Sentences with phrase «poignant examples»

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.

Technological changes play a big part in combatting climate change, and on 10/10/10 two of the most poignant examples of that are: 850 universities in China, India, and the US will join in the Great Power Race clean energy competition; and, in Barbados, a group of young people will demonstrate a hovercraft they've built which is powered by fuel cells.

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.

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.

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

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 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.

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.

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.

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

It is hard for me to think of a different equally poignant example of the foreseeable consequence faced by fellow creatures on the planet.

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.

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The book is also filled with poignant and hilarious examples of haters gone wild, and companies gone crazy, as well as inspirational stories of companies turning bad news good with speed, compassion, and humanity.

But if you look, for example, at my most recent film, The War, you will see that issues of faith and spirituality abound in it, in very poignant moments and in humorous ones.

The evidence for this theory is particularly poignant and hopeful for families where there has been a disruption in infant - caregiver bonding, for example if a mother or parent has experienced illness, complications or trauma during pregnancy, labour or birth.

It is also just one example from a full house of poignant epigrams peppering the script of this fast - paced production.

The Angulos being the Angulos, there are poignant and funny moments here and there in these scenes — one of the boys giddily fantasizing about the fact that a bit of the money from his ticket purchase might go to Russell, Mark Wahlberg, and Christian Bale, for example, which embodies the same recapturing of childlike awe toward industrial pop that figures in The Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt or, for that matter, a great deal of faux - naïve, ga - ga pop journalism, and which I suspect has something to do with The Wolfpack's crossover appeal.

Sincere, poignant, wise and often funny, it, along with City Lights, is maybe the best example of Chaplin's unique ability to be sentimental without being maudlin.

You can read reviews by Wally Lamb, Publishers Weekly and Library Journal at BookBrowse - all generally positive, for example Publishers Weekly concludes, «it's a funny, poignant, slightly gawky debut that aims, like its protagonist, to please — and usually does; while Wally Lamb says, «riders who hop onto the back of Smithy Ide's bike and ride America with him will cherish the journey.

- Rachel Kushner, author of The Flamethrowers «By turns haunting, fanciful, and poignant, Little Nothing is the latest example of why Marisa Silver is one of our finest, most protean storytellers.»

Eric Mack «s work is probably one of the most successful examples of a contemporary practice that's positioned in dialogue with the city's art history while still feeling timely and poignant.

With an enduring «capacity for inspiring genuine delight as well as provoking disquiet,» 3 examples in Western cultures range from the satyrs in Greco - Roman mythology to early medieval church gargoyles to Hieronymus Bosch's The Garden of Earthly Delights (1490 — 1500), Peter Paul Rubens's two versions of The Massacre of the Innocents (c. 1611 — 1612 and c. 1638), William Blake's Nebuchadnezzar (c. 1795 — 1805), and Goya's The Disasters of War (1810 — 1820) and Black Paintings (1820 — 1823), in which strange creatures, disembodied heads, and diabolical tableaux meet masterful artistic skill and poignant existential resonance.

As a testament to their foresight, these works are just as poignant today — only now they are among the most sought after examples of contemporary art in private hands.

One such example of engaging art filmmaker is the influential Valie Export, whose films are absolutely never boring — harnessing direct performance, the language of commodity, Hollywood, poignant dialogue, and narrative to make their point.

In retrospect it was Ted's example that taught me a very poignant lesson - back then I was still too young and naïve to have learned it by that point - that your office could be awash with Clio's and One Show awards, yet your career could still be down the sink - hole.

Of these examples, none are more poignant or haunting than the beds and the mattresses, for they are the plinths on which our most important and profound experiences take place.

Key examples of Dieter Roth's poignant «Kleiderbilder» paintings, made from the artist's own clothes, also will be on view, as will the installation «Grosse Tischruine (Large Table Ruin)», created by Dieter and Björn Roth with Eggert Einarsson between 1978 and 1998.

The Memory Ware Flats are a poignant and concise example of Kelley's ability to blend high with low, irreverent with academic, to achieve an artistic synthesis that is both visually engaging and deeply thought provoking.

(To mention just one example, has anyone in the postwar period made a carved sculpture as exquisite, poignant and sensual as Fabro?)

There is perhaps no more poignant, shocking, and dismal an example of this than the way Al Gore sought to destroy the reputation of the very man he had once claimed as his inspiration: Roger Revelle, the distinguished oceanographer at the University of California in San Diego.