How To Use Poignant In A Sentence
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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.
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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
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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.
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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
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The truly poignant moments were those that followed.
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Poignantly stated and played, the two guitarists spread out and cover the space.
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The film is not attempting poignant comments on reality - it aims at grace and good humour.
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Her tragic death, poignantly captured on grainy mobile telephone footage, has flashed around the world.
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Jewish life is poignantly described in Wiesel's journal, "The Jews of Silence".
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It is especially poignant that he died on the day before the wedding.
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The poignant note lay in a bed of roses on an ivory white casket that featured two joker playing cards.
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There seems something so poignant about it all.
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The power of the book comes, though, from the poignant descriptions of the well-meaning but disconnected members and friends of the family.
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We got it going, and after a while out came this rather wonderful, plaintive and poignant sound.
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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.
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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.
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It is especially poignant that he died on the day before his wedding.
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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.
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The floor was strewn with roses, a detail that seems painfully poignant now.
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And how poignant to reflect on Bell enduring a complex and messy time at the hotel buffet these past weeks.
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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.
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We grasp the poignant loneliness of the elevator attendant, sigh when Rhoda is hurt and squirm at the office busybody's interference.
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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.
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… 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.
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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.
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The paradox is poignant and the lives of the two drivers remain intertwined.
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Her face was a poignant reminder of the passing of time.
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Today, the Residency, a well-preserved and poignant memory of the Raj, is worth visiting.
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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.
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That was not the only poignant moment.
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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.
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“” 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
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To die is poignantly bitter, but the idea of having to die without having lived is unbearable. Erich Fromm
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There's something poignant about two guys who adore each other.
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The dialogue is often poignant and moving, but the play is never allowed to slip into sentimentalism.
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To me it was very poignant, almost apologetic.
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A poignant and often humorous memoir, full of energy and life.
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A poignant emotion clouded the joy of the disencumbered barricade.
Les Miserables
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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
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The score is cabaret style and combines the biting satire of Kurt Weill and the lush, poignant lyricism of Berg.
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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
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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
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And as poignant as that analogy may be, it is not the crux of the matter.
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I think you will all find it touching and poignant.
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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?
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But the film is strikingly bereft of tangible anger, its mood more poignant than incendiary.
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What he gets is the poignant, emollient presence of Connelly who looks soulfully at him.
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In a poignant postscript the actor died soon after the film's release.
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It's a humorous, serious, poignant, moving script, that genuinely explores the value and meaning of education.
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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
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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.
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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.
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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
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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.
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This was a moving, poignant ceremony, which gave solace to the parents and families.
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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.
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His death at a time when more than half the country still remains to be tackled is especially poignant.
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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.
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The whole affair ranged from poignant to embarrassing.
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Its childish simplicity, with cheap cha-cha beatbox rhythm and wobbly guitar, is both disarming and strangely poignant.
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They paid their poignant tributes as two teenage brothers were comforting each other after being orphaned in the tragedy.
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Their bipedality is dramatically confirmed by the poignantly evocative set of footprints discovered by Mary Leakey in fossilized volcanic ash.
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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
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They act as a poignant reminder of the tragic incident seven days ago.
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Instead we are offered a panorama of uniquely flawed relationships each imbued with enough personality to be poignant and credible.
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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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poignant grief cannot endure forever
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Through a blanket of cold drizzle, there could be no sight more poignant than this abandoned village.
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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
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It was incredibly moving, poignant and tragic.
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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
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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
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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.
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This poignant love story is an absolute must-see.
The Sun
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It is poignant without being preachy, invested with subtleties when the penchant in the past would have been to go overboard.
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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.
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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
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It is also a poignant and often funny drama based around two strong female characters, an unusual and refreshing choice for any genre.
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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.
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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
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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.
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Acclaimed Australian composer Moya Henderson reveals the process and the poignant story at the heart of her new radiophonic composition.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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This tactile, sensual experience was made more poignant by the knowledge that these substances were pure, unalloyed, irreducible.
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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.
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Sometimes funny, sometimes poignant, this title reaches into the heart where light shines on the everyday foibles of living.
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New York night life in all its true, hilarious, horrific, poignant and pinheaded glory.
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His books are also meditations on sadness, a fact more poignant when he says that his books are always about him.
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As on earlier discs, he enlivens Caribbean traditions with masterful jazz piano, by turns clamorous, poignant, playful and even swinging.
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A poignant but erroneous cliche has made its way into journalism over the past few years.
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Pregnancy has the further effect of burnishing Demi's biography: It makes her hardscrabble childhood seem more poignant.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Making the family history show came at a particularly poignant time for the actor.
The Sun
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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
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The book is 'wonderful', 'poignant', 'engaging', 'warm-hearted' and 'almost faultless'.
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she spoke poignantly
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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.
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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.
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It is like a rare malt whisky: poignant, smoky and with a taste that makes you think of many great and important things.
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Poignant and performed without syrupy emotion, this is a lovely surprise.
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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.
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The ending offers a particularly haunting and poignant gesture - the reunion of a family torn apart on a purely phantasmic, spiritual cinematic plane.
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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.
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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
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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
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Audiard has done a masterful job of creating a brash, nervy film that is poignant without ever being pretentious.
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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.
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There seems something so poignant about it all.
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There is a poignant beauty in the process of decay.
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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)
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Barber's boundless melodic inspiration takes inspired flight from the surging opening movement through the moving, poignant Andante and rousing bravura finale.
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He can be rather repetitive, but his best work has great delicacy of colour and handling and a poignant sense of lost innocence.
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His distinctive traits of poignant observation and self - depreciating humour are woven into the novel.
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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.
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Surely it is a poignant reminder of the capacity of the human being to suffer mental anguish.
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And how poignant to reflect on Bell enduring a complex and messy time at the hotel buffet these past weeks.
Times, Sunday Times
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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
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Performing the poignant trumpet call is the 92-year-old's way of honouring those who made the ultimate sacrifice for Queen and country.
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The sculpture is a poignant evocation of the essential temporality of human relationships.
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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.
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But the poignant tributes to these two soldiers from those who loved them say so much.
The Sun
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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
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The presence of the rest of the family made John's absence even more poignant.
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There's something poignant about two guys who adore each other.
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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.
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This makes the events that follow all the more poignant, and later heart-rending.
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The passing of a beloved relative is always sad, but there is something especially poignant about the death of the last member of a generation in a family.
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Footage from "A Fire in My Belly"—much of it edited to music from Diamanda Galas's "Plague Mass"—is spliced in for a searingly poignant effect.
Censored, Censured, but Never Forgotten
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Cronenberg fashions a remake of the cheesy 1958 original that is by turns funny, poignant, repulsive, and intense.
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Each will sit on a breadboard engraved with text matching European with African languages in what Boshoff sees as a futile but poignant attempt to claim a common humanity.
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Vast arrays of characters are played with fluency, creating extremely funny, but poignant, moments with an economy of style that keeps things clear and simple.
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It recalls invertedly, perhaps, the end of The Third Man, which is a similarly lenghty shot & poignant idea of parting & leaving.
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Products are contemporary and truly covetable, and motifs and themes are often poignant.
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In fact, it seems a little rushed at first, but the time is well saved when we start to meet all the characters, and trot alongside this gentle love story full of poignant moments and goofy funny bits.
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Gracie sits next to a rosebud and tree trunk, a poignant reminder of a life cut short.
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The picture was all the more poignant for me because of the stark contrast offered by the youngsters' skeletal bodies and the gay colours and rich decoration of their mothers' dresses.
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England, his own poignant sense of possession in her and by her, his own intolerable aching at the heart at his envisagement of her enormously beset.
If Winter Comes
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The presence of the rest of the family made John's absence even more poignant.
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The presence of the rest of the family made John's absence even more poignant.
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The Queen yesterday marked the 50th anniversary of her father's death - and of her accession to the throne - with a poignant visit to a cancer unit.
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One letter was particularly poignant for Radcliffe in the clutter of condemnation, self-analysis and doubt that accompanied her return from Athens.
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With her first album came a poignant back story.
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Listening to the discussion of this question prompted a poignant reminder that, belying the stories of meteoric rise to success, there's the often-forgotten story of sweat and toil.
Erdin Beshimov: Meeting The Right People: How I Was Inspired And What I Learned
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Joyce's work began to attract attention from the public and she soon found her mailbag bulging with humorous, poignant, personal and often downright silly house names from around the country.
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The poignant note lay in a bed of roses on an ivory white casket that featured two joker playing cards.
The Sun
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This intrusion or invasion into the thick impasto of the declamatory surface is peculiarly poignant and suggestive.
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What remains in the Waning West is a poignant landscape rich in local meanings, a reminder of a past that never quite produced sustained material abundance.
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The scene mercilessly loops through the ‘he said’ and ‘she said’ of a broken relationship while the brutal realities of class and skin tone differences keep the dialogue both acidic and poignant.
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Imbedded in history, these iconic images resonate with viewers while preserving moments - both thrilling and poignant - from our collective history.
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The Festival got off to a poignant start with a minute silence dedicated to the late Conor O'Callaghan who's work on and passion for the Festival saw it grow from a small summer festival to a crowd pulling unmissable musical feast.
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It's all the more poignant and meaningful to me because we were in midlife - I was 43 when I met him and he was 50.
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The play is a poignant domestic tragedy which follows the death of a seemingly faithful wife once her infidelities have been discovered.
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Ende's poignant text reads like a journal of displacement and disillusion.
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It ends poignantly but perfectly, like a well-crafted short story.
Times, Sunday Times
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The best thing about this good play is the poignant and witty script.
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It's a poignant, almost heartbreaking portrait of urban American loneliness, alienation and obsession.
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This album is an irresistible blend of blues, rootsy soul, and soft acoustic rock, with poignant and heartfelt lyrical phrasing.
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Forty days is the mourning period and he was working on that last, agonizing, poignant day because he too needed the money so desperately for his remaining small family.
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Talk to intranet champions at big enterprises, and you'll soon hear a familiar, poignant lament.
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This is made more poignant by the fact that some of their comrades had died.
Times, Sunday Times
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Although many consider Crouching Tiger,Hidden Dragon to be foremost an excellent kung fu movie,the story depicts many forms of love,the most memorable of which is the poignant romance between the two star-crossed lovers played by Chow Yun fat and Michelle Yeoh.
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When at the song's close an infected white blood cell was momentarily screened, it was almost painfully poignant.
Times, Sunday Times
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With so many differences that separate and divide us, I find it a treat to connect with smart, passionate, talented bloggers who offer their experiences in wry or poignant, frank or even silly on-line content in their blog.
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The Narrows is Connelly at his best, producing the creepy, cunning killer he is famed for and, at the same time, weaving into the story line plausible human drama, such as Bosch's poignant attempts to bond with his newly discovered daughter.
The Narrows: Summary and book reviews of The Narrows by Michael Connelly.
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I usually do quirky, or poignant, or lyrical - weak and equivocating.
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It is the heart-warming and poignant story of three people whose lives are closely linked although they do not know it yet.
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As this was a poignant reminder of the events that turned the outcome of the Second World War, many will have been disappointed by the snub from the French Government to Her Majesty the Queen, who herself served in the forces during the war.
Remembering the D-day landings
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Much more than a straight narration of history, they have shed light on the social realities of those days in a poignant manner.
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The poignant note lay in a bed of roses on an ivory white casket that featured two joker playing cards.
The Sun
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It is a poignant teenage coming-of-age movie, too.
Christianity Today
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This was so poignant and moving, and superbly executed by Urmana and Furlanetto, plus Mr Pappano and his amazing band, that I was in floods of tears.
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Her scat was her signature, but her voice possessed a heavenly perfection that could make a poignant ballad or a silly ditty sound equally sublime.
The Scat Lady
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Here, in the debilitating heat, breathing in the thick scent of the frangipani trees which shade the graves, a grim episode of 20th century history becomes poignantly and powerfully vivid.
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The present sculpture is among the most poignant and compelling of Rodin's works.
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This is a poignant mosaic of testimonies performed by a very strong and versatile cast.
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Although many consider Crouching Tiger,Hidden Dragon to be foremost an excellent kung fu movie,the story depicts many forms of love,the most memorable of which is the poignant romance between the two star-crossed lovers played by Chow Yun fat and Michelle Yeoh.
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Naomi's mothering experiences are poignantly described in her fiction.
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Her work is colourful, poignant and multilayered.
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Among the numerous paintings in his outdoor gallery were poignant representations of the Crucifixion of Christ, the Nativity, the Three Wise Men, and the Annunciation to the Shepherds.
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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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What, for the original friars, was poignant about plainchant?
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The presence of the rest of the family made John's absence even more poignant.
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This last observation seems so heartfelt, so poignantly rendered, that one can only advise Mr de Botton himself to cease his solitary endeavours and take the plunge into the pleasures of office life.
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The film catalogues his cross-country journey to confront old flames and discover the truth in a poignantly comedic way.
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The photograph awakens poignant memories of happier days.
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The floor was strewn with roses, a detail that seems painfully poignant now.
Times, Sunday Times
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Also, there's this half-assed ongoing sublot about a few of kids 'parents, whose marriages are all on the rocks because one of them's cheating and the other's a work-a-holic and mommy takes pills and they're all just too self-involved to do much in the way of parenting, which we're supposed to understand is the "real reason" why these kids are such unlikeable jerkfaces, thereby making this whole show a poignant statement about the breakdown of the American family's value system, as opposed to just another moron-exploiting melodrama about awful people leading terrible lives.
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With its energetic cast and insistent street score, it still manages to be poignant without becoming bathetic, and violent without being exploitative.
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The objectives of Harmony Day, which are particularly poignant at this point in time, relate to racism, intolerance and prejudice.
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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
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We have seldomly seen an artist who can express a typical mood, pose or sentiment so poignantly and charmingly with what looks like a few simple shapes and ink lines.
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And in fall, as the larches yellow and the willows redden, its colors are rich, poignant.
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We feel their poignant power today.
Christianity Today
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The sense of occasion and history was also made more poignant by the pageantry that accompanied it.
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It is the heart-warming and poignant story of three people whose lives are closely linked although they do not know it yet.
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Each mouthful is so poignant, however, that our appetite, if not assuaged, is at least abashed.
