Sentences with phrase «poignancy from»

It's a game type that takes the most unexpected moment of poignancy from the campaign and turns it into an entirely new Deathmatch mode — one that plays like a slightly modified version of King of the Hill — it's just that the hill is a pigeon and the pigeon is moving.

Mawkish, self - satisfied and false, This Is Where I Leave You strenuously attempts to wring poignancy from its familial clashes and catharsis.

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Granted that, as in modern hymnals, expressions of religious need and aspiration originally born out of individual experience were often used in public application and became the voice of the whole people, still that very poignancy that made them thus generally applicable came from the intensely intimate experience in which they started.

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.

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.

«Each time that I have listened to the president reflect on his Christian faith, I'm struck by the quiet poignancy of his words as he speaks from the heart,» said Stephen Schneck, a professor from Catholic University who has advised the administration in the past.

Written with courage and poignancy, this allegory from First Things» poetry editor ambitiously tries to take a step back from our society in order to show how America has drifted into becoming a nation that now seems to be waffling, especially in the face of the upcoming presidential election.

England won a subdued match 2 - 0 courtesy of goals from Dele Alli and captain Wayne Rooney, but the outcome of the contest was a mere anecdote on a night thick with poignancy.

The staging is minimal but the script is laced with humour, enhancing the poignancy of the production's central moments, with stunning performances from the exceedingly vulnerable Olivia Williams (O'Connell) and dogmatic Charles Edwards (Trebell).

It's Graham's transformation from insecure daughter and wife to journalist in her own right that gives «The Post» its narrative drive and poignancy.

Able to play characters ranging from a name - dropping Manhattan socialite to a withdrawn, abused wife, the 6» 0» Janney infuses all of her portrayals with equal parts poignancy and unforced gusto.A product of Dayton, Ohio, where she was born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.

Granted, whatever poignancy you might be tempted to draw from is completely rolled over by the avalanche of prurience that this film indulges in, but poignancy is so out of the picture here that it's not even a consideration.

The latest collaboration between director Jason Reitman and writer Diablo Cody features Cody's hyper - verbal brand of snark, cynicism and subtle poignancy, but it's tinged with the wistful perspective that comes from hard - earned maturity and experience.

From its first ethereal tones, Academy Award - nominated documentary filmmaker Matthew Heineman's (Oscar - nominated CARTEL LAND) CITY OF GHOSTS music score and sound design achieves a hauntingly simultaneous balance of nearly - imperceptible presence and atmospheric poignancy.

Though familiar in subject matter, despite its uniquely confident female perspective, Gerwig never hits a false note, oscillating between wisdom and poignancy without falling into the trap of the nostalgia from a period so clearly influencing this sweetly tuned homage to misguided angst, ignorant yearnings, and the desire to break out on one's own.

Whether it be the grimy terror of Wolf Creek, the pitch black humored sadism of The Loved Ones or the haunting poignancy of The Babadook, there's an idiosyncratic aura that separates them from their American counterparts.

Ivan Menchell and Clare Sera's script gives the big, dumb physical gags to Sandler and the boys, but mines some real poignancy, even some melancholy, from Lauren's kindly introduction to Larry into the ways of girlhood and from Espn's insistence that she can see her dead mother everywhere.

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.

It gets crazier from there, and there's both a dry wit and a poignancy to the film.»

However, the poignancy of the material certainly comes out, and much of the humor is inspired enough to elevate the film from a sure misfire to one that is smart and witty, even if it isn't altogether memorable.

To win he'll have to defeat his co-star from the film, Woody Harrelson, who brought much - needed humor and poignancy to the story.

Like its predecessors, it's a decent, relatively generic martial arts flick, with some added poignancy due to both the 52 - year - old Yen's encroaching retirement from action films and a subplot involving the terminal illness of Ip's wife.

Powerful drama from writer - director Kelly Reichardt («Wendy and Lucy») further establishes her as an auteur who finds poignancy in the stillness

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.

The key actors include two who have been with him from the beginning, Jack Wallace and J.J. Johnston, and others who show how the poignancy and rhythm of the material allows them living space inside the words: Robert Forster, Charles Durning, Peter Falk, George Wendt, Denis Leary, Andy Garcia.

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.

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.

From the States, where many of us who work with Publishing Perspectives are based, there's particular poignancy and concern here, not least because we have an abiding, sometimes quite charming sense of the UK as our progenitor nation.

The stories contained here have the usual levels of humor we've come to expect from Ryan North but there's also an unexpected level of poignancy as we see just how Doreen was inspired at a young age by her first squirrel friend, Monkey Joe.

The museum is excellent and never fails to have you reaching for your hankie, but sometimes the endless stream of tour groups can detract from the poignancy of the exhibits.

A kind of poignancy emanates from her work, resonating with the viewer.

«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.»

This is a two - person show from Ash Ferlito and Clare Torina that's likely to be a little bit cute, a little bit funny, and peppered with moments of unexpected poignancy.

This traditional way of life was under great pressure from industrialization, and it adds a bittersweet poignancy to these exquisitely executed works.

Much of the poignancy comes with the show now closed at year's end — from who and when they were.

Zak Smith (USA, 1976) Zak Smith's work moves from sharply rendered poignancy to candy - colored excess.

In a space of such personal poignancy, endowed with erotic charge, Burr's symbolic gestures reclaim and recuperate modernism's utopic aspirations from the failures of a racist and sexist past.

Ranging from glamorous studio portraits to dark images in catacombs, Hujar's work is known for the texture and poignancy with which he explores decay, sexuality, death, and the life we share in common.

Two other sculptures which also evince a similar sense of loss and poignancy are Blaze and Millie Fire, whose original burnt wood elements were collected from a massive forest fire near the artist's ranch in Montana.

And while his portrayals range from serene and august portraits to abrasive or outrageous caricatures, all were his instruments for addressing the poignancy, folly, and complexity of modern life.

St. Cecilia presents work from the nearly fifteen - year career of this internationally recognized artist, who is currently living and working in Chicago, and represents the various media with which he works, including video, sound, sculpture, and works on paper, to explore the poignancy -LSB-.....]

St. Cecilia presents work from the nearly fifteen - year career of this internationally recognized artist, who is currently living and working in Chicago, and represents the various media with which he works, including video, sound, sculpture, and works on paper, to explore the poignancy and humor of miscommunication.

In some of the works featured in the exhibition, Butterfield uses debris from the 2011 Japanese tsunami and burnt wood elements from massive forest fires near her Montana ranch and weaves poignancy with a sense of loss in the work.

Steers died in 1995 at thirty - two from AIDS, and his autobiographical paintings brought back all the pain and poignancy of the pandemic at that time.

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.

From there follows what Grynsztejn called Marshall's «working diligently for 30 plus years on a body of work that now has the kind of relevance and beauty and poignancy» to resonate in a major retrospective.

These two artists bring fresh meditations on the poignancy of geometric resonance, von Wiegand with a 1955 collage based on the Golden Section and Inoue with a small painting from 2010, a densely layered glowing blue grid of deceptive simplicity.