Sentences with phrase «poignant study of»

Unseen in public for almost 45 years, the deeply poignant Study of Red Pope, 1962, 2nd version is to be offered at Christie's London in October

Enriched by flashbacks to the alluringly sad tale of Anyusha's mother, a famous Russian refusenik who died for her beliefs, The Wanting is a poignant study of the costs of extremism, but it is most satisfying as a story of characters enmeshed in their imperfect love for one another and for the heartbreakingly complex world in which that love is wrought.

A poignant study of time, family politics, love and literature, this might be Patchett's best work yet.

But once Sheri Moon Zombie's beleaguered rock DJ comes to the fore, the film reveals its true colors — a poignant study of drug addiction cloaked in horror - movie duds.

This series is a poignant study of morality, and a horrifying glimpse at the destruction caused by drugs and mans ability to fall.

From his candid portraiture and poignant studies of daily life to the abstract beauty of the Freischwimmer series, this diversity confirms why Tillmans is one of the stars of 2017.»

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The sometimes feisty and poignant exchanges offer additional insight into how the two scientists are thinking about this complex and difficult problem, and into some of the points of debate raised by the two studies.

In a study published last year in the Journal of the American Medical Association, researchers described a poignant example of this dynamic after they followed nearly 5,000 low - income families who moved out of public housing and into better neighborhoods.

There's even a poignant character study of a small - town ape.

The sadly little seen Four Friends (aka Georgia's Friends, 1981), though it doesn't feel like an Arthur Penn film, is nonetheless a very tender and poignant character (and era) study reminiscent in tone and style of John Sayles» The Return of the Secaucus Seven (1979) or Lawrence Kasdan's later The Big Chill (1983).

FANNY AND ALEXANDER (1982): Ingmar Bergman's return to childhood and farewell to cinema masterfully balances lightness and dark amid a poignant tapestry of character studies that highlight the transformative power of art and the realization that to live life fully one also must accept death.

Pursuing a life that is off - limits to her, Sarah Jane passes as white and rejects her own mother, making this one of the most poignant and incisive studies of race ever made by a major Hollywood studio.

All credit to Chinese writer / director Chloé Zhao who sets and shoots the main action of this poignant character study on the Pine Ridge Lakota Sioux Reservation.

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.

In this case study, we hear the voices of 8th grade students as they reflect on a particularly poignant social conflict among a group of friends resulting in the ostracism of one of them.

In Shouting Won't Help, her deeply poignant book that is part memoir and part scientific study, she compellingly chronicles her own struggles with admitting and accepting the severity of her hearing loss.

New York — based artist Jim Hodges is known for his singular ability to infuse emotion and narrative into the objects of our daily lives, creating poignant studies on ideas such as temporality, life, and love.

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.

American artist Jim Hodges is known for his singular ability to infuse emotion and narrative into the objects of daily life, creating poignant studies based in temporality, life, and love.

Worley, who focused on Etruscan studies for her master's work, finds that the rich stories of ancient culture can still be quite poignant today.

Small works are not studies, but rather a look into the restrictive process of decision making on a conscientious scale, resulting in poignant, meaningful gestures.