Sentences with phrase «poignant moment in»

What is captured is a poignant moment in history.

Currency is a piece with international roots that is presented at a poignant moment in the national dialogue about the weight of economy and labor.

Though primarily focused on the week in July 1967 when Detroit erupted in extreme civil disturbances matched by extensive police overreach, the arc of the film traverses the ways of life before, during and after this poignant moment in American history.

The game and individual performances has been dissected to bits so I am not going into that in any detail, but I do want to highlight what I think was a very poignant moment in the match which may point to a deeper dressing room problem.

In a poignant moment in the film, Liddell tells his sister that he has decided to return to China to serve as a missionary.

During particularly poignant moments in the climax of certain arias you may notice the subtitles go blank for a moment so that you can put all of your focus and attention on the truly awe - inspiring voices in their company.

Baldwin's relationship with Medgar Evers, Mississippi field secretary for the NAACP, provides some of the more poignant moments in I Am Not Your Negro.

Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri Director - writer Martin McDonough liberally mixes the profane with violence, comedy, humanity and poignant moments in «Three Billboards,» which starts out as possibly an indictment of police corruption but veers off in several different directions in its journey.

As the painting moves through each owner's hands, what was long hidden quietly surfaces, illuminating poignant moments in multiple lives.

15 November, 2011 - The Power Plant opens two major exhibitions: a new project by renowned Canadian artist Stan Douglas; and an international group exhibition of work by younger artists — both reflect on poignant moments in cultural history and their enduring effects on our contemporary experience.

Not exact matches

Beck sees the music videos and animations as steppingstones — proof that Riot can create exciting action sequences, emotionally poignant moments, and any other building blocks needed to tell immersive stories in any medium.

Possibly I would be acquitted, and possibly not, but you would certainly have a last moment of poignant regret in which you wondered whether the enjoyment you got from shaming a stranger was actually worth it in the end?

In what must have been a poignant moment, Jesus turns to His 12 closest friends and says, «you do not want to leave me too, do you?»

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.»

In one of the most poignant moments of the season, Sylvia asks her why she did it.

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.

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.

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.

This poignant moment was captured by the ALMA radio telescope array in Chile last October.

I had a very poignant «seasons of my life» moment (a la Fleetwood Mac's «Landslide») being back in this place where my husband and I dated, returned as a married couple, and then visited again with our son and my in - laws.

Belleville, NJ About Blog As a family photographer, specializing in maternity, newborn and child portraits, Melissa has the outstanding ability to capture meaningful and poignant images of priceless moments.

Poignant character moments and some impressive use of pop music make Under Pressure a better episode than Tangled Up In Blue, but still nowhere near the lofty heights that we know Telltale is capable of.

Weaving together a wealth of archival footage from the most glamorous moments in fashion history with André's poignant reflections on his life and career, The Gospel According to André is a cinematic monument to one of the most unique figures of 20th Century American culture.

But the film's best scenes — including a haunting moment on the beach and a weirdly poignant encounter with a disfigured potential victim — also suggest a dawning moral awareness in the femme fatale.

Each and every flashback, whether happy or sad, reveals the same poignant thing: they were a thousand times more relaxed in the past than now, at this longed - for moment of supposed abandon.

Shot in one unbroken close - up on Hathaway's hopeless face, it's an unforgettably plaintive and poignant moment that will shatter your heart into a million pieces and force the Academy to seal their votes tomorrow.

They speak about the 230 page synopsis that Darwin has given the scientific community and in a poignant moment, Thomas Huxley points out that Darwin does not understand the full implications of his theories.

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.

The most embarrassing moment in the film comes when Jackman performs «Bring Him Home,» arguably the show's most poignant song.

Friends with Kids is a daring and poignant ensemble comedy about a close - knit circle of friends at that moment in life when children arrive and everything changes.

With the 3D walk itself being worth price of admission, more so in vertigo - inducing IMAX, and poignant final moments that especially resonated with the New York Film Fest crowd, Zemeckis has crafted a spectacle to be sure even if the rest of the film will likely not stand the same test of time that the 2008 documentary has.

In production at the same time had been a similar genre piece, If I Stay, but this one is too encumbered by its own artifice to hit us with the sort of poignant, heartfelt moments that director R.J. Cutler (The World According to Dick Cheney, The Ordained), from a script by Shauna Cross (What to Expect When You're Expecting, Whip It), is so desperate to deliver wholesale.

It is a phantasmagoria of extraordinary action sequences and beautifully poignant moments that nevertheless leaves one cold in the end.

In fact, there is a moment that's meant to be particularly poignant and emotional, with big sweeping music to mark its significance, but it's followed shortly by a change of scenery and a joke that undercuts any emotional response the movie was aiming to achieve.

Unless you count a trip to an art installation of a rain room, which cues a faux - poignant moment — complete with dramatic song — as each patient steps in to get... baptized?

Much more than just «the iPhone movie,» Sean Baker's in - the - moment look at life «on the block» is brash and daring, funny, subversive, insightful and poignant.

In its most poignant moments, Tully addresses something common among those of us who've found ourselves on the other side of young adulthood.

Smith is also a more seasoned director and editor, and even manages to put in a few poignant moments of drama within the framework of this otherwise ribald comedy.

He writes, «Stick in something, anything that involves a death... [because it] will resonate and make that «All Is Lost» moment all the more poignant.»»

s an elegiac quality in the pensive moments between their prankish art installations, when Varda contemplates the world slipping away from her, using the camera to visualize her deteriorating sight in one particularly poignant moment.

There's an elegiac quality in the pensive moments between their prankish art installations, when Varda contemplates the world slipping away from her, using the camera to visualize her deteriorating sight in one particularly poignant moment.

And Theron allows that old joy to flood back in one poignant moment, when she finally returns to the Vuvalini, with Immortan Joe's wives in tow.

I Used to Live Here, like all great neo-realist films, bears a very poignant, deliberate message that culminates in the closing moments, and is crucially told depicted via the more ardent elements of filmmaking, i.e. — script - structure, editing, framing and acting.

Zachary Quinto's Spock fares better, if only because Quinto infuses neutral lines with a certain melancholy, but he too does not get to build on the seismic events that affected Spock in the first film, his development limited to one poignant discussion of how he has reacted to his home world's destruction and one meaningless inversion of the most iconic image of the Star Trek films that takes a piercing moment and reduces it to farce.

It's pointed and poignant, especially when it comes to Doc, who's played by Carell as a man who seems lost in every moment.

A poignant moment comes when Sam explains with the use of a toilet roll, that the 150 dots present on each square of the roll represent 100» 000 years in the history of the Earth.

There is as much silence as there is speech in the trailer; a poignant moment as Anne sits at the piano, a beautiful piece of music plays in the background, yet, as the camera pans over to Georges, he reaches behind him and switches the music off; Anne is no longer capable of playing the piano as she once could.

The movie's problems are exacerbated by a sporadic emphasis on elements that couldn't possibly be less interesting (ie Uncle Andy's less - than - savory extracurricular activities), and although the narrative has been peppered with a handful of undeniably poignant moments (ie Arnold finally breaks down over his unwitting role in his brother's death), The Stone Boy's inability to hold the viewer's interest on a consistent basis ultimately negates its positive attributes.

(A particularly poignant moment is when Radner mentions in her journal that, while sick with cancer, she'd watch herself on SNL reruns to cheer herself up.)