Sentences with phrase «poignant question of»

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?

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.

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

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?»

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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.

«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.»

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.