcements ... Pinku-tk Diary Entry
  • Published in China Review International in 2005, Sivin's essay focused on Needham's Science and Civilisation Volume 7, Part 2, "The Social Background, G.neral Conclusions and Reflections," edited by K.G. Robinson (Cambridge University Press, 2004), and used the occasion to give a poignant and nuanced overview of Needham's work as a whole. Why Didn't Science Rise in China?
  • But the film is strikingly bereft of tangible anger, its mood more poignant than incendiary.
  • What he gets is the poignant, emollient presence of Connelly who looks soulfully at him.
  • In a poignant postscript the actor died soon after the film's release. Times, Sunday Times
  • It's a humorous, serious, poignant, moving script, that genuinely explores the value and meaning of education.
  • Kummalisel kombel, kuigi olen linnalaps - Antsla, minu suvede kodu on ju ka lõpuks linn - väljendab seda, mis on minu jaoks laupäev, kõige paremini hoopis üks teine luuletaja ühelt teiselt maalt. Tatsutahime Diary Entry
  • Drainage Ditch: Georgetown" 1995 is a cross-section of that city's eccentric ecology, including a filthy-looking underwater habitat full of discarded tires and dog-faced fish, one with newborns—gross but poignant. An Illustrative Career Depicting Dystopias
  • Van Remsen, curator of birds at the Louisiana State University Museum of Natural Science, said that this new frogmouth genus serves as a poignant reminder that birds of the tropics, particularly from southeast Asia to Melanesia, have been paid scant attention by science. Archive 2007-04-01
  • The majority of this album is built up around similar ambiences as the trio elaborate poignant melodies and impressive arrangements, complete with guitars, strings and horns.
  • Written at the time of the Good Friday agreement, and especially poignant now, in the wake of the conclusion of the Bloody Sunday inquiry, "Sunrise" chews over the disputed names of the towns of Hannon's birth and youth, (London) derry and Enniskillen (aka Inis Ceathlain), before mounting to a moving crescendo: "Who cares where national borders lie?" he croons. An Evening of Political Song; The Duckworth Lewis Method; Seasick Steve
  • They're brutal stories, raw, poignant, desperate; we can feel the character's pain, see it in the shades and contours of Miller's skewed and bulbous art.
  • This was a moving, poignant ceremony, which gave solace to the parents and families.
  • Ken Loach's tale of two Irish brothers caught up in the IRA during the 1920s is hectoringly anti-English, but a powerful, poignant film none the less. Telegraph.co.uk: news, business, sport, the Daily Telegraph newspaper, Sunday Telegraph
  • This figure's weak chin, hunched shoulders and humble demeanor contribute to the poignancy and humanity of the busts.
  • His death at a time when more than half the country still remains to be tackled is especially poignant. Times, Sunday Times
  • Poignant and never sentimental, this elegant memoir recalls how a family adapted and reorganized itself over and over, enduring and succeeding to remain kindred in spite of living apart. Brother, I'm Dying: Summary and book reviews of Brother, I'm Dying by Edwidge Danticat.
  • The whole affair ranged from poignant to embarrassing. Times, Sunday Times
  • A Sotelte, callid a pellican on hire nest with briddis and an ymage of Seint Katerine with a whele in hire hande disputyng with the Hethen clerks, having this Reason in hir hande, _Madame la Roigne_; the Pellican answeryng _Cest enseigne_; the briddes answeryng _Est du roy pur tenir joie. A Chronicle of London from 1089 to 1483 Written in the Fifteenth Century, and for the First Time Printed from MSS. in the British Museum
  • Its childish simplicity, with cheap cha-cha beatbox rhythm and wobbly guitar, is both disarming and strangely poignant.
  • They paid their poignant tributes as two teenage brothers were comforting each other after being orphaned in the tragedy.
  • Their bipedality is dramatically confirmed by the poignantly evocative set of footprints discovered by Mary Leakey in fossilized volcanic ash. THE GREATEST SHOW ON EARTH
  • _Un remede d'Empereur (Neron) pour se debarrasser d'un rhume, -- et de commère pour attendre le meme but -- fut envelopper un oignon dans une feuille de chou et le faire cuire sous la cendre; puis l'ecrasser, le reduire en pulpe, le mettre dans une tasse de lait, ou une decoction chaude de redisse; se coucher; et se tenir chaudement, au besoin recidiver matin et soir_. Herbal Simples Approved for Modern Uses of Cure
  • In 1907, the once popular English writer Hall Caine described the book as the "poignant story of a great-hearted girl who kept her soul alive amidst all the mire that surrounded her poor body. Thomas Gladysz: A Lost Girl, a Fake Diary, and a Forgotten Author
  • They act as a poignant reminder of the tragic incident seven days ago.
  • And he afterwards quotes from Weitbrecht, [187] who had "observé dans un cas l'absence simultanée aux deux mains et aux deux pieds, de quelques doigts, de {180} quelques metacarpiens et metatarsiens, enfin de quelques os du carpe et du tarse. On the Genesis of Species
  • Two dummies, one dressed in a _simarre_ (gown) and the other in pontifical vestments, were burned on the Pont-Neuf: the soldiers, having been ordered to disperse the crowds, some persons were wounded and others killed; the mob had felt sure that they would not be fired upon, whatever disorder they showed; the wrath and indignation were great; there were threats of setting fire to the houses of MM. de Brienne and de Lamoignon; the quarters of the commandant of the watch were surrounded. A Popular History of France from the Earliest Times, Volume 6
  • Instead we are offered a panorama of uniquely flawed relationships each imbued with enough personality to be poignant and credible.
  • It was a touching and poignant afternoon as friends gathered to show their respects to a man who had remained loyal and ever faithful to the ideals of Comhaltas.
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  • It might also be said that with the structure he's erected, Lauren is something of an arriviste, but if that were uttered, it would require adding that many of the mansions introduced on those soigné avenues were constructed as well by new money confidently joining the old -- like the Rhinelander mansion that's been Lauren's home-base haberdashery for men and women these last few decades. David Finkle: Saturday Shoppers View Ralph Lauren's New Madison Avenue Mansion
  • Through a blanket of cold drizzle, there could be no sight more poignant than this abandoned village. Times, Sunday Times
  • The bar voted not to co-operate with any of the new judicial structure, and the members of a commission of jurists set up by Lamoignon a few months beforehand to advise him on criminal law reform all resigned.
  • A voice hails through a bullhorn: `Gascoign, I know you can hear me. A MEANS TO EVIL
  • He was brought up to believe in God and he has never felt with poignant sympathy enough the abysmal, immedicable woes of human-kind to have his faith disturbed. Christianity and Progress
  • Down in the River Findhorn valley, below the wind farm site, the wife of the head gamekeeper on the Coignafearn estate, welcomes the campaign of resistance.
  • It was incredibly moving, poignant and tragic. Times, Sunday Times
  • The pavid matron within the one vehicle (speeding to the Bank for her semestrial pittance) shrieked and trembled; the angry Dives hastening to his office (to add another thousand to his heap,) thrust his head over the blazoned panels, and displayed an eloquence of objurgation which his very Menials could not equal; the dauntless street urchins, as they gayly threaded the Labyrinth of Life, enjoyed the perplexities and quarrels of the scene, and exacerbated the already furious combatants by their poignant infantile satire. Burlesques
  • And yet this theme is underlaid with an emotion so vital, the emotion of a wild free life, and invested with a pathos so poignant of the quick passing of all good things, that no understanding heart can but be profoundly moved by that pathos and racily rejoiced at that wildness. Irish Plays and Playwrights
  • Having released Up And Down – a mix of jubilant swingers, poignant standards and intelligent inflecting of lyrics – she's moving steadily onward and upward as 2012 beckons. This week's new live music
  • This poignant love story is an absolute must-see. The Sun
  • It is poignant without being preachy, invested with subtleties when the penchant in the past would have been to go overboard.
  • Although many consider Crouching Tiger,Hidden Dragon to be foremost an excellent kung fu movie,the story depicts many forms of love(Sentencedict),the most memorable of which is the poignant romance between the two star-crossed lovers played by Chow Yun fat and Michelle Yeoh.
  • The tenet of universal foreordination takes from us this "coigne of vantage," and lands us in dynamic Pantheism. The Doctrines of Predestination, Reprobation, and Election
  • The bureaucratese is a bit more poignant than it might at first seem. 910 means the house was searched on 9/10. A Little Faith Can Heal A Heart That’s Been Betrayed | ATTACKERMAN
  • It is also a poignant and often funny drama based around two strong female characters, an unusual and refreshing choice for any genre.
  • The palpable anger and sadness at a village fair, usually an occasion for gaiety, was a poignant commentary on the hypocritical times we live in.
  • There is more poignant music in the Primavera, in the weary, indifferent countenances of his lean, neuropathic Madonnas -- Pater calls them "peevish" -- in his Venus of the Promenades of an Impressionist
  • Songs like ‘I Have Forgiven Jesus’ mine a deep vein of self-loathing that, poignant in his younger self, seems more troubling in a man in his forties.
  • Acclaimed Australian composer Moya Henderson reveals the process and the poignant story at the heart of her new radiophonic composition.
  • Darker and more harrowing is Saved starring Scottish veterans Irene McCallum and Edith McArthur in a poignant tale of a soft-hearted young nurse on a dementia ward.
  • Her subjects may revolve around love, loss, and guilt but poignancy rarely tips over into plangency.
  • Brienne and Lamoignon thought strong nerves would be enough to face out the clamour.
  • The king when he was lodged in his pauilion, sent to the man a Persian robe, a Cuppe of Golde, and a thousande Darices, (which was a coigne amonges the Persians, wherupon was the Image of Darius) willinge the messenger to saye vnto him, these wordes. The Palace of Pleasure, Volume 1
  • C n'est qu'une confusion perpetuelle de la gourmandise proprement dite avec la gloutonnerie et la voracité: d'où j'ai conclu que les lexicographes, quoique très-estimables d'ailleurs, ne sont pas de ces savants aimables qui embouchent avec grace une aile de perdrix au suprême pour l'arroser, le petit doigt en l'air, d'un verre de vin de Laffitte ou de clos Vougeout. Notes on 'Economies of Excess in Brillat-Savarin, Balzac, and Baudelaire'
  • The film certainly provides stimuli in its first 10 minutes we get our title gang of renegade heroes, evil Bolivian drug lords and their drug-mule children, a smoking school bus, girls in bikinis, enough high-caliber firepower to light up La Paz, an exploding helicopter, poignancy, death, a thirst for revenge. Only Action Clich
  • Cf. ‘no jutty, frieze, buttress, nor coign of vantage, but this bird hath made his pendent bed and procreant cradle.’ Quentin Durward
  • Owen also provides plenty of poignancy, and does so with admirable unobtrusiveness.
  • A well-written and insightful perspective of the utter chaos during the brief, but poignant, Flensburg Reich and the most bitter psychological struggle of how best to accept immanent defeat while ensuring survival. Germania-Brendan McNally « The Merry Genre Go Round Reviews
  • Yet, it was at the hill of Tara that St. Patrick lit the first Paschal fire in 433, which local high king Laoighire regarded as defiance against his pagan gods.
  • Poignant, moving and highly original, it taps into the heroic essence of Spencer's paintings while at the same time acknowledging a collective history which overrides imported values.
  • [ "Ie commencay par vn temoignage de grand amour en son endroit, et par des louanges que ie luy iettay comme vne amorce pour le prendre dans les filets de la verite. The Jesuits in North America in the Seventeenth Century
  • This tactile, sensual experience was made more poignant by the knowledge that these substances were pure, unalloyed, irreducible.
  • People that are good at it and adept at it can be very guttural and gutsy and dark and moving and poignant all at the same time.
  • The poignancy of the last words here remind us that whatever McKinley's politics might have been like (and I don't know anything about them), he was a person who, in extremis, cared about other people. Intertribal: And if my life is like the dust that hides the glow of a rose, what good am I
  • Joining the two other members of the camp staff, Jon Voigt is a particularly nasty delight as he struts around with a six-shooter and a greasy pompadour.
  • In follow-up audits of selected hospitals and clinics in the 10-state area, OIG found rates of unallowable claims ranging up to 100%.
  • Sometimes funny, sometimes poignant, this title reaches into the heart where light shines on the everyday foibles of living. MMD Newswire: Press Release News Wire
  • New York night life in all its true, hilarious, horrific, poignant and pinheaded glory.
  • His books are also meditations on sadness, a fact more poignant when he says that his books are always about him.
  • As on earlier discs, he enlivens Caribbean traditions with masterful jazz piano, by turns clamorous, poignant, playful and even swinging.
  • A poignant but erroneous cliche has made its way into journalism over the past few years.
  • Pregnancy has the further effect of burnishing Demi's biography: It makes her hardscrabble childhood seem more poignant.
  • Both a superbly subtle character study and a poignant hymn to Japan's lost past, Twilight Samurai is one of those rarest of cinematic creatures, a film that also qualifies as a genuine work of art.
  • So then the ending, that could’ve maybe… maybe redeemed some of the inaneness of the rest of the film by giving us a poignant ending or at least some sort of message, completely disappoints. Row Three » Review: Rambo - Where Cinema is more than just $100 Million productions
  • Like its multi-platinum predecessor, it's full of yearning tunes and poignant, confessional lyrics that foster an intense and highly personal sense of identification between the band and its fans.
  • Making the family history show came at a particularly poignant time for the actor. The Sun
  • The site includes a chapel and a museum containing a poignant collection of artifacts from the Italian front and some original trench fortifications. Smithsonian Mag
  • The book is 'wonderful', 'poignant', 'engaging', 'warm-hearted' and 'almost faultless'. Times, Sunday Times
  • Quand il est bien écumé, vous le salez légérement, et y mettez les racines convenables, comme navets, carottes, panais, oignons, cellery et poireaux, avec un clou de gerofle et une racine de persil. Savoring The Past
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  • The play follows the story of one man's fight to save his land, combining poignant drama with a sense of humour.
  • Edwards can warble and exercise his vibrato technique during poignant bits and can belt out the hallelujahs as forcefully as any four-hundred-pound gospel diva.
  • It is like a rare malt whisky: poignant, smoky and with a taste that makes you think of many great and important things. Times, Sunday Times
  • Poignant and performed without syrupy emotion, this is a lovely surprise.
  • Perhaps the most poignant thing about yesterday's ceremony was that the ability to fulfil that promise had been demonstrated even before the vow was taken.
  • Gascoigne's tale became, as we know too well, a tragedy and the same dark thread ran through the life of Hughie Gallacher, whose scoring feats helped Newcastle United to a championship, which is more than a host of subsequent superstars at St James 'Park could claim, as his son, also called Hughie, likes to point out. Telegraph.co.uk: news, business, sport, the Daily Telegraph newspaper, Sunday Telegraph
  • He sent me to the dictionary several times for carr, scroll pond, procrypsis, coign, spates and zugunruhe. Meeyauw
  • The ending offers a particularly haunting and poignant gesture - the reunion of a family torn apart on a purely phantasmic, spiritual cinematic plane.
  • Poignant as a visit to Dubrovnik may be, rich rewards await those who push into the interior -- beyond the comfort zone of Croatia's Dalmatian Coast.
  • Corporate attorney John Olson and Texas Securities Commissioner Denise Voigt Crawford are viewed as possible White House replacements.
  • Bedard confirmed Voight's story, but also mentioned the name Bobbi Joe Voight while speaking with the officer. TimesArgus.com: Sports
  • And, at the end, although the two hours have been absorbing, occasionally poignant and sometimes hilarious with flashes of Leigh's unique magic – one is left unsurprised and dry-eyed, unable to share in anyone's grief. Othello; Grief; St Matthew Passion – review
  • Eddie's failings are lent an almost intolerable poignancy by his former chauvinistic notions of patriotism.
  • This is a beautiful and poignant coming-of-age story, as well as a tense and honest portrait of the ups and downs of friendship and being an adolescent. The Sun
  • Sam Mendes's soigné productions with accomplished casts offer many a damask cheek and relatively few warts.
  • - Mis siis, sa pead ikka kontrollima, milline kuller on kõige soodsam ja siis seda ütlema Tatsutahime Diary Entry
  • If the Iheriff return that the diftrefs is eloigned, fo that he cannot deliver them upon the replevin, or upon the retorno bar itendoy the withernam goes; for where it appears there cannot be a delivery made of the fame, the law commands an equivalcniK The law and practice of distresses and replevin;
  • Audiard has done a masterful job of creating a brash, nervy film that is poignant without ever being pretentious.
  • The trouble with retrospection - especially the kind of hagiographical retrospection that comes with a box set - is that it lends everything added poignancy.
  • Those States have assume the right of deciding upon the propriety of our domestic institutions; and have denied the rights of property established in fifteen of the States and recognized by the Constitution; they have denounced as sinful the institution of slavery; they have permitted open establishment among them of societies, whose avowed object is to disturb the peace and to eloign the property of the citizens of other States. The Volokh Conspiracy » Was the Declaration of Independence an Example of Secession, Revolution, or Both?
  • Very different is an arpillera entitled Dancing cueca alone, in design reminiscent of a Toulouse Lautrec poster and in content deeply poignant and dignified, speaking of death and life together. OpenDemocracy
  • There seems something so poignant about it all. Times, Sunday Times
  • There is a poignant beauty in the process of decay. Times, Sunday Times
  • We passed out of the city by a gate where in a little coign of vantage a cobbler was thoughtfully hammering away in the tumult at Familiar Spanish Travels
  • The forms are varied, and pseudocubic crystals with complexly formed coigns have been found here; twinning has been observed.
  • Three new dramedies put the search for true love under a curious lens with appealing and often poignant results. George Heymont: Painfully Awkward Situations (On Stage and Screen)
  • Barber's boundless melodic inspiration takes inspired flight from the surging opening movement through the moving, poignant Andante and rousing bravura finale.
  • C n'est qu'une confusion perpetuelle de la gourmandise proprement dite avec la gloutonnerie et la voracité: d'où j'ai conclu que les lexicographes, quoique très-estimables d'ailleurs, ne sont pas de ces savants aimables qui embouchent avec grace une aile de perdrix au suprême pour l'arroser, le petit doigt en l'air, d'un verre de vin de Laffitte ou de clos Vougeout. Notes on 'Economies of Excess in Brillat-Savarin, Balzac, and Baudelaire'
  • He can be rather repetitive, but his best work has great delicacy of colour and handling and a poignant sense of lost innocence.
  • His distinctive traits of poignant observation and self - depreciating humour are woven into the novel.
  • Now the NTSB has already gained a powerful ally and possibly the coign of vantage an advantageous position against the wireless industry. John B. Townsend II: The Lake Wobegon Effect and the Cell Phone Ban
  • It suddenly takes an aggressive post-rock turn with the addition of a ride cymbal, drums, and scratching noises until poignant melody lines appear, played by what sounds like strings paired with woodwinds.
  • Surely it is a poignant reminder of the capacity of the human being to suffer mental anguish.
  • And how poignant to reflect on Bell enduring a complex and messy time at the hotel buffet these past weeks. Times, Sunday Times
  • In fact, the dogwood is a poignant reminder of the hundred-year gap between the first and second incarnations of this garden. A Brand-New Olmsted
  • Performing the poignant trumpet call is the 92-year-old's way of honouring those who made the ultimate sacrifice for Queen and country.
  • The sculpture is a poignant evocation of the essential temporality of human relationships.
  • Bull 1980 in which director Martin Scorsese and his leading man, Robert De Niro, take the poignant story of heavyweight champ Jake LaMotta and alchemise it into a parable about anger, masculinity and human frailty, providing - in the scene where De Niro's hero beats his fists against the walls of his concrete cell - one of cinema's great images of futility and rage. Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph
  • But the poignant tributes to these two soldiers from those who loved them say so much. The Sun
  • Their music is peaceful and rhythmic, the lyrics are poignant – they eulogise the mountain and list the gifts it has given them. The battle for Niyamgiri
  • He himself plays the failed directors in Prénom: Carmen and Soigne ta droite.
  • There was such poignancy as McQueen spoke about the adoration of his Scottish roots and duplicitously being a London boy. Tamie Adaya: Enjoying A Quick Stop In New York
  • The presence of the rest of the family made John's absence even more poignant.
  • There's something poignant about two guys who adore each other. Times, Sunday Times
  • The story of lonely video-dater Julian and his cabaret-singing, sequin-wearing alter ego Joyce is told without hamminess or too much camp - although hugely funny, Venus Rooms is also moving, delicate and truly poignant.
  • Could be embarrassing and posey; instead, it's soigné and cool. Times, Sunday Times
  • This makes the events that follow all the more poignant, and later heart-rending.
  • Former football legend and renowned boozehound Paul Gascoigne has revealed that he is now an undead zombie walking the land, following repeated deaths while in rehab for his alcohol problems. Archive 2009-03-01
  • Samas, tuleb tunnistada, et päris minu rida see üritus polnud, sest suur hulk neid nn kõige olulisemaid filme olid sellised, mida ma juba eelinfo põhjal vaatamata jätan. Kolmas päev HÕFF-il

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