Sentences with phrase «poignant moments for»

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The National Apology was a poignant moment for this nation.

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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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

A late appearance by series stars Soul and Paul Michael Glaser highlights the picture's central failing — at that moment, Starsky & Hutch is propelled into the stratum of the meta - surreal: not funny, not poignant, just disturbingly reliant on a conversance and affection for a television show that most of us remember as being about a red Grand Turino if we remember it at all.

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.

Sometimes, that makes for poignant moments.

It's a propaganda film to a certain extent, but not without interest, as there are enough poignant moments to make the endeavor worthwhile for those with an ear for modern political thinking, or lack thereof.

His admiration for Kennedy is very evident too, and the late senator's speeches about peace and shunning violence are the most poignant and engaging moments of this film.

He is best known for 12 Years a Slave, which might be how he was brought on board here, via Brad Pitt and Plan B. Either way, you hardly notice the score until the beautiful piano riff that marks the story's poignant moments, which you can hear around the 13 minute mark.

For every poignant moment, there is another pointless montage set to a contemporary pop song, or a dance - off, or some other silliness.

It seems that as of late there've been a ton of terribly poignant moments that are beyond sniffle - inducing and go straight for the waterworks.

(Besides, it's a poignant moment, as the two most isolated figures in the house beg for mutual compassion.)

In my opinion, Allen does flub the very end seconds of the film somewhat, stealing away what could have been a very poignant thematic capper, but the venture is entertaining enough along the way that questioning the direction that the film goes in its final moments is worth overlooking for the overall recommendation.

Even if the plotting of the relationships never quite deviates from the cliché, the actors still sell their characters and situations, whether it be for laughs or a moment of poignant reflection, and the end result is a movie that delivers just enough choice, novel situations and funny moments to get a solid recommendation.

It's the kind of movie that filmmaker Terry GIlliam has spent a good deal of his career making, but the scope of Marc Forster's (Monster's Ball) direction never leaps as stridently into fantasy, except for a few poignant moments.

For Melcon, the most poignant moment of the growing season» occurred during a business trip to Europe.

Hectically breakneck, casually absurd, or touchingly poignant, these moments recognize car interiors as a confined setting ideally suited for humor, suspense, philosophical debate, action, and symbolism about its passengers advancing to or retreating from stations in life.

Billed as the country's largest charitable pet fashion show, now in its 14th year, the event's theme was Global Couture for Animal Rescue with fashions that spanned from Russia to Paraguay strutting down the runway (and a poignant moment when three generations of Armenian women appeared in handmade outfits commemorating the Armenian genocide of 1915).

It's a shame that for a series known for its poignant and affecting story moments that Lightning Returns fails to provide an interesting narrative, especially when there are a few clever gameplay ideas.

Yes, it was an enjoyable playthrough, and some of the moments, particularly the reveal of Father, felt poignant and memorable, but for the most part it followed a familiar path.

So today, being a day that for me is a lot about finding my own purpose, I've decided that it would be a poignant moment to make these available for people to own.

The addition of a piece by such a distinguished artist as Hito Steyerl marks an important moment in this journey and has enabled Glasgow Museums to secure a brilliant and poignant work for the city and Scotland.

«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.»

For this student, the moment is poignant.

Standing homework for my couples is to revisit a particularly poignant moment of connection that occurred in the session.

Thank you for sharing these poignant moments of your experience with us «imaginary» friends.