Sentences with phrase «at poignancy»

It's bad enough to be subjected to 158 minutes of earsplitting chaos, but to witness a clownish director making at pass at poignancy is excruciating to behold.

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I was reminded of this with particular poignancy a few days ago, when I read that the Japan Science and Technology Agency had awarded a grant of $ 3.4 million to a group of Japanese and American researchers in «evolutionary science and technology» for a project to be conducted at Monash University, the ultimate aim of which is to determine — based on models provided by Integrated Information Theory (IIT)-- whether it is possible to create «artificial consciousness.»

, betrays at once the poignancy of the writer's feelings: «The fear of you and the dread of you shall be upon every beast of the earth, and upon every bird of the air, upon everything that creeps on the ground and all the fish of the sea; into your hand they are delivered.»

If the 2 - 1 win over Manchester United to complete a rare unbeaten home record in Tottenham's final season at the iconic old ground wasn't an historic milestone in itself, once the pitch had been cleared by stewards and uniformed police after several pleading announcements, the afternoon was given unforgettable poignancy with the parade of 48 former Tottenham legends plus a cinematic trip down memory «Lane» narrated on giant screens by renowned Spurs fan, actor Kenneth Branagh, chronicling the illustrious history of the club and rendering many fans misty - eyed.

This phenomenon gives «Deathly Hallows 2» a particular poignancy, since audiences will likely look at these young actors and see themselves growing old as well.

There's inevitable poignancy to watching these fringe - dwellers of industrial society gaze yearningly at First World wealth, whether online, via the mountains - of - trash remains, or in a jarring group visit to a glossy car show.

«If I can't make it this year, I'm not making it,» Spielberg said of The Post, which has Trump parallels at every turn but would still be a fascinating movie stripped of its new - found poignancy.

Muriel's Wedding runs into trouble when it looks for poignancy too openly, working better at giddy moments than in its occasional sad ones.

It's the mesmerizing moment - by - moment sensory power of this funny yet piercingly sad movie that resonates on the deepest level, the long unfolding takes — Doc and Wilson's Coy Harlingen on the fogbound pier at San Pedro, the shattering reunion with Waterston's Shasta — that soak up light, atmosphere, and behavioral beauty and accumulate a tremendous poignancy as they go.

Look at you Pixar, charming us again with your gentle humor and effective poignancy.

The movie is silly and ridiculous, but at times can demonstrate subtle poignancy and moments of graphic violence.

To express how far she has come, a final scene at the vacant District 12 where she encounters her younger sister Prim's cat Buttercup reaches a startlingly raw degree of poignancy and catharsis.

It actually is a riveting film at times, with moments of surprising poignancy and intelligence, and character interactions that are worthy of being diverted by.

Watching it at VIFF, in a 1,000 seat auditorium, feeling the entire vast room captivated and rapturous with every twist and shock and small poignancy, is one of the great movie - going experiences I've ever had.

Without overt messages or any idealization of ethnicity, some of our best writers speak with humor and poignancy about dislocation at school, in the neighborhood, and at home.

With wit, poignancy, and an unbounded love for his characters, Jim Harrison has again reminded us why he is one of the most cherished and important authors at work today.

For example, Peter Meinke's «The Cranes» depicts an impending mercy killing (and possible suicide), but at no time does Meinke state what's going to happen or what finally does happen; he merely depicts a couple talking in a car and allows readers to pull all the clues together to realize — and fully feel — the poignancy of what's at stake.

The stories contained here have the usual levels of humor we've come to expect from Ryan North but there's also an unexpected level of poignancy as we see just how Doreen was inspired at a young age by her first squirrel friend, Monkey Joe.

The single - player campaign does a bang - up job of imbuing your enormous bipedal buddy with personality: a faltering attempt at returning your thumbs - up is a moment of particular poignancy, as it struggles to understand the complexity of human emotions.

That makes people laugh at first, but then, once they get to know what Rhupert's message is, they begin to connect with the poignancy of D. Arthur's message.

Visually commenting on displacement of a certain representation tradition, Rana succeeds in conveying the sense of poignancy at the passing of an era when images were easily readable.

Much of the poignancy comes with the show now closed at year's end — from who and when they were.

Hovering at the edges of these works are intimations of suffering and mortality which layer the poignancy of experience into these vividly playful and bucolic scenes.

Pia Camil wants people to donate objects of power, aesthetic interest, and of poignancy for her new installation, A Pot For A Latch, at the New Museum.

In Sophie Barbasch's photographs her simple subjects, like crystallized cobwebs of a broken windshield, a sweater floating in open water, are at odds with their own poignancy.

His paintings, at once sophisticated, naïve and vaguely illustrational, combine a roving color sense and engaging paint handling with emotional poignancy.

Steers died in 1995 at thirty - two from AIDS, and his autobiographical paintings brought back all the pain and poignancy of the pandemic at that time.

At times dark and disturbing, always weighted in poignancy, and drawn on topical and contentious material, she repeatedly mixes the personal with the political.

Although his poignancy becomes evident as you spend time with these works, there remains the question of why Pettibon is being celebrated and showcased so heavily at this particular moment.

For Charles J this case had an added significance, poignancy even, since the lead case on capitalisation of periodical payments under MCA 1973, s 31 (7B), as happened here, is Pearce v Pearce [2003] EWCA Civ 1054, [2003] All ER (D) 467 (Jul) which «roundly rejected» (the words of Charles J at para 40), his own decision on this subject in Cornick v Cornick (No 3)[2001] 2 FLR 1240.