Sentences with phrase «offers poignant»

The game offers a poignant and entertaining single - player campaign that sets a new standard for first - person shooter.

The imagery offers a poignant mediation on the beginnings of life, from the tiny organisms that sparked the development of the world's diverse flora and fauna to the first experience of light.

Hypnotic and mesmerizing, the film offers a poignant reflection on the aesthetics of authority during an era of political upheaval and uncertainty ---- from the impact of Brexit to the unknown outcome of the current French elections.

The piece offers poignant insight about proximity, both spatial and ideological.

Rainbow: Rug is the first solo West Coast presentation of Israeli artist Moshe Ninio (b. 1953) whose oeuvre — comprised of drawings, photographs, and video — offers poignant insights into insistent universal themes.

David B. Frye offers a poignant series of paintings and sculptures that examine his family's experience post-1865 and the experience of the family that owned them.

In the same manner that the Pulitzer Prize - winning book «Parting the Waters: America in the King Years» by Taylor Branch and the PBS series «Eyes on the Prize» recount and contextualize the violent details and hard - won victories of the civil rights movement, the work of these artists offers a poignant lens through which to view the era.

The game offers a poignant and entertaining single - player campaign that sets a new standard for first - person shooter.

Zhao offers a poignant but also very entertaining and funny take on America's public schools, surrounded by America's public school politics and situated in America's pop culture.

And for any adult who's suffered the detours and disappointments of life, the film offers a poignant reflection on reality.

Sprawling future Western quais - epic Young Ones offers a poignant deconstruction of sci - fi and western films, an allegorical gaze into a murky future that strips both genres down to the studs and builds them up as one.

As it lays: Griffin Dunne's portrait of his aunt offers poignant insight into the writer's life and career

The most radio - friendly song on the record, if you can call it that, «Illogical» offers poignant lyrics and a driving beat that rivals any Avenged Sevenfold track.

Quick Hits: The Times» David Gonzalez, himself a graduate of St. Martin of Tours School in Crotona, offers this poignant piece on the school's closing and emotional last day of classes, which was last Wednesday.

With its array of historic buildings, the crumbling landscape of downtown Jamestown offers poignant reminders of a small city that was once a jewel of the Northeast.

Fruits of Exploited Labor In his book, «Tomatoland: How Modern Industrial Agriculture Destroyed Our Most Alluring Fruit,» Barry Estabrook offers a poignant exposé of the tomato industry, tracing the fruit's voyage through a mass production process that incorporates a medley of pesticides and herbicides to combat Florida's difficult growing conditions.

For that reason, many adults go to the movies to enjoy the latest animated film without children, not because they want to delight in «kid's stuff,» but because the genre offers poignant messages in a beautiful format that only these types of movies can really deliver.

The reliable Hans Kung's recent interview as reported in the Guardian offers a poignant example of how far this has gone.

It's also the perfect capstone to a true AAA franchise, offering a poignant conclusion that'll stick long after the credits have rolled.

He never talks to any Aboriginals, for instance, but a tip of the hat for writing eloquently about them, and for offering a poignant perspective on their plight by talking to whitey about them.

«Against the gritty backdrop of an inner - city ghetto rises the unforgettable voice of eleven - year - old Copper «Penny» Daniels, offering poignant and heartbreaking insights into the horrors and trials of homeless life on the streets, finding heaven where you least expect it, and help in those you never thought to ask.»

As he ascended to near - mythic status throughout the 1980s, the looming skeletal effigy offered a poignant and prophetic memento mori.

Gladwell, the consummate storyteller, offered a poignant story of Paul Simon and Garfunkel's song, «Sounds of Silence», and how the original recording flopped, until a producer rearranged it using electric guitar and the song rocketed to # 1.

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The Synod's task, then, will be to offer pastoral solutions to those suffering from loneliness, or from broken hearts and homes — solutions that illuminate rather than obscure the values to which their hardship gives radiant, poignant witness.

It is characteristic of the worship of the post-Exilic temple, therefore, that the two forms of sacrifice added to the rubric were the trespass - and the guilt - offerings, both expiations of sin, and that, in general, the sense of public guilt in the later Old Testament is poignant and profound.

Allin has a savage style in the ring, yet offered an insightful, poignant reason for fans to watch Never Say Never.

More Business of Being Born, available on November 8th, 2011, offers a practical look at birthing options as well as poignant celebrity birth stories from stars including Alanis Morissette, Gisele Bundchen, Christy Turlington - Burns, Cindy Crawford, Molly Ringwald, Kimberly Williams - Paisley and Melissa Joan Hart.

Inspired by the film Return to Zero — the first Hollywood film to tackle the taboo subject of stillbirth — this is a poignant, inspiring anthology that offers much - needed insight into the unique, shattering, and life - changing experience of losing a child.

In the most poignant words ever spoken by David Cameron, the Tory leader offered these thoughts to yesterday's Conservative Party Conference:

The sometimes feisty and poignant exchanges offer additional insight into how the two scientists are thinking about this complex and difficult problem, and into some of the points of debate raised by the two studies.

Well, Abraham - Hicks offers a pretty poignant idea.

The Blu - ray's default track, 5.1 DTS - HD master audio, offers a highly satisfactory rendering of it, making impact with everything from helicopters and gunfire to poignant music, rain, and tropical birds chirping from a distance.

Theron also does a lot of voice - overs, offering poetic or poignant observations that sound straight out of Terrence Malick's cutting - room floor.

Battle of the Sexes steps up its game to offer a sympathetic, insightful, poignant, behind - the - scenes look at the private lives of the public personas who stepped onto the tennis court of the Houston Astrodome on September 20th, 1973, as Americans on both sides of the political divide watched in rapt attention.

While co-directors Jonathan Dayton and Valerie Faris (Ruby Sparks, Little Miss Sunshine) wring tension and suspense from the same - day build - up to the match, the match itself — captured by grainy, fuzzy TV cameras with the occasional, ground - level insert — and the immediate aftermath (symbolic and figurative, more than real or long - lasting), it's in the months - long lead - up to the match, following Billie Jean King (Emma Stone, never better) and Bobby Riggs (Steve Carell) where Battle of the Sexes steps up its game to offer a sympathetic, insightful, poignant, behind - the - scenes look at the private lives of the public personas who stepped onto the tennis court of the Houston Astrodome on September 20th, 1973, as Americans on both sides of the political divide watched in rapt attention.

In many ways the film is among some of the best cinema has to offer this year — every bit as poignant and rewarding as you could hope for a film to be.

As both a true crime diehard and a spiritual supporter of the high school genre, I found American Vandal to be the most surprisingly enjoyable, ticklingly clever, and ultimately poignant offering to come from Netflix's seemingly random lineup.

Akin, who has said that the movie is inspired by recent real - life killings by a neo-Nazi terror cell in Germany, finds some poignant details: a tiny coffin painted with stars and moons; a tribute offering of candles outside Nuri's office, in the cold rain; a little boy's pirate ship on the rim of the bathtub, in the sightline of a mother who can't bear to move it.

Maya Angelou: And Still I Rise (Unrated) Poignant biopic offering an intimate look at the remarkable life of the late author / actress / civil rights activist.

EBONY Media Operations is proud to announce our new partnership with the collective of film connoisseurs, who will be providing insightful and poignant analysis of the very best Hollywood has to offer, ensuring our voices are represented within cinema dialogue.

They're an odd — and oddly poignant pair — outcasts both from the mainstream of their day, as a gay man and an «older» woman, who offer an unexpected look at the wages of nonconformity.

For those too new to the profession to have experienced our vocation's ultimate high, this unique «quiz» might offer a simple, straightforward, and poignant example of the significance you play in the lives of your students.

The Roles of Youth is a uniquely succinct, powerful and poignant offering to the student voice field.

Homegoing offers a clear - eyed view of the legacy of slavery and provides book groups with a poignant and expertly crafted story for discussion.

Beloved screenwriter Ephron offers a collection of essays and personal stories both poignant and hilarious, including a remembrance of her late sister, Nora Ephron.

This is Getting Old: Zen Thoughts on Aging with Humor and Dignity — $ 2.99 Susan Moon, the aging editor of a Buddhist magazine, offers an «intimate and funny collection of essays on the sometimes confusing, sometimes poignant, sometimes hilarious condition of being a woman over sixty,» according to the book's description on Amazon, adding that the author «keeps her sense of humor and... keeps her reader fully engaged.»

New York Times best - selling author Jennifer Weiner offers a frank, funny and poignant look at new motherhood,...

«Ingenious... Valerie's poignant romances open larger vistas where music and imagination offer wit and insight beyond the grayness of daily life.»

The rooftop terrace features lounge furniture that can be assembled into a comfortable bed and offers an intimate atmosphere to enjoy panoramas of the aquamarine waters and the poignant intensity of the Caribbean sunset.

From fighting bandits and besting challenging beasties, to losing yourself in the main story or plumbing the depths of poignant side quests (the Bloody Baron missions absolutely live up to the hype), this is the kind of single - player experience that flies in the face of the bigger publishers moving towards exclusive multiplayer offerings.