Sentences with phrase «poignant by»

The show's equal emphasis on verticality and upwardness is more than poignant by contrast, converting the difficult space of MOCA GA's main gallery into a resonant, cathedral - like nave, dedicated to reflection and imagined transformation.

The timing of the exhibition is made poignant by a tragic event: on October 17, 2009, a fire broke out at the Projeto Hélio Oiticica in Rio de Janeiro, including the storage facility where Oiticica's works were kept.

Either way, the game's complete lack of threats or struggles become more poignant by the fact that you can't do anything to avoid your inevitable outcome.

It is a tender moment made more poignant by a highlight reel of their journey together in reverse chronological order.

Fountain perfectly captures the bewilderment of Billy and his cohorts at this phenomenon, made more poignant by the knowledge that the white Hummer limousine that will transport them from Texas Stadium at game's end is the first step in their redeployment to Iraq.»

This powerful tale of friendship and hope, made especially poignant by each girl's struggle to repair family relationships, will capture hearts.

-- On the other hand however, we saw great accomplishments in education, the development of the mind, and a deep desire for peace, made poignant by two world wars and many cultural religious and racial conflicts.

The importance of substitutes in the lives of students is made more poignant by class - size reductions, which have increased the number of classes at different grade levels and increased the demand for substitute teachers.

Whimsical and poignant by turns, the film never goes gooey at its emotional center or bogs down in heavy dramatic weather.

No need for unnecessary complexity or overly complicated situations to deal with, instead this film is capable of being poignant by telling a story of man on an island.»

Its handling [of the switched - at - birth twist] is as adept as fans have come to expect — and made more poignant by an uncharacteristically softened Sister Evangelina (Pam Ferris).

In Gorillas she leaves behind a scientific treasure, one rendered more poignant by her death in the service of these peaceful, intelligent beasts.

The report fails to address how to deal with fracking in flood plains — an issue made all the more poignant by tropical storm Irene.

His fictional testimony to the power of human virtue and solidarity is rendered especially poignant by Cheever's recent death from cancer at age 69.

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Now the 89 - year - old, the Academy's second oldest nominee (eight days younger than Faces Places director Agnès Varda), seems to have a clear shot at his first win for his gentle and poignant treatment of André Aciman's love story Call Me by Your Name.

The comment came during a White House listening session marked by poignant testimony from students and parents affected by school shootings.

Over 80 % has been gained by XRP and the association has made more poignant partnerships so it is only a matter of time before the cryptocurrency is back over a dollar.

In a poignant (if not slightly depressing) paper by U.C. Berkley, «Do Investors Trade Too Much?»

-LSB-...] Mass in F minor (1968)» The Church and ChangeFebruary 16, 2013 By James F. McGrath 2 CommentsDavid Hayward's blog is now at Patheos, and his latest cartoon is a poignant pun.

A poignant note sounded by those engrossed in threading through cybertalk is how they are forced to use words to substitute for all the other physical cues of face - to - face conversations and IRL (in real life) settings — no mood music, no roaring sports fans, neither candlelight nor disco strobes.

Achieving Our Country is a poignant plea to heal that breach, and since Rorty knows that his book will be read more by professors than by plumbers, he stretches his liberalism to appease both the academic apocalypticists of despair and the leftists of sexual and cultural liberation.

At times bitter and angry, and occasionally over the top, Judge's story is enriched by a poignant appreciation of his father's faith and wisdom, a faith and wisdom that, after many wrong turns, he has made his own.

The most poignant aspect of the debate unleashed by the Islamic response to Salman Rushdie's The Satanic Verses is the confusion it has revealed in the West.

Reconciliation is best illustrated by the poignant story of the returning Prodigal Son.

Actor and activist George Clooney has penned a brief, powerful and poignant prayer for the United States, which has been published by The Daily Beast.

Art Estopinan — who has a four - year - old son with a disease similar to Charlie's — has helped inform judgments about the Charlie Gard case by relating the poignant story of physicians telling him to take his boy home because he had two months to live.

At one church, you may be moved by the quiet, yet poignant celebration of the Eucharist.

That style was characterized by a marriage of rock n» roll roughness with upbeat yet poignant - enough love - song, but the latter element was the key one.

Though outwardly quiet, Burckhardt's life yielded poignant events and pungent quotes — niftily curated by the essayist and well served by his precise evocations.

Oh, this is totally random, but have you ever seen the film «Lilies», which won four Genie Awards in 1996, about the two young men of Roberval, Quebec who fall in love in 1912 — and the poignant tale of how their love is undone by jealousy?

But it is something more: something immediate and poignant in the embattled «little flocks» of the first century, known again in our day by millions in shattered and cut - off lives in cells, rubble, behind wire, and behind curtains.

It was a sleazy affair, with the newspapers publishing Weakland's long and maudlin love letter to the young man - a letter not untouched by poignant moments of contrition.

This poignant cry is followed at once by the triumphant shout,» I thank God, through Jesus Christ our Lord»; just as Paul's reference to man's bondage to sin and death in I Corinthians 15:56, quoted a moment ago, is immediately followed by «Thanks be to God who giveth us the victory through our Lord Jesus Christ.»

Jacques Hamel's brutal murder by two Islamist terrorists in July 2016 underscored this in a particularly poignant way for many French Catholics, and no doubt for Jews, Protestants, and nonbelievers as well.

The Forty - second Psalm is a first - hand document filled with the poignant anguish not only of practical misery but of religious despair occasioned by the Exile:

``... The delectable chile con carne, a dish evolved by the genius of Mexico, composed of delicate meats minced with aromatic herbs and the poignant chile colorado — a compound full of singular savor and a fiery zest to the palate.»

Produced by Robert Redford, Terrence Malick, & Nick Offerman and directed by Laura Dunn (The Unforeseen), this documentary is «a beautiful and poignant portrait of the changing landscapes and shifting values of rural America in the era of industrial agriculture, as seen through the eye of American novelist, poet, and activist, Wendell Berry».

The poignant video tells the story of how the humble wooden pallet has been superseded by the reusable plastic pallet, as we move forward into the 21st century.

The player then celebrated his birthday by tweeting this poignant message to his followers: «Dear All.

Sir: I was deeply touched by Robert H. Boyle's poignant story depicting the life and death of Willie Classen (No Man Was His Keeper, March 24).

Its effectiveness comes in the juxtaposition of poignant scenes with downright hilarious ones; Kindergartener Ruby Bridges tells Jabari how to be brave, mere moments before stepping out the door and starting her first day at an all - white school (where she's most definitely not welcomed), which is followed by Jabari messing around with his future idol, pre-President Obama, on the night of Dr. King's famed speech.

To see a mother in the midst of the most poignant life defining moment she will ever experience (as designed by the release of incredible birthing hormones to cause her to fight madly for the protection of her newborn AKA - survival) be told that she is not strong enough, fast enough, quiet enough, she asks to many questions, etc is nothing short of cruel.

Dating the Birth Mother — a light, but poignant look at what it's like to wait to be chosen by an expectant parent considering adoption.

But when she shared the poignant photos to social media, Dykstra was disappointed by her family and friends» reactions.

Inspired by the film Return to Zero — the first Hollywood film to tackle the taboo subject of stillbirth — this is a poignant, inspiring anthology that offers much - needed insight into the unique, shattering, and life - changing experience of losing a child.

Poignant, savage and shocking, I defy anyone not to be moved by this novel.

The method in which their new Chief Executive has been appointed is a poignant example of this problem and a source of a great deal of the ire of the protestors: elected by 689 votes from a 1,200 - seat committee of business elites, the three and a half million registered voters of Hong Kong had no say over who should lead them for the next five years.

In the light of the crash in global crude oil price, which is Nigeria's main foreign exchange earner, the devastating actions of aggrieved militants on oil and gas infrastructure in the oil - rich Niger Delta which has resulted in lock - in or leakages of crude oil, sometimes in excess of one million barrels that could have been exported daily, and the consequential rapid decline in the well - being of the masses, the urgency to fix the Nigerian economy by changing tactics from sole reliance on oil, becomes more poignant and urgent, hence the need for international experts to aid diversification efforts of the government.

But for many, the most poignant moment of the debate was a speech by Conservative MP Charles Walker, chair of Parliament's Procedure Committee and a key player in the drama.

The former foreign secretary emailed the then US secretary of state to thank her for a «poignant» message after he was defeated by his younger brother in the battle to lead the party.