Sentences with phrase «on poignant moments»

15 November, 2011 - The Power Plant opens two major exhibitions: a new project by renowned Canadian artist Stan Douglas; and an international group exhibition of work by younger artists — both reflect on poignant moments in cultural history and their enduring effects on our contemporary experience.

Orlean's essay reflects on a poignant moment when she first visited the resplendent district in its heyday; Taaffe's colorful monotypes recall the universal nature of time passing.

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Life - changing, poignant moments when all those gathered seem focused on God and God alone, free of distractions and the things of the world.

Its effectiveness comes in the juxtaposition of poignant scenes with downright hilarious ones; Kindergartener Ruby Bridges tells Jabari how to be brave, mere moments before stepping out the door and starting her first day at an all - white school (where she's most definitely not welcomed), which is followed by Jabari messing around with his future idol, pre-President Obama, on the night of Dr. King's famed speech.

The poignant moment when the tide of scientific history turned against the greatest physicist of the 20th century is marked by a long - forgotten paperthat Einstein delivered at the Brazilian Academy of Sciences on 7 May 1925.

During particularly poignant moments in the climax of certain arias you may notice the subtitles go blank for a moment so that you can put all of your focus and attention on the truly awe - inspiring voices in their company.

Weaving together a wealth of archival footage from the most glamorous moments in fashion history with André's poignant reflections on his life and career, The Gospel According to André is a cinematic monument to one of the most unique figures of 20th Century American culture.

But the film's best scenes — including a haunting moment on the beach and a weirdly poignant encounter with a disfigured potential victim — also suggest a dawning moral awareness in the femme fatale.

Shot in one unbroken close - up on Hathaway's hopeless face, it's an unforgettably plaintive and poignant moment that will shatter your heart into a million pieces and force the Academy to seal their votes tomorrow.

A late appearance by series stars Soul and Paul Michael Glaser highlights the picture's central failing — at that moment, Starsky & Hutch is propelled into the stratum of the meta - surreal: not funny, not poignant, just disturbingly reliant on a conversance and affection for a television show that most of us remember as being about a red Grand Turino if we remember it at all.

Much more than just «the iPhone movie,» Sean Baker's in - the - moment look at life «on the block» is brash and daring, funny, subversive, insightful and poignant.

In its most poignant moments, Tully addresses something common among those of us who've found ourselves on the other side of young adulthood.

Filled with subtle moments and raw emotion, the movie will move you and keep you on the edge of your seat until its poignant final shot.

He is best known for 12 Years a Slave, which might be how he was brought on board here, via Brad Pitt and Plan B. Either way, you hardly notice the score until the beautiful piano riff that marks the story's poignant moments, which you can hear around the 13 minute mark.

When he puts the moves on Evelyn, the moment should be poignant, but instead provokes squirms and giggles.

The evening's most poignant moment came his reminiscing about Anthony Minghella while working on Truly, Madly Deeply.

Zachary Quinto's Spock fares better, if only because Quinto infuses neutral lines with a certain melancholy, but he too does not get to build on the seismic events that affected Spock in the first film, his development limited to one poignant discussion of how he has reacted to his home world's destruction and one meaningless inversion of the most iconic image of the Star Trek films that takes a piercing moment and reduces it to farce.

A poignant moment comes when Sam explains with the use of a toilet roll, that the 150 dots present on each square of the roll represent 100» 000 years in the history of the Earth.

The movie's problems are exacerbated by a sporadic emphasis on elements that couldn't possibly be less interesting (ie Uncle Andy's less - than - savory extracurricular activities), and although the narrative has been peppered with a handful of undeniably poignant moments (ie Arnold finally breaks down over his unwitting role in his brother's death), The Stone Boy's inability to hold the viewer's interest on a consistent basis ultimately negates its positive attributes.

(A particularly poignant moment is when Radner mentions in her journal that, while sick with cancer, she'd watch herself on SNL reruns to cheer herself up.)

But it's the film's final scene, in which a camera trains on the ravaged, tear - stained face of Elio, a precocious 17 - year - old crushed over having just learned that his older former lover, Oliver, is getting married to a woman, that provides «Call Me by Your Name» with its most poignant and powerful moment.

Though primarily focused on the week in July 1967 when Detroit erupted in extreme civil disturbances matched by extensive police overreach, the arc of the film traverses the ways of life before, during and after this poignant moment in American history.

Plots built on unrealistic contrivances while also demanding poignant moments of reflective thinking rarely mix well.

Repeated shots of the nuns walking single - file down deserted highways on their way to Mass are among the most poignant and beautiful moments of his considerable career.

In one of the most poignant and powerful moments in the book, one of the interrogators remembers the way in which his father explained life in North Korea: «Even if we walked this path side by side, he said, we must act alone on the outside, while on the inside, we would be holding hands.»

There is always time to get crazy and party up all night long, but there will be poignant moments when you slouch on grains of sand staring out the flaming sunsets of Kuta Beach.

The resulting art works on canvas are poignant, beautifully expressed moments of deep despair and the struggle to understand «why?».

By focusing on those who enjoyed a brief moment in the spotlight before vanishing into oblivion, Page has hit upon a poignant metaphor.

Who was the first anonymous commentator in this thread to insult a real named commentator's intelligence and claim their statements were false in a bipolar rant based on their own purely imaginary stereotypes woven into an ad hoc international conspiracy theory between Mitsubishi and the Pentagon, despite the original claims being easily verified on the MHI, NASA, YouTube, and ANS web sites, so turning a poignant moment into (as DrJohnGalan correctly labelled it) «the unpleasantness shown here»?

The joy on the young players» faces was balanced by moments of poignant reflection.