Sentences with phrase «poignant example»

It goes without saying that lessons learned on the battlefield serve as poignant examples for leadership in action; after all, people's lives are at stake.

Here are some additional poignant examples for the sake of comparison.

But perhaps the most poignant examples of Saucedo's storm - spurred output are several pieces that came out of a discovery the artist made while surveying the damage in his New Orleans home.

A particularly poignant example comes when Brodeck is forced to flee the city where he attends university because nationalist thugs respond to a popular protest by smashing store fronts and savagely beating anyone who looks like they don't belong.

Bureaucratic misconduct by itself can happen anywhere, but there is more here than that, for the incident is an especially poignant example of the collapse of authority, memory, and tradition in contemporary Protestantism.

There can hardly be a more poignant example of the need for international co-operation than the drive against money laundering (which goes hand in hand with that against international corruption), nor a more clear example that, whether for good or ill, we live in a globalised world, where traditional definitions of jurisdiction and boundaries may be obstacles to case prosecution.

Yet despite the 90's haircuts and questionable denim clothing, I still consider Jerry Maguire to be one of the most poignant examples of the human experience.

The recent tale of Michael Burry, the eccentric physician and value investor portrayed by Christian Bale in the movie based on Michael Lewis» book The Big Short, provides a particularly poignant example.

If not, Netflix will be able to replace all those references to Enron with a more recent, poignant example.

A poignant example of this failure is the prison chaplain described in Sister Helen Prejean's Dead Man Walking.

8 C.S. Lewis» The Great Divorce provides a poignant example of the influence of grace upon the imagination and its creative response.

The reliable Hans Kung's recent interview as reported in the Guardian offers a poignant example of how far this has gone.

Dwight Anderson gives us a poignant example of this facet of the tragedy of alcoholism.

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 a study published last year in the Journal of the American Medical Association, researchers described a poignant example of this dynamic after they followed nearly 5,000 low - income families who moved out of public housing and into better neighborhoods.

The contrast between good and evil and right and wrong may be lost in the characters of Pinkie and Ida in this new adaptation, but this conflict of ideology does occasionally spark up in Rose, whose choice to love Pinkie despite acknowledging his evilness is a poignant example of religious morality meeting true love.

The most poignant example is the relationship between Chief and Atari.

For those too new to the profession to have experienced our vocation's ultimate high, this unique «quiz» might offer a simple, straightforward, and poignant example of the significance you play in the lives of your students.

This project, which challenges students to perform new tasks that are outside many of their comfort zones, provides a poignant example of messiness that transforms into a polished product.

But animal populations also experience wide - spread hunger, and the hundreds of emaciated young seals and sea lions stranded on California beaches in the past year were a poignant example.

And a series of sex acts drawn on prison roster sheets by the mysterious artist William Crawford — whose drawings from the 1990s were discovered in an abandoned house in Oakland, California — are a poignant example of what transgression can be.

(G. LIGON, quoted in «Neo-Archival and Textual Modes of Production: An Interview with Glenn Ligon,» in Art Journal, Spring 2001, p. 43) With its layered vertical bands repetitively emblazoned with the slogan «come out to show them,» Glenn Ligon's Come Out Study # 19 (2015) is a poignant example of his Come Out series.

Standing between this room and next is a small yet poignant example.

In one particularly poignant example, Dr Bond recalled a student who felt uncomfortable because «the lecturer was an Aboriginal woman» — intriguingly, the course was called «Aboriginal Woman».

Marie McInerney reported on the symposium in more detail on Croakey with some poignant examples of how children «understand what it means to be black» from a very young age, and shared research that showed tackling racism in schools may improve school attendance and education outcomes.