Acclaimed Australian composer Moya Henderson reveals the process and the poignant story at the heart of her new radiophonic composition. |
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The power of the book comes, though, from the poignant descriptions of the well-meaning but disconnected members and friends of the family. |
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What should be poignant moments come out slanderously funny, and the capper twist makes this the most satisfying of the bunch. |
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He came to parliament and made a poignant and dignified departure after a bungling and undignified three weeks. |
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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. |
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They've also discovered the power of strings, bookending the album with sparse, poignant chamber quartet arrangements. |
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The oblique suggestion of human presence in the unpeopled images effectively sparks the viewer's imagination and ends up being more poignant. |
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Much more than a straight narration of history, they have shed light on the social realities of those days in a poignant manner. |
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What he gets is the poignant, emollient presence of Connelly who looks soulfully at him. |
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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. |
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Were the diggers moved by these poignant finds to hold their own ceremonies? |
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It is a poignant passage that will stand the test of time and key you into meanings of shadow and redemption. |
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It is poignant without being preachy, invested with subtleties when the penchant in the past would have been to go overboard. |
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The showing of Anatomy of Pain on television was seen as poignant and revealing, a sort of purgation, catharsis. |
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Audiard has done a masterful job of creating a brash, nervy film that is poignant without ever being pretentious. |
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At special test screenings, seven out of ten viewers were reduced to tears by the poignant, but simple messages portrayed in the film. |
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Plus, David's a Newfie, so he can be funny and sad, poignant and hilarious, all at the same time. |
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This was a very poignant play, well acted and well produced with excellent set, lighting and sound effects. |
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The section of the book containing the teachers' poignant reflections reveals the degree of isolation new teachers often feel. |
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It's full of wry, witty observations, with poignant bits thrown in sparingly. |
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Rescreening the original programs offers a poignant and nostalgic insight into who we were, from horse wranglers to cow cockies. |
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What renders these tales of same-sex love almost unbearably poignant is their constant battle to be retrieved. |
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As on earlier discs, he enlivens Caribbean traditions with masterful jazz piano, by turns clamorous, poignant, playful and even swinging. |
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This story of parting manages to be poignant and pretty yet not cloying and the rhythm will move you as much as the words. |
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A classic and one of the most poignant tracks on the album, boasting swinging melody lines and sweet vocals. |
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A special occasion for any parents, it is particularly poignant for this family. |
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We grasp the poignant loneliness of the elevator attendant, sigh when Rhoda is hurt and squirm at the office busybody's interference. |
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A small ebony throne, decorated with gold leaf and ivory is a poignant reminder of his extraordinary childhood. |
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It is the simple act of humanizing the struggle, in the most poignant terms, putting a face to a name. |
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Instead we are offered a panorama of uniquely flawed relationships each imbued with enough personality to be poignant and credible. |
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Performing the poignant trumpet call is the 92-year-old's way of honouring those who made the ultimate sacrifice for Queen and country. |
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The palpable anger and sadness at a village fair, usually an occasion for gaiety, was a poignant commentary on the hypocritical times we live in. |
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They paid their poignant tributes as two teenage brothers were comforting each other after being orphaned in the tragedy. |
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Talk to intranet champions at big enterprises, and you'll soon hear a familiar, poignant lament. |
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In fact, the subtitled video is a poignant and hard-hitting meditation on four Turkish women who wear wigs, and why they do so. |
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It is also a poignant and often funny drama based around two strong female characters, an unusual and refreshing choice for any genre. |
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Wouldn't their inspiration be as stimulatingly poignant upon the earthly plane, if not the Celestial Terminus? |
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And though these words may belong to the big screen, they will haunt us whenever we recall the poignant scenes from the moving film. |
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This makes the events that follow all the more poignant, and later heart-rending. |
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It is the heart-warming and poignant story of three people whose lives are closely linked although they do not know it yet. |
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Another poignant shot captures the delight of machine operator Fritz Hummel after hearing by radio of the birth of his first son. |
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Her CV, hand scrawled in a bi-tel across nine pages of A4 foolscap is a terribly poignant autobiography. |
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This was a poignant and disturbing concert, especially in its timing on the day before Remembrance Sunday. |
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And in fall, as the larches yellow and the willows redden, its colors are rich, poignant. |
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The casual repressiveness of these images, the one frightening, the other poignant, itself seems sewn into the very fabric of Afghani society. |
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And while most of the characters are played for laughs, there are some truly poignant moments in this story. |
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The film paints a dimensional, poignant portrait of the artist and the following he inspired. |
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Cronenberg fashions a remake of the cheesy 1958 original that is by turns funny, poignant, repulsive, and intense. |
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Today, the Residency, a well-preserved and poignant memory of the Raj, is worth visiting. |
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For people of any age coming to terms with grief, this is a poignant and moving account, beautifully illustrated and sparingly written. |
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This is a poignant mosaic of testimonies performed by a very strong and versatile cast. |
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No. 2 is the longer by 13 minutes, and notable for the emergence of a poignant viola tune in the big lento finale, and for a shocking last bar. |
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So often it's as much about what isn't said between people that's poignant, disturbing and moving. |
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It is especially poignant that such a rift should occur in the year the event celebrates its golden jubilee. |
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It's a poignant, almost heartbreaking portrait of urban American loneliness, alienation and obsession. |
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The sense of occasion and history was also made more poignant by the pageantry that accompanied it. |
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This album is an irresistible blend of blues, rootsy soul, and soft acoustic rock, with poignant and heartfelt lyrical phrasing. |
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Gracie sits next to a rosebud and tree trunk, a poignant reminder of a life cut short. |
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If anything, Arte Povera distinguishes itself as the most poignant of all minimal and conceptual art movements and Anselmo is no exception. |
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Who could read Lucretia Garfield's poignant puzzlings in the 1850s about what being a wife meant and not Introduction.
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It is true that I have, like many who choose to write for a living, exaggerated senses of the absurd and the poignant. |
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Each mouthful is so poignant, however, that our appetite, if not assuaged, is at least abashed. |
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He can be rather repetitive, but his best work has great delicacy of colour and handling and a poignant sense of lost innocence. |
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This is a show with a sense of fun, a poignant side, a lesson to be learnt about family life and a little sprinkling of magic. |
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The children are there, too, poignant in their Norfolk jackets, sailor suits, and dropped-waist dresses. |
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The score is cabaret style and combines the biting satire of Kurt Weill and the lush, poignant lyricism of Berg. |
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But those days are long gone and the demise of its heavy industry remains the most poignant reminder of the city's former greatness. |
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The objectives of Harmony Day, which are particularly poignant at this point in time, relate to racism, intolerance and prejudice. |
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The sculpture is a poignant evocation of the essential temporality of human relationships. |
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This was a moving, poignant ceremony, which gave solace to the parents and families. |
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The proceedings included a poignant silence in memory of former colleagues who had died. |
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The story is a poignant narrative of the troubled times we live in when communal riots tear the couple apart. |
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Maybe it's my time of the month or something, but I found that quite poignant and moving. |
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The play follows the story of one man's fight to save his land, combining poignant drama with a sense of humour. |
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The mass graves discovered in the course of the American liberation tell their own poignant story. |
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The dialogues are at their most poignant in those scenes that deal with the experience of maternity. |
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It is a philosophical tearjerker, a poignant romance for the intellectual set, and a touching character study. |
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It's a humorous, serious, poignant, moving script, that genuinely explores the value and meaning of education. |
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And the writing is so pithy, so good at capturing the absurdly poignant with linguistic economy. |
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This debut may remind some readers of Lorrie Moore's dry and poignant tragicomedy. |
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His books are also meditations on sadness, a fact more poignant when he says that his books are always about him. |
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Its childish simplicity, with cheap cha-cha beatbox rhythm and wobbly guitar, is both disarming and strangely poignant. |
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Bubbling over with bright ideas, visual flourishes and deadpan drollery, this is a film of wry smiles and poignant moments. |
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People that are good at it and adept at it can be very guttural and gutsy and dark and moving and poignant all at the same time. |
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The dialogue is often poignant and moving, but the play is never allowed to slip into sentimentalism. |
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This poignant illustration of devastated motherhood exemplifies the problematics of literalizing Beloved on screen. |
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Hamilton has a way with words, and her descriptions of attempting to join the cool kids are poignant and funny. |
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This is a beautifully laid out book, with the prose interspersed with short poems, quotations, poignant photographs, and practical checklists. |
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It could be set in the east, but it wouldn't be as poignant and poetic and elegiacal. |
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But the film is strikingly bereft of tangible anger, its mood more poignant than incendiary. |
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The balance of poignant to funny material is now a bit out of kilter and I have to get into the premise of the whole thing a lot more quickly. |
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In the various sessions, it ran up and down the scales from high drama to epic tragedy, from broad comedy to poignant romance. |
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Her skills as a tragedienne come forward in Rigoletto and even more so in La traviata, where she is an unforgettably poignant Violetta. |
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The poignant sound of the contralto's voice pulled at the heart strings of her listeners as she held them under her spell. |
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In Stoppard's poignant and witty memory play, the poet lies on his deathbed remembering and misremembering his emotional and scholarly life. |
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Her poetry is a superb distillation of the black idiom, capturing tones from the exquisitely humorous to the hauntingly poignant. |
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He draws us in with poignant songs of penetrating insinuendo, closer to our hearts than we care to admit. |
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New York night life in all its true, hilarious, horrific, poignant and pinheaded glory. |
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The play is a poignant domestic tragedy which follows the death of a seemingly faithful wife once her infidelities have been discovered. |
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One of the most poignant stories of the Torah tells us about Abraham, the first monotheist, and his relationship with God. |
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Fragile moments of poignant emotion are coupled with bland and lifeless battle scenes. |
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There were poignant scenes as his mortal remains were brought to the Church of the Immaculate Conception. |
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This tactile, sensual experience was made more poignant by the knowledge that these substances were pure, unalloyed, irreducible. |
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They act as a poignant reminder of the tragic incident seven days ago. |
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The Moon makes a poignant link to Pluto in your sign, by Monday, amping intuition of new people and situations. |
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But billy Childs absolutely delivers the goods in this poignant collection of Laura Nyro songs. |
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It was poignant because with her brightness and her zest for life, she is also dealing with something very dark. |
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What remains in the Waning West is a poignant landscape rich in local meanings, a reminder of a past that never quite produced sustained material abundance. |
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The majority of this album is built up around similar ambiences as the trio elaborate poignant melodies and impressive arrangements, complete with guitars, strings and horns. |
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And using an acute accent instead of the correct grave accent is a poignant, pathetic reminder of the potential for humiliation that social climbers expose themselves to. |
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The Burger Chef conundrum leads to another poignant exchange between the two lost souls. |
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Ende's poignant text reads like a journal of displacement and disillusion. |
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Forty days is the mourning period and he was working on that last, agonizing, poignant day because he too needed the money so desperately for his remaining small family. |
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Colbert has deftly hosted benefits and other shows and given hilarious and poignant commencement speeches. |
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Edwards can warble and exercise his vibrato technique during poignant bits and can belt out the hallelujahs as forcefully as any four-hundred-pound gospel diva. |
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In one of the more poignant scenes in the movie, the Hurons are brought to the mission chapel where they sit down patiently, turn away from the altar, and face the clock. |
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The poignant opening is a description of him as a child, fascinated by moving light, watching the lamplighter come up the street lighting the lamps. |
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It's such a detailed map of culture and philosophy and psychology, and a poignant rendering of the struggle between Apollonian and Dionysian tendencies. |
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And how is it that this poignant instrumental, played on a lone 12-string acoustic, conveys more than the most passionately articulated protest song? |
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There are so many poignant lines about Machiavellian politics and acting that I might try out here, that remaining silent would probably be my best course. |
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For those, especially aviation enthusiasts, who can remember the maiden flight of Concorde, the prospect that the aircraft might never fly again is a poignant one. |
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The best thing about this good play is the poignant and witty script. |
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Braff is striving to convey a poignant blend of pathos and humor here, but his sort of striving is a form of cheating. |
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With its energetic cast and insistent street score, it still manages to be poignant without becoming bathetic, and violent without being exploitative. |
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It's a non-stop rollercoaster ride of feel-good action, packed with gags, movie send-ups and poignant interludes, making this a thrilling rival to any live-action blockbuster. |
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What could be more befitting tribute than a poignant musical evening, bejeweled with similar soothing melodies, to a person for whom music was soul in itself. |
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Some of the images are very poignant, like the one of a boy searching for lice in his clothes. |
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It was a touching and poignant afternoon as friends gathered to show their respects to a man who had remained loyal and ever faithful to the ideals of Comhaltas. |
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I just want to luxuriate in a sliver of sports that was important and poignant and, in its own way, poetic. |
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The most poignant scenes in E-Team are the ones covering the horrors of Syria. |
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The most poignant part of the exhibit is a movie clip that shows what Western society has done to many other cultures where body art was once a serious matter. |
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This is a harrowing play made all the more poignant by its understatement. |
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And each time it does, it will be a poignant reminder of the life of the 19-year-old backpacker from the city murdered by an as yet untraced attacker in Australia in April. |
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Barber's boundless melodic inspiration takes inspired flight from the surging opening movement through the moving, poignant Andante and rousing bravura finale. |
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And Neoplatonism furnishes the most poignant example, inasmuch as its monism merely inverts earlier Platonism's dualism and only magnifies the melancholy. |
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Each will sit on a breadboard engraved with text matching European with African languages in what Boshoff sees as a futile but poignant attempt to claim a common humanity. |
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Darker and more harrowing is Saved starring Scottish veterans Irene McCallum and Edith McArthur in a poignant tale of a soft-hearted young nurse on a dementia ward. |
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But for a poignant and very enjoyable commentary on the grim perils of Vogue-inspired perfectionism, you could do no better. |
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As a result, the book is often casually poignant, its matter-of-fact style laying moments of absolute courage out for the reader with brutal honesty. |
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All of which makes David Freeman's portrait of Hitchcock in his final days all the more poignant. |
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But the way things turned out is all the more poignant if you see the enthusiasm she brought to Bitter Rice, as well as the steamy energy of the dance sequences. |
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Perhaps the most poignant thing about yesterday's ceremony was that the ability to fulfil that promise had been demonstrated even before the vow was taken. |
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He rightly recognized that the Berlin Wall was an abomination and a poignant symbol of the chains imprisoning the captive nations of Eastern Europe. |
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There will be many poignant moments before the Olympic Flame, which has been burning in the cauldron since the opening of the Games, is extinguished. |
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In Colchester museum, the tombstone of a Roman centurion stands a few feet above the spot where he had lain for centuries, a poignant bridging of time and space. |
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It turns to the countryside, narrating a poignant family conflict centered on Mohammad's widowed father, Hashem, a peasant farmer and charcoal burner. |
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In a poignant letter written in Syriac from prison to his son, Mara bar Serapion points out that those who persecuted wise men were overtaken by misfortune. |
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The horn duet in the first movement is one of the most beautiful passages of music ever written by anybody and Steinberg imbues it with a tenderness that is almost poignant. |
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Most rewarding are seemingly unrelated stories, like Toby's impending fatherhood, that end up having a poignant payoff within the cliffhanger ending of the season. |
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One letter was particularly poignant for Radcliffe in the clutter of condemnation, self-analysis and doubt that accompanied her return from Athens. |
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At the heart of his masterful Elegy for Kosovo, the Albanian fabulist Ismail Kadare places the poignant tale of two fourteenth-century minstrels joined in flight. |
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Suzuki and Butterfly dabbed each other's eyes, ecstatically twirled on any vestige of hope, performed a poignant fan dance, silhouetted behind silk screens. |
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Her poignant sounds fuel her husband's overblown images, forming an increasingly overheated circuit of baroque incommunicability that can only result in violence. |
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Lear enters, madly reliving episodes from his past, inveighing against female sexuality and reflecting on justice and authority in a poignant mixture of reason and madness. |
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But I don't feel good either at the sight of inveterate smokers hanging around in back alleys looking like lost souls drifting amid poignant plumes of smoke. |
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The consummate skill of his intricate guitar-playing remains a defining feature, flitting between upbeat to downright poignant with supreme invincibility. |
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It is a book that can be witty, moving or poignant, all at the same time. |
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A poignant and moving text tucked away on the page seems to sum it all up. |
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Could they, for example, feed one half of the audience with a sound to make them laugh, while the other half heard something poignant or distressing? |
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Old memories returned to her in that split second, followed by poignant smells and visions a past where her world was nothing less than a fairy tale. |
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This was so poignant and moving, and superbly executed by Urmana and Furlanetto, plus Mr Pappano and his amazing band, that I was in floods of tears. |
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Vast arrays of characters are played with fluency, creating extremely funny, but poignant, moments with an economy of style that keeps things clear and simple. |
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The most poignant part of the letter was the handwritten postscript. |
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That his new novel uses photography as a postscript for a moment in history which will forever be indelibly inscribed upon our souls is a gesture both probing and poignant. |
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And as poignant as that analogy may be, it is not the crux of the matter. |
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The passing of a beloved relative is always sad, but there is something especially poignant about the death of the last member of a generation in a family. |
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Some are hopeful, some are despairing and some are poignant. |
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What he does remember, however, strikes a poignant, elegiac note. |
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That this is an elegy only makes the poem more poignant, makes the grief of the persona part of the political indignation, complicates the emotional nexus of the voice. |
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One of its greatest moments is the duet Sull 'Aria which provided one of the most poignant moments in the movie The Shawshank Redemption. |
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Slightly tremulous vocals feeling their way gently through the chiming guitars heighten the famously poignant melodics. |
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The Isle of Man has paid a poignant tribute to one of its most famous Manxmen Robin Gibb CBE today. |
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The writing is, at turns, poignant, lively, empathic, and full of wit. |
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There was a poignant juxtaposition between the boys laughing in the street and the girl crying on the balcony above. |
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Small hand and fingermarks found on the INSIDE of that door provided a poignant image of his desperate attempts to escape. |
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A poignant retelling of this event based on what Goethe had personally witnessed can be found in his long poem Hermann and Dorothea. |
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Her fifty-six eloquent prose poems are sometimes humorous, sometimes poignant, and always creative. |
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It is poignant that Gordon Strachan's side are facing Germany so close to Monchengladbach, the home town of Erich Peter Schaedler. |
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Amid the emoting, the far more poignant farewell from Jamie Oliver has been largely drowned out. |
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In his third chapter, Rieger talks about postcolonialism from a particularly poignant Western-academic viewpoint. |
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Cameron framed the romance with the elderly Rose to make the intervening years palpable and poignant. |
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On its surface, the message is simple and poignant, yet hopeful. |
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In turn, this implies that much of the popularity of CAM is a poignant criticism of the failure of mainstream healthcare. |
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Perhaps most poignant and revealing are the remarks of students. |
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It was poignant, and we so wanted to leave and be out there. |
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He retained poignant memories of childhood, helped by an excellent memory of people and events, which he used in his writing. |
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Cole is wrenchingly poignant in a life which has somehow slipped onto the sidelines. |
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A poignant moment came at a healing ceremony under a 350-year-old willow oak at Shirley Plantation on the banks of the James River. |
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Murthy helped paint the dark and poignant world of Guru Dutt's movies and was the first person to shoot in cinemascope. |
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Even if you know little about Neruda or classical music, this poignant album is spellbinding. |
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The tenderness shown between Micah and his grandfather is really quite touching and there are some very poignant moments weaved into the tale. |
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Other poignant reminders include stretchers, battledress buttons, bully beef tins, and army boots. |
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Barrie's poignant attempt at ghost whispering to be trenching on the Gothic, that's because it ties into a long generic and historical convention of Gothic tropology. |
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Here, as a relief from all this exhibition's sweatiness, is dusky shadow, which acts as a poignant foil to the knocking shop in which the scene of concupiscence takes place. |
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With poignant as well as spunky moments expressed through pacing and pitch changes, listeners will not just hear, but also feel the changing and developing emotions. |
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Riggi, meanwhile, tosses off perfectly clipped riffs about straight male coworkers before closing with a coming-out story so poignant that no retelling could do it justice. |
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With this collection of paintings and drawings entitled Rites of Passage, Silke Berens confronts her audience with these and many more poignant questions. |
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Hence Congolese thumb pianos spice up Horchata, violins sweeten the skanky Diplomat's Son, and poignant I Think Ur A Contra nods lyrically to The Clash. |
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The tennis game between Kate and Gerry McCann, with Madeleine acting as ball girl, is one of poignant scenes recreated by actors for tomorrow night's Crimewatch programme. |
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In a poignant nod to manners, Little Blue Truck becomes ensnarled in a traffic jam, where it implores short-tempered city vehicles to calm down and to proceed one at a time. |
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A poignant, suspenseful memoir about the author's search for his suicidal twin brother, who in his late 20s mysteriously disappeared from Manhattan. |
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This will be followed by a message from Cobh Town Mayor and other dignitaries in the Promenade Band Stand and a poignant gun salute exchange from Spike Island and the LE Emer. |
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The set changes, magical effects and poignant moments, such as the young and old Scrooges singing together, give this production memorable appeal. |
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Unlike Jha's previous socio-political flicks, Satyagraha contains fewer poignant moments and attention-grabbing scenes, but this is a thoughtprovoking watch. |
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One particularly poignant example of such an encounter is the Hmong immigration to the United States, a people who have throughout their entire history been animists. |
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This mature young pianist can convey everything with conviction, from poignant bell-like floating melodies, to torrential arpeggios and monumental pianistic nobilities. |
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Her father's sad passing makes such memories deeply poignant, but Meadows relays them too chirpily for me to embarrass myself by getting moist-eyed. |
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The oscillating strategies of annihilation, exclusionary containment, and assimilation with respect to Native Americans provide but one very poignant case and point. |
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His photographs and masterful expressionistic videos were for me as poignant and as important as the music and the bands and artists he worked with. |
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A poignant reply will garner more credence than hours of blown smoke. |
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