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Acclaimed Australian composer Moya Henderson reveals the process and the poignant story at the heart of her new radiophonic composition.
The power of the book comes, though, from the poignant descriptions of the well-meaning but disconnected members and friends of the family.
What should be poignant moments come out slanderously funny, and the capper twist makes this the most satisfying of the bunch.
He came to parliament and made a poignant and dignified departure after a bungling and undignified three weeks.
In life some tragedies are strange and unexplainable and the passing of a young person in the prime of life is perhaps the most poignant of all.
They've also discovered the power of strings, bookending the album with sparse, poignant chamber quartet arrangements.
The oblique suggestion of human presence in the unpeopled images effectively sparks the viewer's imagination and ends up being more poignant.
Much more than a straight narration of history, they have shed light on the social realities of those days in a poignant manner.
What he gets is the poignant, emollient presence of Connelly who looks soulfully at him.
Modern football is utterly absorbed by the here-and-now, so it was untypical, and poignant, to hear fans acclaim a figure from another era.
Were the diggers moved by these poignant finds to hold their own ceremonies?
It is a poignant passage that will stand the test of time and key you into meanings of shadow and redemption.
It is poignant without being preachy, invested with subtleties when the penchant in the past would have been to go overboard.
The showing of Anatomy of Pain on television was seen as poignant and revealing, a sort of purgation, catharsis.
Audiard has done a masterful job of creating a brash, nervy film that is poignant without ever being pretentious.
At special test screenings, seven out of ten viewers were reduced to tears by the poignant, but simple messages portrayed in the film.
Plus, David's a Newfie, so he can be funny and sad, poignant and hilarious, all at the same time.
This was a very poignant play, well acted and well produced with excellent set, lighting and sound effects.
The section of the book containing the teachers' poignant reflections reveals the degree of isolation new teachers often feel.
It's full of wry, witty observations, with poignant bits thrown in sparingly.
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Examples from Classical Literature
It is this externality of relation that makes hate and fear so poignant and so bitter.
Oh, there had been moments all the sweeter and more poignant because they had been so fleeting.
To the spectator, certainly, the flow and transiency become apparent and poignant.
And it suddenly impressed me as something poignant, as something with the Vergilian touch of tears in it.
There was something about this courier's mien and person that awoke a poignant memory.
She could not at first guess any possible cause for an emotion so poignant.
All the good he heard said of his victim ended by causing him poignant anxiety.
Had I done so, how poignant would be my remorse at the retribution of our own sufferings, and the pity of those I had so injured!
This came to me first with a poignant thrill when I found myself in the presence of the Chinese Wall.
It looked a desolation, a poignant gloom, an unrelieved sorrow.
Keen, poignant agonies seemed to shoot from his neck downward through every fiber of his body and limbs.
One program scheduled the acidly funny Educated with the poignant White Like the Moon but also the amateurish Deborah Morris.
It was so poignant a sensation that it crossed the borderline into pain.
Indeed, in the softer passages, Chang could be quite poignant, though the charms of the energetic finale for the most part eluded her.
It's poignant to see Christopher Reeve moving mountains as the Man Of Steel in a seriousminded comic book opus played straight.
Goethe himself has left us the most poignant declaration of the commensurability of poetry and philosophy.
The little house of dreams added another poignant and unforgettable moment to its store of memories.
After the poignant image of the drowned Syrian boy, Aylan Kurdi, went round the world, Cameron faced more general odium.
Those were days of fond reminiscence and poignant regret on my part.
To Pitt, this separation was the poignant climax of all his sufferings.
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