Sentences with phrase «makes poignant»

Skarbakka's video, which shows the artist falling down a sandy embankment in slow motion, makes a poignant counterpoint to Herman's portraits of once - couples.

Radical Women's tackling of male - dominant systems makes it poignant.

Brenda Webster, Ethel Schwabacher's daughter, herself a critic and author, makes a poignant statement that so many women can understand: «My mother, though she was struggling for recognition did not want to be recognized as a woman.

In this provocative documentary play, seven award - winning female playwrights give voice to women's issues around the globe, weaving the accounts of politically engaged women into a powerful drama that makes their poignant, personal stories universal.

Much like Wonder Woman, it's makes a poignant statement without coming across as cynical.

Lord Mandelson's recent reflection on Blair's refusal to condemn Israel during its war against Hizbollah makes poignant reading this week:

Last April, broadcaster and journalist Janet Street - Porter made a poignant observation about the society we're becoming, and suggested that we're using technology like a rabble of loud bullies.

It manipulates the whimsy of fan - boy power that Jared Hess explicated in his fine but critically reviled Gentlemen Bronchos (a comedy about young, would - be sci - fi novelists) and that David Gordon Green's 2000 George Washington, with its poor Southern boy wearing an old football helmet, basketball jersey, and kitchen - curtain - cape made poignant.

Last April, broadcaster and journalist Janet Street - Porter made a poignant observation about the society... More

Our pastor made a poignant mention of Josh Dugger on Sunday.

Washington's team made a poignant discovery while they were exploring the Bodélé in 2005.

He's made a poignant and touching middle - aged man's fantasy.

The story looks messy and boring, with some b - list celebrities thrown in just for fun, and no real attention given to truly making this a poignant yet funny drama about an important topic.

-- On the other hand however, we saw great accomplishments in education, the development of the mind, and a deep desire for peace, made poignant by two world wars and many cultural religious and racial conflicts.

Emily Riddle looks at the D.Daskalopoulos Collection in a new light for both a local and an international audience, as well as making poignant connections between art and archaeology.»

The timing of the exhibition is made poignant by a tragic event: on October 17, 2009, a fire broke out at the Projeto Hélio Oiticica in Rio de Janeiro, including the storage facility where Oiticica's works were kept.

With three female nominees, two people of color, and all with roots that extend outside of Britain, the optics alone make a poignant statement of who are regarded as «emerging» artists in Britain today.

At the beginning of the 1950s you made poignant paintings like Terre Brûlée (1951), which is an assimilation of the war and of such sights as you saw in Frankfurt.

Converting Nike Air Jordan trainers into anthropological masks, using the traditional colors of black, white, red, integrated with human hair, Jungen made poignant references to contemporary assimilations and the commercial devaluing of revered customs and symbols.

In evidence that Sanni has submitted to the Electoral Commission, he includes Facebook messages that Grimes sent him at the time senior Vote Leave staff were trying to arrange the donation; text messages that make poignant reading in the light of what happened next.»

In the wake of Wednesday's mass shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in South Florida, Black made a poignant observation that connected the dots between America's gun violence epidemic and toxic masculinity.

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That's what makes this essay so poignant: She arrives at the table with all the skills she needs, but her path to acquiring them sets her apart.

Poignant stories can humanize you and make your company more likeable, no matter your size, or current success.

This coveted award recognizes and celebrates the untold stories of Canadian immigrants who have made a significant contribution to Canada - all the more poignant this year as we celebrate Canada 150.

Over 80 % has been gained by XRP and the association has made more poignant partnerships so it is only a matter of time before the cryptocurrency is back over a dollar.

The inventors of slowcore make this already slow and rhythmic (and surprisingly spiritual) carol even more poignant

This piece of writing was so beautiful, tearful, sad, poignant and yet happy in some very unusual way because it made the dying happy to remember the love they had for others, mostly family.

At times bitter and angry, and occasionally over the top, Judge's story is enriched by a poignant appreciation of his father's faith and wisdom, a faith and wisdom that, after many wrong turns, he has made his own.

She has been described as «optimistic, authentic, poignant and laugh - out - loud funny, [capturing] the mom experience with all its pathos and humor,» and was named one of Sheknows.com's Top Five Moms Who Will Make You Laugh Out Loud.

Indeed, what makes them so poignant is precisely their artlessness.

The Easter incident made Pope Francis» Easter appeal for peace amid global terrorism all the more poignant.

On the one hand, I am freshly amazed at how profoundly our country has changed over the past 50 years, how much progress has been made in such a short time, and how poignant it is to honor Dr. King the day before we swear in the first African American president.

In poignant, sometimes tender, passages, Podhoretz misses his friends and the world they made together.

There was something poignant, too, in watching these foot soldiers in the Obama - Pelosi army being mowed down in droves, in many cases having been denied funding from national party headquarters with which to make a fight.

If it turns out that we are more than rational beings with interests, and that we make claims (sometimes angrily) based on honor and the need for recognition, then consent and deliberation that ignores more poignant spurs to action than mere interest will often fall short.

What makes the timing of my beloved brother's death so poignant is that he followed another faithful participant in ECT, Avery Cardinal Dulles, who died in December.

And can we believe that Jesus made the kingdom the central note in his message, taught his followers to pray «thy kingdom come,» with many poignant parables of the kingdom, and then had all this apocalyptic matter only grafted onto it?

They, through their work, produced a poignant rebuke to the idea that art was only for princes and popes or for making political or religious statements.

There is a strong critique going on (that is the word David uses), but it is poignant, it makes a statement about how it could be better and what Jesus might ask of us.

Which makes this cartoon very poignant.

The other extreme is to make forgiveness so terribly demanding that, as in the mind of Stavrogin, the poignant hero of Dostoevsky's novel Demons, it becomes unreachable.

The most poignant occurred in 1976, when Stags Leap Wine Cellars 1973 Cabernet Sauvignon was chosen over ultra premium wines made in France's famed Bordeaux region at a famous blind tasting held in Paris.

In the most poignant of his quotes, which will make even non-Dodgers fans blue, he said,

Tom Watson made an emotional farewell, starting with a standing ovation on the first tee and finishing in the darkness of a poignant scene around the 18th green.

They both make for riveting reading, although, more poignant is actually their record during the group phase, mustering only one win from their three Group C encounters at Old Trafford, that coming against the team which finished rock - bottom, Bursaspor.

And that's what makes their emphatic victory over Blackburn last Saturday even more poignant, as United's predatory instincts came into play and as soon as they sensed an opportunity to go top of the table for the very first time this season, they didn't just take it but did so with aplomb and with authority.

Now it's one of those funny stories we laugh about, and the fact that my dad is tied into it made it more poignant for me.

The report fails to address how to deal with fracking in flood plains — an issue made all the more poignant by tropical storm Irene.

Pandering moron... For emphasis, you know nothing and will remain a crass observer with low intelligence and obvious academic deficiencies poignant in your inability to comprehend simple comments made in lucid language.

I encourage you to take April, stress awareness month, to examine your stress levels, ask yourself some poignant questions about your health, and make the changes necessary to live a happier, healthier, more energetic life.