Sentences with phrase «poignant piece»

Your home is warm, inviting and beautiful, but the most poignant piece of your post today is your honor of the King.

This is probably the most poignant piece that has ever appeared in REM.

Dr. James Smith who heads the Open Data Institute (co-founded by Sir Tim Berners - Lee and Sir Nigel Shadbolt) Labs programme and the software team which delivers software projects across the organisation has written a poignant piece providing some interesting and fresh opinions on the Blockchain.

We are excited to be adding this beautiful and poignant piece of advertising to our campaign to address plastics in the environment.»

For a really great image of how environmental changes are already affecting people, in fact destroying an entire culture — and no, not in some low - slung Pacific Island — The New York Times has a poignant piece about how the Kamayurá people in Brazil are struggling today with deforestation and climate change making their way of life less and less tenable: Forest Homelands Now Surrounded by Ranches The Kamayurá people live in the middle of the Xingu National Park — which was once deep in the Amazon but is now surrounded by ranches — and live by hunting, fishing and some agriculture.

And the artist, often associated with his antic performances, is getting credit for his depth lately: the Financial Times called his work in the Whitney's «Blues for Smoke» exhibition the «most poignant piece in the show.»

Triple Action / Tear Production / Hydrophobic Effect (2017) by Ala Dehghan is an extraordinarily poignant piece — its eyes literal slits torn out of the black mesh fabric, its spray painted pupils dripping and gazing unblinking into eternity, and the strips of mylar running down like crocodile tears reflect the onlooker, distorted and mutated.

Honoring my daughter's «last» request in the age of digital media (Washington Post)-- Incredibly poignant piece on the role of digital in our lives

A most poignant piece of programming will be the late Abbas Kiarostami's 24 Frames, an experimental film completed before his death in July 2016 and based on his photography.

The system could even analyse its own creations to choose the most poignant piece.

Quick Hits: The Times» David Gonzalez, himself a graduate of St. Martin of Tours School in Crotona, offers this poignant piece on the school's closing and emotional last day of classes, which was last Wednesday.

I don't normally write about controversial topics here but my mom wrote this poignant piece and I couldn't help but share it with all of you.

Perhaps not a concept album so much as a journey through the heart of the seventies, Daft Punk's best work so far opens with the terrifically uplifting «Give Life Back to Music», before dissolving into quieter, more poignant pieces such as «Game of Love» and «Within».

But In Persuasion Nation also includes more personal and poignant pieces that reveal a new kind of emotional conviction in Saunders's writing.

Her new work begins with the raw energy of long haphazard black slashes of paint, reflections of gold leaf, foreboding faces with gnarled and jagged teeth smiling through chards of broken mirror... A three - month residency in Chashama's Harlem studio has set the artist on a cataclysmic outpour of large politically poignant pieces.

In fact, one of the most poignant pieces in the show is the three - part artist's book and memoir created after Iannone's first encounter with Dieter Roth.

Barbara Hepworth's former studio assistant David Lewis shares his very personal memories one of the sculptor's most poignant pieces

A Race to a Politicized Conflict Emily Wax highlighted some of the problems with well - intentioned but misled activists in a 2006 Washington Post article, one of the most poignant pieces explaining the misconceptions about the Darfur conflict:

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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.

This was a poignant picture of how God can even use our brokenness to help us put the pieces of our lives back together again.

Local novelist A.J. Sidransky penned a poignant and personal piece about his own relatives that were deported to Auschwitz...

The piece includes community leaders Stafford Scott and Martin Sylvester Brown, police constables on duty that night and a former resident of the Carpet - Right building, the burned remains now providing a highly poignant reminder of the events.

More compelling than the general run of fictional drama, and often funnier, sadder and more poignant, Cops at first seems to be an unassembled jigsaw puzzle... This is a documentary being pieced together before our eyes.

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.

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.

More crucially, Sherlock's astringent personality and Watson's poignant longing for respect never really gel alongside simple, one - joke characters like Mankini (Julio Bonet), a butt - wiggling gnome who wears a Borat - style one - piece swimsuit.

The struggle within the film is the same as the struggle without, then, as Crick tries to determine whether or not Eiffel's calm (and, as it happens, excellently - written) exposition will result in his poignant death or — good for him, bad for us — in his resurrection as a bland, non-descript leading man in another piece too frightened to allow itself the most appropriate ending.

«I had just come off the back of quite a few big genre pieces and this was a poignant, beautiful script.»

«Director Craig Gillespie, and writer Steven Rogers and the incredible ensemble have created an uncompromising, poignant and instantly classic piece of American cinema,» commented Neon Founder and CEO Tom Quinn.

Soon, these married hipsters open up Josh and Cornelia's eyes to their generational perspective of New York, cueing a series of hysterical set pieces and poignant self - discoveries.

This magnificent ensemble piece — a movie that Woody Allen, Robert Altman, and Mike Leigh, to name three, are always trying to remake — is as fresh, funny, and poignant as it ever was, and even more mysterious.

Happily, it ends on a strong note, as Clouds is a typically smart, incisive, beautifully crafted analytical exercise from Olivier Assayas, serving as a companion piece to both Irma Vep (with which it shares a knowing film - world milieu) and to Summer Hours (in its poignant juxtaposition of generations).

As pieces of the puzzle gradually fit together, the poignant secret of his life comes to light: a wonderful story of love, which inspired his genius and his music.

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.

Being Flynn does pick up the pieces in the final act to deliver a poignant tale of survival for both father and son and ends on a surprisingly positive note with both men coming to an amicable relationship.

A poignant period piece about a pair of practically - saintly role models well - deserving of their iconic status in the annals of American jurisprudence.

It's a rousing introduction to Gosling's enigmatic anti-hero and a brilliant piece of camerawork that's mirrored to poignant effect in the film's cathartic third act.

Though working in TV for much of her post -»70s career, she did manage to direct this alluring and extremely poignant mood piece from a script by Paul Schrader and his brother Leonard.

It includes a short piece about going back to New York City by R. and Aline Crumb, as well as a brief episode by their daughter, Sophie Crumb, and an especially poignant excerpt from Alison Bechdel's illustrated memoir Fun Home.

A poignant collection of original pieces selected from more than eight hundred contributions, Ophelia Speaks culls writings from the hearts of girls nationwide, of various races, religions, and socioeconomic backgrounds.

Neelie Kroes for The Guardian UK posted a poignant and interesting opinion piece last week that asks some of the questions that rest in the back of most digital readers» minds.

Yours are poignant if disturbing, particularly that first piece, which creates a vivid mental image.

What begins as a sworn oath becomes a movement that tests both sides and could change the course of history.Aristophanes's irresistibly bawdy play is both a timeless antiwar set piece and an insightful comedy that is as fresh and poignant as ever.AmazonClassics brings you timeless works from the masters of storytelling.

And in «What the Sparrows Told Me,» a poignant opinion piece published recently in the New York Times, birds are both the inspiration and the teachers.

This piece is perfectly poignant, as beautiful as any...

However, I was struck with contemplation at some of the more poignant quotes throughout the piece.

Those who take their time uncovering the game's sordid backstory by piecing together the clues scattered throughout the mansion will experience a poignant and oftentimes uncomfortable journey that grabs you by the throat and doesn't let go until the credits roll.

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.

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.

The latter are the most ambitious in their hybridity of masculine formalism and feminine connotation and contingency — works such as «Anatomy of a Kimono» (1976), a massive multipaneled piece in the collection of Bruno Bischofberger, and «Wonderland» (1983), a large work in the collection of the Smithsonian American Art Museum and one of the finest and most poignant of Schapiro's homages to domesticity and traditional needlework crafts.