Sentences with phrase «poignant examples for»

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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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.