Sentences with phrase «added poignancy»
"Added poignancy" means an extra emotional impact or feeling of sadness or significance in a situation or moment. Full definition
Four sites in Yorkshire will host the sculptor's works, including the pieces he was making before his death in 2013, in event given added poignancy by the recent loss of his wife, the painter Sheila Girling
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It also takes on added poignancy in the wake of the artist's untimely recent death at the age of 48.
The cast is strong, but «Eye in the Sky» is given added poignancy by the final screen appearance of Rickman, who died earlier this year at 69.
Once all the prisoners are covered in foam, it is time for the finale: a version of Bob Marley's Three Little Birds, with its chorus of «Don't worry about a thing» given added poignancy within a prison visiting room, even though one of the men is still wearing a mop on his head.
A gathering of top police officials for a viewing of a play about diversity took on added poignancy on Wednesday evening as Mayor Bill de Blasio and police commissioner Bill Bratton acknowledged the murder of police officer Randolph Holder on Tuesday night.
Only one small side story breaks the string, and it only adds poignancy.
That Good Night has an obvious added poignancy as the final feature made by John Hurt (one of Britain's greatest screen actors) before his death last year.
This haunting version by Nouela achieves added poignancy with dramatic film clips.
These images took on added poignancy after 9/11 when the buildings that replaced his «fossils» were themselves leveled, although this time by a terrorist act.
The melancholic air of «Arctic Summer» was given added poignancy when, two weeks after the opening, dealer Margo Leavin announced that this show would be her gallery's last.
Adding poignancy to the fact that things perish is the fact that the most beautiful things are the most perishable of all.
Sequels that overtly function as the end of a franchise or series usually have added poignancy.
Like its predecessors, it's a decent, relatively generic martial arts flick, with some added poignancy due to both the 52 - year - old Yen's encroaching retirement from action films and a subplot involving the terminal illness of Ip's wife.
It's left for real - life husband and wife Krasinski and Blunt to add poignancy — and they do, particularly during one iPod - assisted slow dance.
That Kelley had been involved in its organization only gave the idea of this retrospective exhibition an added poignancy in light of the artist's suicide in January 2012.