Sentences with phrase «poignant for»

Your last paragraph is so poignant for me.

I wanted to ground all the white with a bold vinyl saying and «be brave» seemed simple and poignant for my little boys growing up in this scary world.

Concerns regarding succession are especially poignant for small firms and solo practitioners who often suffer from a lack of resources to address succession issues but who are the most at risk for negative consequences due to an unexpected illness or other triggering circumstance.

Lee's death is a loss for the world and poignant for me personally — finding in him a soul mate after 35 years, only to have him leave so soon.

Although like a living tree in form, the sculptures are obviously pieced and joined together, being all the more poignant for their lack of life.

But Wyn Evans claims that what's poignant for him is the show's very subtle reference to the cannons that Broodthaers» aimed out onto the street, pointing at the Cabinet War Rooms, Downing Street and the Houses of Parliament.

That is particularly poignant for me: MY EVIL PLAN IS A RAT RACE!

«It's very poignant for this moment when everyone's attention span is so short and everyone is scrolling through images and texts and just skimming the surface of things.»

Often inspired by the physicality of the human body, her works are poignant for their exploration of intimate domestic spaces and household objects.

That piece is poignant for me as an artist because it inspires me to be unafraid to push and pull the audience around.

Such a unique combination is particularly poignant for several reasons.

That must have been poignant for her as a very young artist, to have that all laid out.

«This presentation is poignant for its rather accelerated relationship between curator, artist and space.

«The SS Joie de Vivre is therefore very poignant for us, launching it now, and recognising that international, inbound travel to France is still recovering.»

It is particularly poignant for a city such as Mumbai.

This is a deeply compassionate story made more poignant for its unadorned simplicity, with an ending that lands with the emotional force of a Horace Hopper one - two punch.»

Inclusion in this selection may be especially poignant for Rysa Walker, as this year's young adult ABNA winner who eventually won the grand prize as well.

Very poignant for me right now and so important to look after yourself too.

It is vastly banal and trivial, and yet all the more poignant for it; reading Knausgaard reminds me of seeing song lyrics on a page — they tend to seem terrifically underwhelming and trite, but some special magic happens when they are put to music.

There have been similar plague - based apocalyptic films both before and after — 1971's «The Omega Man» and its 2007 offshoot «I Am Legend», for instance — but this one is especially poignant for British viewers, if only because the unfolding events are so much closer to home.

The opening scene in God's Pocket, a funeral that follows an untimely death, is all the more poignant for one of the chief mourners being played by Philip Seymour Hoffman.

And though we know how it all works out, it seems more poignant for our knowing how everything works out.

Surprisingly poignant for a movie that turns America's pastime into a card - counting experiment — and filled with crackling dialogue from Oscar winners Aaron Sorkin and Steve Zaillian — Moneyball focuses on the essential issue of baseball and of life: How do you measure human value?

Hell indeed, and the film is more poignant for it.)

And the deaths of actors like Shepard, Della Reese, Jerry Lewis, Martin Landau, Harry Dean Stanton, and so many others, all of them legends, were especially poignant for me in a year that was also rife with fresh discoveries, the faces I hope to see carrying Hollywood's legacy forward.

These words are not only beautiful, they can be particularly poignant for christian singles on a journey in search of love.

These words are not only beautiful, they can be particularly poignant for Christian singles on a journey in search of love.

«fear of taking a chance only controls the unprepared mind» — so well said and especially poignant for me.

Now it's one of those funny stories we laugh about, and the fact that my dad is tied into it made it more poignant for me.

«The third day of the walk will be especially poignant for our Accolade Wines colleagues in Stellenbosch, because the journey begins at the Kayamandi Primary School.

Whilst the tragedy of the Holocaust is especially poignant for Jewish people, who believe themselves to be the chosen people of God, it is an agonizing concern for all believers in God.

The tragic moment was too poignant for comment; the author relates simply, «The king was greatly moved; and he went up to the chamber over the gate, and wept.

This belief is particularly poignant for the person with AIDS who obviously finds much in the surrounding culture to reinforce this incriminating interpretation.

It was poignant for Brown for two reasons.

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All along, he preached an idea that seems only more poignant today, in the wake of the 2008 financial crisis: that capital can be corralled to do society good while it does well for itself.

In putting together a sidebar for that story about the most important FPS games in the history of the medium, I noticed a fascinating trend that seems to say something poignant about the times we're living in: brand has become a stronger selling feature than the artist, at least in games.

While I'm sure there are fascinating aspects to how war and even pornography affect education, the most poignant — I think — is food technology, given its role in paving the way for countries to become prosperous.

Perspiration — The most poignant quote for this attribute comes from Thomas Edison, «Genius is one per cent inspiration and ninety - nine per cent perspiration.»

But above all others shines a now - viral comment from the Financial Times Facebook page for its poignant description of this failed exercise in political and democratic spirit.

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 next wave of the gun control - school safety movement continued Saturday with a congresswoman's «Town Hall for Our Lives» session featuring poignant remarks...

We all know and love YouTube for its enormous collection of videos ranging from hilarious to poignant to downright astounding.

Morin teaches you how to embrace a happier outlook and arms you to emotionally deal with life's inevitable hardships, setbacks, and heartbreaks — sharing for the first time her own poignant story of tragedy, and how she summoned the mental strength to move on.

With hilarious and poignant storytelling, Jay teaches the 4 things that must be true for a differentiator to be a Talk Trigger; the 5 types of word - of - mouth generating Talk Triggers; and the 6 - step process for creating Talk Triggers in any organization.

The album as a whole stands on its own as one of the best releases of the year for its yearning, deeply spiritual lyrics and its poignant musical flourishes.

But the phrase at the end is so poignant: «If you're good at something, never do it for free.»

Having been close to a number of people who've died before me including my father, I agree that an explanation for the most poignant emotions we've expressed and been involved in is where we look for meaning at life's end.

The point about not being able to hold up a black as a role model for white children is, we think, particularly poignant.

And it will be for me quite a poignant moment going there [to Whitehall] with the other church leaders and the Queen and all the others to think of him.

This piece of writing was so beautiful, tearful, sad, poignant and yet happy in some very unusual way because it made the dying happy to remember the love they had for others, mostly family.