Sentences with phrase «poignance in»

There's poignance in that, even when it's windy as hell outside.

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As a result the second banana of this service comedy, the affable Harold Ramis, becomes its genuine dramatic center: his struggles to keep his buddy Bill in line have a strange urgency and poignance.

Judging by the film's latest trailer, this new movie has traces of the hip wit found in Neustadter and Weber's (500) Days of Summer screenplay, with poignance and philosophy similar to that found in the pair's script for their previous teen romance tale, The Spectacular Now (which also costarred Woodley).

Colorful and kinetic seriocomedy... Wes Anderson breaks no new ground thematically, picture comes closer to «The Royal Tenenbaums» than «The Life Aquatic With Steve Zissou,» but without achieving the poignance of «Rushmore»... Here, as in his two prior outings, Anderson's arch, highly artificial style gets in the way of character and emotional development, rendering picture piquant rather than profound... Full Review

But toward the two - thirds mark, the characters have been beaten and broken in so many different ways that their struggles take on a desperate comic poignance, like something out of Buster Keaton or Chuck Jones.

Virginia Leishman's richly cadenced voice imbues this tale of a changeling child, caught in a hostile human world, with poignance, dignity, and magic.

The Last Resort's layers and resonances are redoubled in their poignance and significance.