Sentences with phrase «lend poignancy»

However, each uses light in a poetic fashion to lend poignancy and drama to everyday life.

My only reservation is that the death of Micah True in March lends a poignancy and sorrow to this the story; he was a remarkable person, and his death is a loss for the world.

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More important than the technical precision of the actors» turns is the rapport they all share — which ultimately lends this story of a family its authentic, immediate poignancy.

That being said, it wasn't the raunchiest R - rated movie I have ever seen, and that also lent to the poignancy of the movie's underlying themes.

James McAvoy and Michael Fassbender have such a lively and fraught brotherhood as former close friends Professor Charles Xavier / Professor X and Erik Lehnsherr / Magneto that it lends a touching poignancy to the later exchanges between the elder statesmen in those roles, Patrick Stewart and Ian McKellen.

It's that wit that propels a great deal of the surface pleasure of Cowboy Bebop with the archetype of the gangly American cowboy prophet / warrior, one referenced in a mid-film drive - in movie of High Noon attended by Jet and lent a certain degree of poignancy by the slow understanding that the picture (and the series that spawned it) is in love with nostalgia for a post-war age that, particularly for the Japanese, was fraught with ambiguity, shame, and tragedy.

«The abiding appeal of art,» he announces in the Renoir book, «springs from the presence in it of the characteristics which lend interest and poignancy to life itself: movement, contrast, rhythm, symmetry, coherence of parts, unity of form and meaning, and individuality of purpose.»

Many of these contemporary works are well - trodden classics by this point, but seeing them in the context of nearly 100 years of art lends them a certain poignancy, especially during a fair week, when so many of the products being sold seem unlikely to endure for even another decade.

Its relative ephemerality lends an unexpected poignancy to the installation while linking the artistic endeavor to the cycles of nature.