Sentences with phrase «especially poignant»

This issue (of how to collect this fee) became especially poignant this time around; when I tried to collect on the spot, people said «we're still looking at houses» and wouldn't pay on the spot.

Concerns regarding succession are especially poignant for small firms and solo practitioners who often suffer from a lack of resources to address succession issues but who are the most at risk for negative consequences due to an unexpected illness or other triggering circumstance.

Their temporariness is especially poignant given the impractical nature of Tatlin's utopianism.

I find these narratives especially poignant in today's turbulent political climate.

This statistic seems especially poignant: Bentonville was the western terminus of the Cherokee Trail of Tears.

They are especially poignant because they were painted at the moment when the Hudson Valley was beginning to have the edge knocked off that purity by industrial development.

As Helen Park Bigelow sees it, Edith's diary entry is especially poignant as it «says what someone else might take pages to express.»

That Himid suddenly finds herself in the spotlight is especially poignant, not least because her own work has consistently fought against invisibility, particularly in an institutional context.

I find the following statement by Macel especially poignant of your practice: «Art is the realm for dreams and utopias, a catalyst for human connections that roots us both to nature and the cosmos, that elevates us to a spiritual dimension.»

These detriments are especially poignant in situations where the hardship distribution ends up doing no good at all.

The choice of location is especially poignant considering the recent proposals in certain countries to block inmates» access to books.

It's especially poignant that he begins the biography in 1770 as a loving letter to his son.

Inclusion in this selection may be especially poignant for Rysa Walker, as this year's young adult ABNA winner who eventually won the grand prize as well.

«Revelations in this book will amaze people,» Young said, promising that Kennedy «went everywhere we wanted him to go» in the memoir — including Chappaquiddick — and that the scene where Kennedy informs their father of his brother Jack's death is especially poignant.

It includes a short piece about going back to New York City by R. and Aline Crumb, as well as a brief episode by their daughter, Sophie Crumb, and an especially poignant excerpt from Alison Bechdel's illustrated memoir Fun Home.

The events of Cleveland make this an especially poignant read.

The later poems are especially poignant as he knew he was dying of cancer.

Especially poignant are Joseph's handwritten poems, photos of his deformed skull and skeleton, and the hat and hood he wore to cover himself in public.

What makes this especially poignant is that in its 12th year, Grub Street's The Muse and The Marketplace conference she addressed is a major regional gathering of real quality and effectiveness — in a garret called Boston.

Try Maria de los Santos, especially the poignant Belong to Me, which follows a 30 - something who is dying of cancer.

This powerful tale of friendship and hope, made especially poignant by each girl's struggle to repair family relationships, will capture hearts.

This year's National Charter Schools Week is an especially poignant celebration as many states are reaching 20th and 25th anniversaries of their charter school laws (our state of Connecticut included).

08, the moment was especially poignant as she brought five of her eight grandchildren — all under aged six — across the stage to receive her diploma.

But after last November, there's an especially poignant satisfaction in seeing an unapologetic, first - of - her - kind feminist take down a cartoonish chauvinist in a climactic face - off on the court.

There have been similar plague - based apocalyptic films both before and after — 1971's «The Omega Man» and its 2007 offshoot «I Am Legend», for instance — but this one is especially poignant for British viewers, if only because the unfolding events are so much closer to home.

With no real musical soundtrack, the use of Neil Young's «Harvest Moon» is especially poignant and heartwarming.

A necessary inclusion, The Last Jedi is especially poignant as Carrie Fisher's last film before her death late last year.

And the deaths of actors like Shepard, Della Reese, Jerry Lewis, Martin Landau, Harry Dean Stanton, and so many others, all of them legends, were especially poignant for me in a year that was also rife with fresh discoveries, the faces I hope to see carrying Hollywood's legacy forward.

While Nakia is a bit of a rebel, Okoye is a firm traditionalist and the two women have an especially poignant scene in the film in which they argue over what loyalty really means.

Fletcher's Oscar win was made especially poignant when she signed part of her acceptance speech as a tribute to her deaf parents.

It was especially poignant to see Robinson, a lesbian filmmaker who's been working in the industry for years on various projects including The L Word, present such a radical film to both older audiences who were familiar to the character and young audiences who are growing up with the chance to see a complex women - centric narrative propelled by her.

Sometimes dismissed as overly sentimental and unnecessarily swift (it runs only 81 minutes), it's a more - than - reasonable adaptation, with an especially poignant turn by Morgan, just before he transformed himself into the wizard of Oz.

The simple inclusiveness of that idea and the feeling behind it — the sense that this nation, with all of its troubles, is something we're all in together — may sound especially poignant now, and even a bit quaint.

As Allen's execution date closes in, the documentary gives an especially poignant portrait of her friendship with the never flagging legal investigator David Presson.

And it's especially poignant if it's the last time you'll see them until after the festive season.

«fear of taking a chance only controls the unprepared mind» — so well said and especially poignant for me.

Erin thought the following part was especially poignant:

And an especially poignant point: The most confident people in the world are the humblest.

It is especially poignant to me now, living in Flint, Michigan, and watching Nestlé guzzle up water from the lakes and ground water for pennies, while residents can't drink the water from their own taps.

This is an especially poignant issue for erp, who is 76 years old and would like to lose weight for her upcoming knee replacement surgery, but can not walk.

It's a fun reflection of the aspects of my life that have been especially poignant and noteworthy lately.

It is especially poignant that this notion of entrepreneurial exploitation of space has appeared in the same week that the United Nations warned of the impending deaths of millions from starvation — which could be avoided with a mere fraction of the investment proposed for vanity space projects.

For Kathy LaTour, seeing the results of her husband's research published is especially poignant.

Today's Puerto Rican flag raising at Springfield City Hall was especially poignant.

«I'm a little bit feeling like I'm 22 years old again, running around, trying excessive numbers of dresses on and things like that,» she said, adding that, while stressful, the experience had been especially poignant, given the circumstances.

«The third day of the walk will be especially poignant for our Accolade Wines colleagues in Stellenbosch, because the journey begins at the Kayamandi Primary School.

Whilst the tragedy of the Holocaust is especially poignant for Jewish people, who believe themselves to be the chosen people of God, it is an agonizing concern for all believers in God.

Especially poignant was one Palestinian's comment that as a naturalized U.S. citizen he felt at home in the U.S. even though he was born in Palestine.

Among these, an exchange between two aging figures, John Jay of New York and Elias Boudinot of New Jersey, is especially poignant.

His fictional testimony to the power of human virtue and solidarity is rendered especially poignant by Cheever's recent death from cancer at age 69.