Sentences with phrase «emotional poignancy»

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

Whether through painting, drawing, sculpture, video, or other media, contemporary artists have drawn on the centuries - old tradition to create works of conceptual vivacity, beauty, and emotional poignancy in the present time.Structured according to the classical categories of the still - life tradition — Flora, Food, House and Home, Fauna, and Death, each chapter in Michael Petry's book explores how the timeless symbolic resonance of the memento mori, has been rediscovered for a new millennium.

Like archaeological relics, the works are imbued with a sense of history and emotional poignancy that speak as much to the earthly as to the divine.

A novel of great humanity, written with dry wit, edgy humor, and emotional poignancy, Irma Voth is the powerful story of a young woman's quest to discover all that she may become in the unexpectedly rich and confounding world that lies beyond the stifling, observant community she knows.

There are a couple of moments of emotional poignancy.

Matt Reeves» movie is pretty bad - ass — thrilling, terrifying and vividly rendered — but it also features some intimate moments of real emotional poignancy.

But Bell jettisons any possibility for radical ideals or emotional poignancy in favor of a hackneyed rom - com ending tacked onto a movie that's both stale and unpleasantly madcap.

When war breaks out, Mr. Brown's somewhat lethargic devotion to his country is forced into acute emotional poignancy.

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In keeping the emphasis on Doris's kooky nature and an ever - present feel good vibe, the moments of budding poignancy about aging and emotional trauma seem misplaced and seriously undercut.

Still, the movie doesn't seem to explore any new territory for Anderson, and it ever really reaches the poignancy or oblique emotional power of his earlier films.

His was a life rich with intellectual and emotional complexity and poignancy, unfolding during...

It is during these emotional scenes that the film is able to be effective, though Anderson isn't able to carry over the poignancy or sense of terror to other scenes, as the artifice of the main story, as well as the weakness of the main villain, snap things back to the mundane.

Special Jury Prizes To Be Heard, directed by Roland Legiardi - Laura, Amy Sultan, Deborah Shaffer and Edwin Martinez (USA, 2010) Jury Statement: «By filmically living with and sharing the dramas of a remarkably affecting group of young people over a period of years, To Be Heard wins the hearts of viewers with a roller coaster emotional ride... it's immediacy and poignancy make it a film that truly lives beyond the frame.»

The score also adds an extra emotional layer that increases the poignancy of certain scenes.

In previous works like The Siege and The Club Dumas, the poignancy and emotional devastation was a by - product of the tightly knit story, while in this book the emotional revelations feel like an adjunct to the plot, tacked on to give the derring - do of the almost 500 pages an emotional heft.

Infused with emotional depth and poignancy, Golden State takes readers on a journey over the course of a single, unforgettable day — through an extraordinary landscape of love, loss, and hope.

The work's poignancy lies in the implicit absurdity of attempting to quantify emotional experience, and yet today newspapers and the Internet are filled with charts purporting to identify the happiest cities on earth or the best places to live.

Fueled by the poignancy of emotional experience and by the sensations of memory, obsession and absence, Pierson's subject is ultimately, as he states, «hope.»