Sentences with phrase «like poignancy»

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She is content with the air of mystery and loss that hangs in the air like bitter poignancy.

When Wark proclaims that he's «always had trouble drawing nigger faces,» and so paints white men's faces on the bodies of black slaves, the poignancy of that movement, independent of its inherent poignancy, identifies Junebug as something like an allegory for the ways that we deny the things we can't escape.

Chris Weitz's heartfelt drama aims for the poignancy of The Bicycle Thieves, but only Demian Bichir's tender performance stops it from feeling like a lecture on immigration issues.

In the tradition of timeless stories like Charlotte's Web and Stuart Little, Katherine Applegate blends humor and poignancy to create Ivan's unforgettable first - person narration in a story of friendship, art, and hope.

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 an old formula that plays like a cross between John Hughes» 1987 comedy «Planes, Trains and Automobiles» and Stanley Kramer's 1958 jail - break classic «The Defiant Ones» but it's injected with such a poignancy and freshness that make it very hard not to be swept away with it.

Maybe not, but there's a surprising poignancy to Saulnier's meditation on the way violence creeps into the hearts of the bereaved, spreading across the branches of a family tree like a poison.

And the dialogue itself — the thing Crowe made his name on in his great, early films «Say Anything...,» «Jerry Maguire» and «Almost Famous» — so frequently strains for his signature poignancy that it feels like a parody of a Crowe script.

The film is like a Sean Penn - directed film without the performances, poignancy, or pain.

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.

If you like laugh out loud, dark comedy and poignancy in equal measures then you'll love Kevin Kelly's incredibly funny and intimate take on a mid-life man's misadventures as he makes his way through life.

Both titles feel like works of art as well as games and, while their stories are very simple, leave a lasting effect on the player, with a subtlety of tone and a poignancy rarely found in this medium.

Mental health and suicide have always proved difficult subjects to cover, especially in a medium like videogames where interaction and involvement are key, but somehow What Remains Of Edith Finch tackles both with an unrivalled grace and poignancy.

It's a game type that takes the most unexpected moment of poignancy from the campaign and turns it into an entirely new Deathmatch mode — one that plays like a slightly modified version of King of the Hill — it's just that the hill is a pigeon and the pigeon is moving.

His veiled paintings give sexual imagery a proper, knowing detachment, like Gerhard Richter or Pop Art without the thrill or poignancy.

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.

I found poignancy in the political, like the roster of Uruguay's «disappeared,» which Luis Camnitzer inscribes in the phone book.

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.

The subtle sheen of Triple Elvis, 1963, the dripping poignancy of Before and After, 1961, and even an unexpected discovery, like the 1983 portrait of Robert Mapplethorpe, which manages to capture all of the dark intensity of the lusty photographer.

It is their lens - like ability to capture fleeting moments of light and colour, and to convey both the brightness and the brevity of youth, that give her paintings their depth and poignancy.