Sentences with phrase «something poignant»

Yet there's also something poignant about these pictures.

There is something poignant about The Rose's need for a home.

Do you strive for something poignant in order to contrast the weirdness of it all?

As much as I'd like her back, there's something poignant that can come out of the team soldiering on with a Gamora - sized void.

While one can overlook some perhaps inevitable lack of cohesiveness, there is a sense that the diverse, largely unproven lot of filmmakers are throwing anything they can think of on the film's large canvas, hoping that something poignant emerges in some places.

It was Mickey Rooney's last screen appearance but there is something poignant about seeing Robin Williams, especially in the context of the series finale.

He finds, in that most mocked and ridiculed of self - made movie stars and auteurs something poignant and funny and weirdly enduring about our need to understand and be understood as well as adored and admired.

-- and there's something poignant, and almost revivifying, about his gumption.

There's something poignant and revealing about the salt - of - the - earth fisherman seeing the car in the water — his attention brought to the submerged vehicle by his son's surprised shout of «Dad!»

There is always something poignant about one robot taking a picture of another robot, unimaginably separated from the human beings that created them.

There was something poignant, too, in watching these foot soldiers in the Obama - Pelosi army being mowed down in droves, in many cases having been denied funding from national party headquarters with which to make a fight.

Still, there is something poignant about the shifting of eras, and a small event — the farewell of the last evangelistic missionaries in north India — may signal the shape of a much larger history.

Still, there is something poignant about the shifting of eras, and a small event may signal the shape of a much larger history.

In putting together a sidebar for that story about the most important FPS games in the history of the medium, I noticed a fascinating trend that seems to say something poignant about the times we're living in: brand has become a stronger selling feature than the artist, at least in games.

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But the phrase at the end is so poignant: «If you're good at something, never do it for free.»

But it is something more: something immediate and poignant in the embattled «little flocks» of the first century, known again in our day by millions in shattered and cut - off lives in cells, rubble, behind wire, and behind curtains.

An alternative understanding that is more faithful to the biblical witness overall is that this is one poignant instance of God's capacity to turn what humans intend for evil into something empowering.

The «every other 11 yr old has snapchat» is also very poignant at the moment, how young is too young is something we hear parents talking about a lot!

Equally, there is something more poignant and emotive about hearing those words, as opposed to reading them.

There are those who consider Assemblyman Kevin Cahill something of a windbag — he can go on and on and on — but at times he can be succinct, even poignant and funny.

I couldn't think of a more perfect, poignant, succinct way to say something so profound.

And there was something so poignant and beautiful about that thought.

What reads like a standard romantic comedy premise is transformed, in the hands of master filmmaker Denis, into something altogether deeper, more poignant, and perceptive about the profound mysteries of love.

The simple inclusiveness of that idea and the feeling behind it — the sense that this nation, with all of its troubles, is something we're all in together — may sound especially poignant now, and even a bit quaint.

What makes The Great Gatsby such a great story is that it's a simple plot that is both poignant and dramatic, and these elements combine perfectly to create something quite wonderful.

It's at its best when it marries its poignant story to its platforming, and at its weakest when it's about moving boxes, but it rarely goes very long without showing us something worth playing.

Adam McKay has upped his social commentary game from Anchorman into something even more aggressively poignant, this time something that needs to be seen to be believed.

The Angulos being the Angulos, there are poignant and funny moments here and there in these scenes — one of the boys giddily fantasizing about the fact that a bit of the money from his ticket purchase might go to Russell, Mark Wahlberg, and Christian Bale, for example, which embodies the same recapturing of childlike awe toward industrial pop that figures in The Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt or, for that matter, a great deal of faux - naïve, ga - ga pop journalism, and which I suspect has something to do with The Wolfpack's crossover appeal.

Best of all was the chemistry between its two leads, Jesse Eisenberg and Kristen Stewart, who were both still young at the time, but confidently mixed goofy humor with something more poignant.

In its most poignant moments, Tully addresses something common among those of us who've found ourselves on the other side of young adulthood.

But Nichols, gifted with an eye for suggestive empty spaces and landscapes, creates something ambiguous, poignant, and ultimately transcendent, risking much on performances, unspoken internal conflicts, and an ending that seems to reveal too much, but not really.

Written and directed by Stacie Passon in an auspicious directing debut effort, and produced by Rose Troche, CONCUSSION is a poignant sexual examination of Abby (Robin Weigert in a star making breakout turn), a forty something married wealthy, lesbian housewife who, after suffering a blow to the head from getting smacked by her son's baseball — walks around every corner of her suburban life to confront a mounting desire for something else.

Scenes that are already weighted with portentousness because of what we know will happen occasionally dip over into heavy - handedness when something particularly poignant or pointed occurs, leading to a sense of their contrivance — always a thorny issue in a «based on a true story.»

And the clearly expertly - crafted film looks to be, of course, incredibly affecting and poignant on a number of fronts, including the very act of telling a WWII tale that includes something as unexpected as a zoo.

Luckily RADIANCE turned out to have something rather poignant to say, the admittedly sincere if less than artful forms of expression notwithstanding.

Written and directed by Stacie Passon (making her debut), the film is a poignant sexual examination of Abby (Robin Weigert), a forty - something, married, wealthy, lesbian homemaker who, after suffering a blow to the head from getting smacked by her son's baseball — walks around every corner of her suburban life to confront a mounting desire for something else.

It would be quite something for me to suggest this could be his best performance, and yet it well could be; it's difficult to imagine not just anyone being better in the role, but anyone else filling it at all, and Gleeson manages the impossible - being poignant from the off.

He writes, «Stick in something, anything that involves a death... [because it] will resonate and make that «All Is Lost» moment all the more poignant.»»

While not to be confused with the 1987 Dudley Moore body - swap comedy, Hirokazu Kore - eda's latest drama also undertakes its own kind of identity experiment, one that organically grows into something altogether more poignant.

But where «Supermensch» moves from your standard doc chronicling wild eyed debauchery of yesteryear into something more poignant is when it zeroes in on Shep's personal life.

Something that's kind of poignant to me is the movie,

Something that's kind of poignant to me is the movie, The Post.

The film feels it was made specifically for Greek viewers, as all of the allegorical elements feel poignant and intentional, but not knowing anything about contemporary Greek society leaves you with the feeling of «this means something; I just don't know what it is.»

The result is an achingly poignant and startlingly immediate portrait of a man adapting to life with a disability, struggling to maintain his own academic work and intimate relationships while his experience of the world and existential, spiritual beliefs evolve into something completely new.

There can be something deeply poignant about this inability on the part of Anderson's protagonists to stop running.

American Graffiti is a treat to watch, seeing all these young actors and film - makers working on something so funny, effortless and yet truly poignant.

Fleck and Boden turn that point of panic into something resembling penance — a poignant challenge of both characters» convictions that realistically has no definite right answer.

Yet even amidst the playful and poignant, as also manifested in slight but suitable supporting characters (voiced by the recognisable likes of Helen Mirren, Alfred Molina, Joel Murray and scene - stealer Charlie Day), Monsters University seems more an excuse to give Mike and Sulley something to do rather than giving audiences a reason to care.

Mountains May Depart has one of the greatest, most poignant film endings of the new century, and Ash Is Purest White at times feels capable of something even more melancholy and moving.

The 12C, however, will always be remembered as the first car of the McLaren Automotive era and there's something quite significant — almost poignant — about that.