Sentences with phrase «poignancy when»

The melancholic air of «Arctic Summer» was given added poignancy when, two weeks after the opening, dealer Margo Leavin announced that this show would be her gallery's last.

The turn of events acquired a special poignancy when Pavia died soon after the work's recovery.

Widely derided as one of George Stevens» worst movies, its sincerity gains poignancy when you process its love - and - especially - peace message through Stevens» own backstory.

The model comes with poignancy when we try to respond to ecological crisis.

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

This model comes with poignancy when we try to respond to the ecological crisis.

This emphasis comes with poignancy when we consider our responsibility to the earth.

Not exact matches

The problem with being too easily offended is that when things happen that warrant righteous anger, our outrage can lose its poignancy.

But grace can be the experience of a second wind, when even though what you want is clarity and resolution, what you get is stamina and poignancy and the strength to hang on.

This cry, the full poignancy of which can be realized only when it is heard in the context which the seventh chapter of the letter to the Romans provides, is answered in the next breath, «I thank God through Jesus Christ, our Lord.»

When war breaks out, Mr. Brown's somewhat lethargic devotion to his country is forced into acute emotional poignancy.

Of course the rhythm of the immediate process has no being or achievement other than the determinate occasions it brings to fact; but that is the poignancy of change and becoming, always losing its thrust when it succeeds.

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.»

But when I read over the raw material I found myself reluctant to pull the stories apart and reassemble them by theme; there is a poignancy to these stories that would be lost in the reorganizing.

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 filmmakers burn up so much energy getting Chow onto criminal turf that the relationships once there are hastened towards poignancy, as when one of the thieves (Danny Lee) shows his loyalty to Chow by starting and engaging in a Mexican stand - off with the remaining gang members.

Elizabethtown mistakes countless scenes of people throwing their hands over their heads as they're walking away to some alt - pop tune as poignancy while mistaking Bloom as a viable romantic lead when he's more accurately a plaster casting of one.

We assume that she and Jack are divorced because of the poignancy ascribed to a late profession of love, but The Day After Tomorrow isn't interested in wives and mothers when, throughout (but especially in the film's latter half), it's pathologically interested in fathers and sons.

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.

But when you have a voice cast full of serious actors as you do here, they bring real craft to their performances and create moments of genuine poignancy.

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.

Visually commenting on displacement of a certain representation tradition, Rana succeeds in conveying the sense of poignancy at the passing of an era when images were easily readable.

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

Many of these contemporary works are well - trodden classics by this point, but seeing them in the context of nearly 100 years of art lends them a certain poignancy, especially during a fair week, when so many of the products being sold seem unlikely to endure for even another decade.

Poignancy and peace take over in Rico Gatson's single channel video installation When She Speaks.

These images took on added poignancy after 9/11 when the buildings that replaced his «fossils» were themselves leveled, although this time by a terrorist act.

The New York Times's Holland Cotter wrote that «when the film made its debut... after September 11, its poignancy was almost unbearable.»