Sentences with phrase «with poignant reminders»

Sombre memories of its troubled past are marked with poignant reminders, such as the Shoes on the Danube memorial.

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The work of the Tertio Millennio Seminar is to equip our participants with the rich resources of Catholic social teaching, and to do so in a setting that underscores both how high the stakes are (one would be hard pressed to find anywhere a more poignant reminder of man's horrific capacity to abuse himself than in the rubble of the Birkenau crematoria, which our students visit), and, more importantly, the realistic hope that mankind can, and must, do much better.

The remarkable, wonderful story of Curtis Dagley and the Poles who remembered him with gratitude seventy years later is a poignant reminder of real American greatness.

With its array of historic buildings, the crumbling landscape of downtown Jamestown offers poignant reminders of a small city that was once a jewel of the Northeast.

And while both are laced with product placement for Coca - Cola, this acts as a poignant reminder of the varying quality of life for those living in the modern age.

Fiercely affecting, the film is a poignant and thought provoking reminder of the artifice inherent in being forced to live one's life in public and also a reminder that there was a time that Jackie, one of the most famous women in the world, had to assume the role for the nation of grieving widow and do it with dignity, poise and grace while all the while having to struggle to privately deal with the violent dissolution of her own inner and outer reality.

As fantastic as it is to dip your toes into Honda's past with the CRX Si, it's somewhat of a poignant but sad reminder that cars like this don't exist anymore.

is an unforgettable novel, alive with humor, unexpected romance, and the magic of hard - earned insight: a poignant reminder that it's never too late to fall in love and that one can always come of age a second time.

The constituent parts unite Balka's personal history with that of his fellow countrymen who ended their days in Nazi concentration camps and whose carefully labelled suitcases remain to this day one of the most poignant reminders of their fate.

Sometimes, you see something that is just a wonderful poignant reminder that you can not win a battle with a customer, whether the customer flies your airline or purchases services from you.