Sentences with phrase «poignancy for»

Pia Camil wants people to donate objects of power, aesthetic interest, and of poignancy for her new installation, A Pot For A Latch, at the New Museum.

Similarly diverse are the metaphors of time, memory, and family that can be relevant to any culture but which have particular poignancy for those who experienced China in the second half of the 20th century.

The trailer has been released for Enough Said; a rom - com that will bear a more potent poignancy for those who were fans of the late James Gandolfini,...

He no longer has the mellow calm that established a tone of resigned poignancy for Wes Anderson's The Royal Tenenbaums (2001).

'' «Fair Game» starts in New York City, set against a backdrop that will carry an air of what - if poignancy for many viewers: A new president is about to be inaugurated, and she is a woman.»

This assertion by the Apostle Paul possessed considerable more poignancy for antebellum Americans than for us because, whereas they lived in death's presence, we have largely banished it from ours, making the good news seem not quite as good.

Familiarity with death meant that resurrection possessed a considerable poignancy for the women, bringing a hope that countered the ubiquitous fear of death.

Not exact matches

For example, the Dutch painter Joseph Isräels (Frugal Meal, 1876) attempted to show that the most mundane acts of human experience conveyed the presence of the divine with far more poignancy than the traditional subjects of cross and cathedral.

I was reminded of this with particular poignancy a few days ago, when I read that the Japan Science and Technology Agency had awarded a grant of $ 3.4 million to a group of Japanese and American researchers in «evolutionary science and technology» for a project to be conducted at Monash University, the ultimate aim of which is to determine — based on models provided by Integrated Information Theory (IIT)-- whether it is possible to create «artificial consciousness.»

For example, the problem of evil takes on peculiar poignancy when the evil in view is the century - long oppression of Blacks.

That simple step of putting a baby to bed for the first time in his own room is full of poignancy.

Thanks for putting it into works with such eloquence and poignancy.

A gathering of top police officials for a viewing of a play about diversity took on added poignancy last night as NYC Mayor Bill de Blasio and NYPD Commissioner Bill Bratton acknowledged the murder of police officer Randolph Holder on Tuesday night.

Yet those behaviors don't remotely approach the complexity and nuance of human behaviors, and in my opinion there's not the tiniest bit of scientific evidence that chimps have aesthetics, spirituality, or a capacity for irony or poignancy.

Some will find Camille too self - absorbed, yet writer / director Mia Hansen - Løve (Father Of My Children) conjures poignancy, grace and a feel for symbolic seasonal change that's positively Renoir-esque.

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 performances also work for Indiewire, which notes, «It has considerable charm and no small amount of poignancy thanks to the performances,» but The Guardian can only give two out of five stars to this «wholesome drama.»

Muriel's Wedding runs into trouble when it looks for poignancy too openly, working better at giddy moments than in its occasional sad ones.

The World Trade Centre attacks are commandeered for faux - poignancy, turning this C - rate action flick into something all the more deplorable.

It's a bracingly dark comedy that skates savagely close to the edge, but there's also a poignancy here, a study of a socially inept outsider desperate for a life she'll never have.

Keach brought poignancy to his role as a veteran plane named Skipper in «Planes,» Disney's animated hit — he'll be back for the sequel — and he has a showy supporting role as the boorish former business partner of Woody (Bruce Dern), an elderly man who believes he's won $ 1 million in a sweepstakes, in Alexander Payne's «Nebraska,» opening Nov. 22.

As a tame dramedy, Dan doesn't have enough laughs or poignancy to save it for those not buying the crucial romance.

But Bell jettisons any possibility for radical ideals or emotional poignancy in favor of a hackneyed rom - com ending tacked onto a movie that's both stale and unpleasantly madcap.

When Wark proclaims that he's «always had trouble drawing nigger faces,» and so paints white men's faces on the bodies of black slaves, the poignancy of that movement, independent of its inherent poignancy, identifies Junebug as something like an allegory for the ways that we deny the things we can't escape.

Chris Weitz's heartfelt drama aims for the poignancy of The Bicycle Thieves, but only Demian Bichir's tender performance stops it from feeling like a lecture on immigration issues.

Still, the movie doesn't seem to explore any new territory for Anderson, and it ever really reaches the poignancy or oblique emotional power of his earlier films.

It's that wit that propels a great deal of the surface pleasure of Cowboy Bebop with the archetype of the gangly American cowboy prophet / warrior, one referenced in a mid-film drive - in movie of High Noon attended by Jet and lent a certain degree of poignancy by the slow understanding that the picture (and the series that spawned it) is in love with nostalgia for a post-war age that, particularly for the Japanese, was fraught with ambiguity, shame, and tragedy.

But Helen eventually will lay out the exact circumstances of their births, on the same day, in a scene that tries for poignancy and whiffs.

Delivering genuine thrills and poignancy while subverting genre conventions, this striking debut for British director Michael Pearce is both gritty and polished.

A few scenes fleetingly mitigate the almost total dearth of laughs by injecting weird poignancy: a return visit to the stripper played by Heather Graham plays out an interesting idea about the passage of time since the first movie in 2009, and Melissa McCarthy livens up the picture in a couple of scenes as a pawn - shop proprietress with eyes for Alan, suggesting that maybe what the otherwise hopeless case needs is the love of a good woman.

While it's just mischievous enough for the target demographic, the terrific ensemble cast elevates some predictably lightweight material, generating a crowd - pleasing mix of laughs and poignancy.

The reviews that have trickled through since its Venice bow support the Giamatti buzz: Michael Rechtshaffen's near - rave review for The Hollywood Reporter deems his performance «pitch - perfect,» possessed of «a stubborn vulnerability that's indispensable to the film's palpable poignancy,» and suggests that Canadian and possibly American kudos await him.

But the film compensates for what it can not provide in pathos and poignancy with taut staging, inventive scenarios, and compelling storytelling.

If there is a major criticism lobbied against Fruitvale Station, it's that Coogler utilizes creative license and injects several things into the story for the purpose of the poignancy and thoughtful commentary.

And the dialogue itself — the thing Crowe made his name on in his great, early films «Say Anything...,» «Jerry Maguire» and «Almost Famous» — so frequently strains for his signature poignancy that it feels like a parody of a Crowe script.

Jamie falls for Beth, and the poignancy and longing that Gladstone projects is deeply affecting.

By giving us all three, CBGB gives us none of them enough to satisfy, breathlessly running from one to the other to the other, never quite lingering long enough in any of them for poignancy to set in.

As Wade and his friends dive into the digitized memories of this Willy Wonka figure, searching for clues that might lead them to the next key, Ready Player One locates some poignancy in its creators» desire to reshape the world to their exact interests and specifications.

It's left for real - life husband and wife Krasinski and Blunt to add poignancy — and they do, particularly during one iPod - assisted slow dance.

Renton's brilliant reprise of one of the best - known intros in film history is one of the bittersweet delights of T2 Trainspotting, which isn't as stomach - churning as the 1996 original but makes up for it with lashings of Irn - Bru and midlife poignancy.

In supporting roles, Homar plays his respective characters Harry Caine and Mateo Blanco with humour and poignancy and as Ernesto Martel, José Luis Gómez brilliantly suggests the malice inherent in his obsession for Lena.

The poignancy of the film comes from these unspoken desires — for understanding, compassion, or, if one wants to put it bluntly, love — that are communicated through more prurient methods, from Razmik's quick sexual encounters to Sin - Dee's physical manifestation of jealousy over the loss of what she believed to be a genuine romance.

But the reappearance of an Oscar Wilde pendant (a reaffirmation of what the music does for the listener) gives poignancy, depth, and hope to the climax.

For the Voice, Laura Collins - Hughes wrote that Leonard brought «surprising glimmers of poignancy» to his role.

From the tangible yearning in «Belle» and the go - for - broke grandeur of «Be Our Guest» to the dark commentary in «The Mob Song» and the haunting poignancy of «Beauty and the Beast», each of the movie's seven songs move both the story and the audience in a way that few musical numbers can.

There are times when The New Colossus overreaches for poignancy, and as a result it states its themes too overtly instead of letting them stand alone.

The dynamic embodies a poignancy that is rare for a comic book adaptation.

My only reservation is that the death of Micah True in March lends a poignancy and sorrow to this the story; he was a remarkable person, and his death is a loss for the world.

With wit, poignancy, and an unbounded love for his characters, Jim Harrison has again reminded us why he is one of the most cherished and important authors at work today.

For example, Peter Meinke's «The Cranes» depicts an impending mercy killing (and possible suicide), but at no time does Meinke state what's going to happen or what finally does happen; he merely depicts a couple talking in a car and allows readers to pull all the clues together to realize — and fully feel — the poignancy of what's at stake.