Sentences with phrase «poignant questions as»

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.

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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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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