Sentences with phrase «poignant question»

The most poignant question posed: «Isn't leftist theater really «in» right now?»

She asks a poignant question: «To whom do I owe the symbols of my survival?»

The popular blog Fidose of Reality asked a poignant question in a story called Dog Survives Rare Heart Surgery.

not only asks a poignant question, but chronicles the best of filmmaking today and proposes where cinema will go, and should go, in the future.

Bruce Willis isn't Rambo or John Wayne, and even rejects the notion when presented in q poignant question by Hans himself.

The most poignant question from yesterday was from Jennifer, who asked regarding the topic of fear:

Finally, we ask ourselves possibly the most poignant question of all — Should not the community have a say - so in the definition of terms of mental health?

It was a profound insight; for man's most poignant question throughout all ages has been «What is my place in a world of immense and seemingly callous might?»

In John's Gospel Jesus turns to his disciples and asks that poignant question: «You do not want to leave too, do you?»

As a result, Pharaoh finally tells Moses that he and the Israelites can leave Egypt, but in so doing, he asks the most poignant question of the movie.

The poignant question, then, is whether technology is driving these wedges between people, or is it simply bringing us closer to our truer natures?

I encourage you to take April, stress awareness month, to examine your stress levels, ask yourself some poignant questions about your health, and make the changes necessary to live a happier, healthier, more energetic life.

Despite its occasional over indulgence, it ultimately poses poignant questions - when is it time to let go and move on?

As Satrapi adjusts to a new culture and living away from her parents, she faces poignant questions about her identity.

The book — which curators planned to make copies of via Xerox — posed poignant questions over the display, ownership and distribution of art while marking a major moment in the Conceptual Art movement.

The conversation at the ensuing cocktail reception at the Neon Museum, also in the Soho complex, involved collective efforts to respond to such poignant questions as how snakes copulate and, subsequently, why «love juices» are so little appreciated.

«Kapwani's rigorous research and imaginative approach will confront audiences with the raw materials and elemental structures of power», explains Artist Award curator Adrienne Edwards, «and ask poignant questions about our built environment and human histories of control.»

As Americans, we must ask ourselves the following poignant questions.

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Of all the questions in scripture, the single most poignant one may be recorded in the sixth chapter of the Gospel of John.

On the contentious question of what good news the church has for gay Christians, few books are more sober, plodding, or poignant than Oliver O'Donovan's Church in Crisis.

After her suicide attempt when she was 28, Jamison asked the poignant and familiar question, «Where had God been?»

And one of the most poignant differences I noticed was in the culture of testimonies as it was practiced in these churches: Several conversations opened with the question, «So, how did you come to Christ?»

You've ministered to me and nutured to me in a way that is particularly liberating, and poignant as I ask questions of my own ministry.

Simply left with the poignant outline of the missing poppy, hung from floor to ceiling and overhead, Parker's exceptionally well - received, emotionally charged tribute to fallen soldiers asks a literal question: where have all the flowers gone?

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.

Recently my husband brought up this poignant concern, and it left me with many unanswered questions.

A remarkable tour de force, simultaneously droll and poignant, burlesque and romantic, tracking the eternal (and nagging) question of good and evil through a pair of comedic bumbling cops and a couple of little kids in love, this immersion into the racist fantasies lurking in an un-bucolic landscape of meadows and manure could do for French television (and Dumont) what Twin Peaks did for the US (and Lynch): coining a new language, tapping into liberating creative forces.

With outrageous humour that bubbles to the surface, director Michael Showalter's film is most importantly, not without hard - hitting questions, dabbling with issues of cultural identity within a poignant illustration of a couple's relationship.

The opposite holds true for this philosophical, poignant and riotously funny look at the low - budget film's resurgence and a timeless question: What is the standard of «bad,» exactly?

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.

Poignant, maybe, is the observation that the audience for Knoxville's «Jackass» is the very audience that needs a little sensitivity training — better would be the question of whether the picture succeeds in deflating bigotry or, more likely, giving the jerk - offs of the world a cluster of disabled people to laugh at.

Yet the characters» lives are utterly defined and guided by science fiction elements (of the sort that could soon be science reality), and the kind of ethical questions implicitly explored are those of classic science fiction going back to Asimov and Wells, here told with a poignant humanism and thoughtfulness rarely found on the screen today.

Bittersweet and lighthearted, fantastical and mundane, it's as compelling as any the character studies of Takahata, and the story's biggest question becomes irrelevant long before the Wolf's final, most poignant words.

Read more >> A Wedding in Haiti by Julia Alvarez Algonquin, $ 22.95, 304 pages In her humorous and poignant memoir of a wedding and an earthquake in the Dominican Republic, novelist Julia Alvarez (How the García Girls Lost Their Accents) attempts to answer this question as she tells the tale of a young worker on her coffee plantation, Piti, and his efforts to make a life by traveling from his home in Haiti to work in the neighboring country.

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.

«Riveting and poignant, Emily's latest novel paints an impossible dilemma that will make readers ponder hard questions about loyalty and love.

I'm loathe to call Dear Esther a game, not least because it doesn't seem at all trivial, and its interactivity is in question, but also it isn't fun, instead moving onto something far more poignant.

Others are anonymous, but no less poignant and thoughtful in their questions and responses.

This is, after all, a world in which artists continue to give form to the bigger questions — to life and death — and to create objects that are as beautiful as they are poignant.

This poignant intervention wrestles with questions about physical beauty and its destruction, together with the dynamics of seeing and being seen.

Exploring how major art trends have reflected the reality increasingly appearing as media construct, the show presents a range of works from Alex Katz's striking realism and Eric Fischl's psychologically charged studies of a confused middle class to Cindy Sherman «s poignant self - portraits to Vanessa Beecroft's performances that question body ideals.

These artists involved in Franklin Furnace — then and now — continue to question the capacity of art, carving truthful, poignant responses to the political, social and artistic challenges of our environment.

Works on paper, large scale bronze and marble works, and the delicate replication of a single grain of sand are included in a context that brings a poignant resonance to Penone's interest in questions of nature and identity in todays industrialised society.

Although these images enter a line of questioning that came to define much artistic output from New York during the late 1970's — they are uniquely tinged with a poignant sense of nostalgia, but with an equally disquieting sense of dislocation.

Dan Graham's work questions the relationship between architecture and its psychological effects on us and remains as poignant today as it did in the 1970's when Graham first explored issues such as «the performative», exhibitionism, reflection, mirroring and the mundane.

Malka Nedivi's «Lady Standing» evokes Modigliani while being intensely original, a slender figure with a poignant, questioning gaze.

Through questions and answers that are pointed, poignant, humorous, painful, and revealing, these men begin to redefine black male identity in America.

Hirst thus raises the question of whether his chosen imagery should be considered to represent that which is beautiful, poignant and uplifting or perhaps merely acts as a reminder that all existence, while it may be beautiful, is ultimately fleeting and fragile.

However, a case is often won or lost on the initial presentation to the appellate judge and counsel's focus on providing succinct and poignant answers to the most difficult questions.

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