Sentences with phrase «parts poignancy»

Delving into equal parts poignancy and playfulness with surety and poise, Greta Gerwig makes an impressive and unhesitating directorial debut with the charismatic coming - of - age comedy Lady Bird.

Able to play characters ranging from a name - dropping Manhattan socialite to a withdrawn, abused wife, the 6» 0» Janney infuses all of her portrayals with equal parts poignancy and unforced gusto.A product of Dayton, Ohio, where she was born November 19, 1959, Janney was raised as the daughter of a homemaker and the president of a real estate firm.

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It is part of «grief's slow wisdom» (The phrase is from a poem by Owen Meredith, in The Wanderer in Italy) that only time can heal the poignancy of the hurt.

I think I prefer my verse to be a mixture of poignancy and improv, part comedy and romance, with enough drama to keep me grounded and a greek chorus to help me keep things in perspective.

42 Up is filled with truth and poignancy as these people reflect on their first half of their lives, their goals, ambitions, and how they, for the most part, succeeded in reinventing them.

The laid - bare poignancy and touching immediacy of these films are exactly the kind of thing that is too often jettisoned by studio pictures; they're part of what makes indie film great, and connection with those common themes are, let's hope, a trend that we'll continue to see in independent film this year.

«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.»

The sum of the parts is both the sum and the parts, and the poignancy of that equation is beautifully realized in these works.

Part of this comes from the poignancy of the faces of those maligned and attacked by state - sanctioned violence, whether they are anonymous or famous faces.