The closing scene, which reaches for poignancy, would particularly benefit.
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"There's a poignancy to being with someone older," she observed.
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Yet this juxtaposition is the key to the exhibition's poignancy.
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My own breath caught at the poignancy of the request.
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On Wednesday night, though, it was enlivening, and underlaid with poignancy.
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Others celebrate the edge of adulthood with humor, poignancy, and grace.
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Nope: it's the heart-shredding poignancy I can't get enough of.
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There was a special poignancy to Rachel Robinson's presence in Cuba.
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When they do the power and poignancy of it is overwhelming.
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Our reviewer, Patrick Abatiell, noted the novel's "robust material" and "poignancy."
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The soprano sings in plaintive phrases of disarming poignancy in parts.
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"Like with my dad," Khloé says, with a matter-of-fact poignancy.
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That adds a layer of wistfulness and poignancy right from the start.
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Yet the poignancy of the relationship has become much more striking lately.
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But there's a special poignancy in Bloodlines and its ever-excavating fanbase.
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In the grave, great slow movement, she played with restraint and poignancy.
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"There's a poignancy to being with someone older," Paulson told the newspaper.
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Indeed, Delrahim even lobbied for Google, adding more poignancy to the fight.
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After she became pregnant, the distance between them took on new poignancy.
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Less effectual are the film's feints at poignancy in the final third.
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Toward those most recherché of deviants, Bobby felt something close to poignancy.
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There is urgency and poignancy to it — and the results to match.
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This duet takes on an added poignancy now that both men are gone.
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Then her moment of poignancy was over and she snapped back to reality.
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It is a classic illustration of Morris's musical insight and visual poignancy. lincolncenter.
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But the emotional and narrative poignancy of striking images like these hardly lasts.
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The Lobster's enduring magic is in its inimitable blend of comedy, bitterness, and poignancy.
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It's a welcome thematic centerpiece, one that almost achieves a genuine sense of poignancy.
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" And then with sudden, swift poignancy, "Why can't we eat rice twice a day?
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As a writer, Ms. Vetrano also chronicled the pain and poignancy of her life.
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He balanced poignancy and gravity in his rich-textured account of the slow movement.
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And there was poignancy to the play's parting tableau of satyrs watching a sunrise.
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This poignancy makes the picture less humorous but potentially more substantive than its predecessors.
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"For this family, [the festive season] will be one of deep poignancy," Mickel said.
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That gives a certain poignancy to Women's History Month, which is celebrated in March.
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He works in different scales, uses different palettes, and arrives at dissimilar conditions of poignancy.
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Recorder finds poignancy in Stokes's obsessive mission, rather than look at her as an oddity.
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As in "Green Book", "The Best of Enemies" can be funny and manages some poignancy.
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"There is a certain poignancy about them choosing Frogmore Cottage," says Basu, speaking from Delhi.
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The episode was engineered to give her fate maximum poignancy — or maybe just shock value.
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The girl looks worriedly at her parents, capturing the story's essence with efficiency and poignancy.
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But "Ride the Cyclone" never dawdles on such poignancy — in fact, it scrupulously avoids it.
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Ms. Southwell delivered the anguished phrases with an affecting blend of earthy power and poignancy.
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It's grounded in authentic ideas and behaviors, finding poignancy and meaning beyond the fantastical elements.
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Impossible to forget, their watercolor grace both belies and accentuates the poignancy at their core.
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The struggle to be 'liked' requires a determination and poignancy that only Streep can capture.
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It concluded not with bombast but with poignancy, and was all the better for it.
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In the midst of miracles, their love-hate liaison never loses its rivalry—or its poignancy.
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As acting partners, Moss and Strahovski have played their high-stakes roles with exactness and poignancy.
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But Thirty Flights of Loving had things like poignancy, it had tender moments, and thrilling moments.
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Set mostly in Brooklyn, the nine stories in this début collection are full of subtle poignancy.
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Louis says some French heterosexuals apparently missed the poignancy, recalling journalists misrepresenting the sequence as rape.
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There's a poignancy to this moment, strengthened by how well we know Bash at this point.
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Still, there is real poignancy in this novel, as wounded characters struggle to regain childhood loyalties.
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The strains and indignities that come with remaking a life give Niloo's story poignancy and relevance.
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Often the music suggests the emotion the characters cannot show in public; the poignancy is overwhelming.
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"Crown of Blood" draws poignancy from the shared doom of Jane and her husband, Guildford Dudley.
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Why shouldn't I lean into the poignancy, made manifest on the stage, of a familiar struggle?
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Their scenes take on a special poignancy in a show that has always balanced love with loss.
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"Twenty years later, to have this crack at it … that just adds to the poignancy," Bartlett said.
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JoJo sings of them with empowerment and poignancy in her voice and lyrics rather than seeking pity.
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This year's commemorations have an added poignancy because a century has passed since the guns fell silent.
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The fact that the tale is told by a future, adult narrator only adds to the poignancy.
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It is also a marvel of storytelling, with the chapters conjuring a poignancy fitting for the subject.
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Technological advances in particular have lent poignancy to the old saw: There ought to be a law.
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He vividly conveys the declamatory thrust and poignancy of the music, bringing affecting dignity to his portrayal.
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Visuals aside, "Maps" remains the record's crown jewel because it's cut with a potent poignancy previously unrevealed.
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The play's poignancy lies in how mercilessly difficult that is, and how precarious for all of them.
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While there is humor and poignancy in both opera and design, there is nothing sentimental about either.
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The strains and indignities that come with remaking a life are what give "Refuge" poignancy and relevance.
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But Mabel's real chemistry is with a smitten screenwriter, Frank, played with near-poignancy by Ben Fankhauser.
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"The Skate" gets at both, as Ms. Childs runs a sly shell game with playfulness and poignancy.
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Worsley writes about this with humor and poignancy and common sense, just as Austen would have wished.
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For Mr. Anderson, who served in the Marine Corps for three years, the expansion has particular poignancy.
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Lots of things you see on the net can be ... Even Tinder has a poignancy to it, right?
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Shows like Master of None and Fresh Off the Boat treat immigrant families' experiences with humor and poignancy.
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That all adds even more poignancy to the subtle emotional swells of Spock's visit with his younger self.
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I think it's very funny, but it's got a poignancy and a sense of drama that's really wonderful.
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And just like the child is follows, it has a deeper poignancy masked by its seemingly simple surface.
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Besides its poignancy, the second anniversary of the crash is important for the relatives in other ways, too.
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The poignancy of this image underlies the clash between fantasy and reality -- and lands with a devastating thud.
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Every other element of this tale is a perfectly balanced mixture of the macabre with pure human poignancy.
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The true poignancy of the episode, however, is revealed in a subplot involving Carrie and her boyfriend Aiden.
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Still, the film's final images of him, totally dependent on his keepers, achieve a kind of morbid poignancy.
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Its subjects were often "ripped from the headlines," faithfully or otherwise, lending it the poignancy of true crime.
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The island of Puerto Rico, where my parents came from, is displayed with beauty and poignancy by Santiago.
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You'd think this might be frustrating to watch, but Arnold directs these scenes with a touch of poignancy.
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Sure of course, but it was also rich with poignancy, sadness, joy and sharp-as-a-tack wit.
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Though she teeters on the edge of satire, she lands instead (like Pym or Evelyn Waugh) on poignancy.
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And amid an excellent cast, the tenor Isaiah Bell as the Madwoman gives a performance of exquisite poignancy.
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There's an unspeakable poignancy to looking at these beings and thinking of their loneliness, and of what's lost.
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It gives the missing-child narrative at the story's heart a revisionist poignancy that speaks to the present day.
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This, combined with the clipped tones, casual sexism and dry war humour, lend the book authenticity and sharp poignancy.
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But it's helped along by fascinating source material and a few moments of poignancy that land with welcome heft.
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There are brief allusions, but it's difficult to feel their poignancy in the absence of a fully drawn biography.
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If you like Sarah Silverman for her raunchy standup, you may be surprised by the poignancy of her memoir.
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For that matter, the endless repetition of the same day recalls Groundhog Day, which found poignancy in the gimmick.
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Remarkably, she showed much the same capacity for poignancy as Ms. Ferri, whether protesting angrily or merely walking slowly.
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A focus on the characters, which would give this story the poignancy that its subject matter demands, is lacking.
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The juvenile point of view adds poignancy to the depiction of messy adult lives and New York's vanishing bohemia.
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Yet, when the character's ruminations take the music into higher lyrical phrases, Mr. Owens sings with poignancy and tenderness.
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The poignancy of their relationship in particular made the conclusion land for me, as it carried increased emotional heft.
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Ultimately, it brings an emotional poignancy to Sampha's work that you can't access through listening to the record alone.
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McCrae died a short while later himself without ever seeing home again, which clearly adds to the poignancy of it.
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But "Queen of Versailles" more successfully delivered the kind of complexity and poignancy for which Ms Greenfield seems to strive.
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Her gorgeous, searching renditions of "Autumn Leaves" and "(Have I Stayed) Too Long at the Fair" rang with personal poignancy.
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"Justice Blackmun begins his statement by describing with poignancy the death of a convicted murderer by lethal injection," Scalia wrote.
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The poignancy of these passages mirrors that of later scenes in which Francis gradually finds community in a neighborhood barbershop.
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In the context of this story, that Laurentino in his hazy mental state confuses Mark with Rafael has uncommon poignancy.
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Still, his voice carried effectively in the house on Thursday, and he brought uncommon tenderness and poignancy to the role.
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They're perfect mediums to reflect the poignancy of collective survival, in which individual personhood becomes part of a larger narrative.
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With particular poignancy, the eighth-grader touches on the shame society's focus on fat can bring upon people with bigger bodies.
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So, theoretically, there should be a poignancy to the second half of the season that was missing during the first half.
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The shared past of these friends is inextricably intertwined in their present and this where the poignancy of the film lives.
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It gave the lines "Let aeroplanes circle moaning overhead/Scribbling on the sky the message 'He Is Dead'" a shuddering poignancy.
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In that 2011 quote, he doesn't just recite the film's lyrics, he defends their poignancy in the face of their genesis.
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"There's a poignancy and something touching about the way film can transform these possibilities of life into something real," he says.
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But in this case, the Möbius strip approach worked, imbuing an already suspenseful and sad moment with deep poignancy and meaning.
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The Sisyphean poignancy to this book gives it a heft that "Bernadette" lacked, even if it's also rougher around the edges.
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Handel's music conveys that confusion with vocal lines that seem at once weighed down with poignancy and restless with skittish flights.
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What gives these encounters poignancy is how Mr. Hnath and Mr. Mantello have recontextualized them as a sort of every marriage.
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He brought a special poignancy to the Noël Coward standard "If Love Were All," a lament about the loneliness of celebrity.
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Amid the isolation and indifference, though, were surprising interactions with strangers and moments of tenderness, which add poignancy to the piece.
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But it couldn't compete with the pristine integrity and shaggy poignancy of "Columbia Icefield," often gloomy yet somehow never quite depressing.
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Brimming with poignancy, humor, and a requisite touch of cynicism, it's the work of a songwriter at the peak of his craft.
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This fairy-tale logic is something of a narrative cheat, but the amnesia is ultimately what gives the film its considerable poignancy.
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But he made every word matter, shaping lyrical lines with poignancy, conveying the tragic subtext to every youthful effusion in the music.
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But it lends poignancy to this concept to present them as old actors in a theater company dusting off a familiar play.
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And yet, as Mario ages and radio is eclipsed by television, Mr. de La Lombana squeezes poignancy out of Pedro's dimming cognition.
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In the process, Toledo captures, with equal parts wit and poignancy, the freefall between losing your innocence and reclaiming your self-respect.
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Why look for meaning in everything when the entire point of the comedy exercise is to transcend meaning and responsibility and poignancy?
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Both programs feature "Rushes," a 24428 collaboration with the Israeli choreographer Inbal Pinto that allows Pilobolus to exhibit a rare melancholic poignancy.
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And the tragic poignancy of Violetta's sacrifice when she agrees to give up Alfredo comes from her imagining that young woman's predicament.
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But after one of the tougher stretches of his career — "if not the toughest," Pavelski said — the gesture took on added poignancy.
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But it's a vaudevillian notion of sex they're presenting, and the poignancy and poetry within their characters' coming together are mostly absent.
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The One Love Manchester benefit concert Sunday took on new urgency and poignancy following the deadly terrorist attack in London the day before.
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Thus, one might find this image disturbing, even while admiring the power, artistry, and poignancy inherent in its use of the American flag.
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Yet the potential poignancy of this flipping of filial relationships, and its relation to Shakespeare's themes, is entirely undercut by the theatrical shenanigans.
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Leonard Cohen's recent letter to his dying muse, Marianne Ihlen, takes on a new poignancy with the sad news of his death. pic.twitter.
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This heightened sense of poignancy results from the fact that unemployment in France today is stubbornly stuck at unacceptably high levels (currently 10.3%).
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RUSSONELLO Of course late-career Toby Keith would find poignancy at the intersection of deflated bluster and a stubborn clinging to the past.
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So far it lacks the poignancy that can be Mr. Neenan's best asset; but it closed the Bodytraffic event on a relative high.
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"The strains and indignities that come with remaking a life are what give 'Refuge' poignancy and relevance," Jennifer Senior wrote in The Times.
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" And there is a poignancy, too, to the deep and rueful knowledge of the ravages of alcohol laid so bare in "Big Blonde.
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I did feel that, for all the poignancy and fervor of Ms. DiDonato's singing, she was still finding her way in the role.
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The "Oklahoma!" revival emphasizes the violence and danger of an American frontier community, while the authenticity of the "Fiddler" revival reinforces its poignancy.
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In retrospect, there's a striking poignancy to the dedication of her collection "Birth and After Birth and Other Plays (A Marriage Cycle)" (2010).
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It's full of soaring music and chess metaphors ("Reset the pieces and play a game"), but all the poignancy of an emotional sports movie.
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The poignancy of Mr. Scheuer's and Ms. Lerner's images arises from the implacable effect that estranging clinical spaces impose on previously secure domestic places.
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Never Look Away is perhaps too epic, too ambitious, eager to make grand statements rather than to find poignancy and authenticity in one story.
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I can't say it any other way than there's a poignancy to it, and a heightened sense of time and the value of time.
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Hemmings perfectly captures modern parenthood among the privileged and, with moments of concise poignancy, the silent shames of motherhood: envy, boredom, laziness and guilt.
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When Gloucester's fortunes fall, sunk in part by his own imperious wife (the excellent Sophia Skiles), Ms. Katigbak imbues him with a desolate poignancy.
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There was more poignancy than politics, though, and Mr. Biden did little to hide how saddened he was by the death of his friend.
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The book also has a new poignancy in light of what we know about its author's own ambivalence about her status as a woman.
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Because the novel began with the intimate revelation of Mayya's secret yearning, though, we understand both the poignancy and the partiality of London's comprehension.
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I wanted a little more poignancy and melting power in the richly expressive passages that sound like an extension of Brahms, Mahler and Strauss.
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His own political emergence a few years after Nixon resigned lends poignancy to his choice against hearing witnesses, which he announced late Thursday night.
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It's a flourish that—in its poignancy and nod of reverence toward the album form—remains one of the year's most memorable musical moments.
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This year, for some rank-and-file Russian Orthodox believers, the story of a just man unfairly accused but ultimately vindicated has even greater poignancy.
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The good news is that Handmaid's Tale Season 2 eventually does start to recapture some of the poignancy that made Season 21 an unprecedented phenomenon.
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The tune — about the journey and battle for civil rights — is always powerful, but took on additional poignancy last night amidst the strife of 2016.
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Milosz's early- and post-war poems are haunted by survivor's guilt, the poignancy of living after what was, for so many others, the world's end.
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Still, there's always going to be some added poignancy to any performance of this very sentimental song now that the White Stripes are no more.
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It's a powerful vantage point, and one that holds both the practical realities and the lyrical poignancy of 11-year-old voices in equal tension.
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"Vessel," the group's new album, is full of tiny scenes that hit with incredible poignancy, from her New York childhood up through her uncertain 20s.
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But Modersohn-Becker's work takes on especially painful poignancy when looked at in light of her life story and early death from a postpartum embolism.
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Impressively photographed and perkily paced, Jason Filiatrault's story never droops quite as much as its lead character, injecting a welcome poignancy that tempers the cuteness.
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Kimberly Senior, who directed this production and has grown close to Mr. Mandvi since overseeing "Disgraced," said the show had a poignancy in today's context.
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All credit to Marchánt Davis, then, for finding the deep pocket of poignancy in his beleaguered character, a Miami preacher and sidewalk revolutionary named Moses.
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"The poignancy of that loss and the pricelessness of my memories of him wash over my heart in this very moment," the Arizona Republican wrote.
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Blumenthal's meal summoned a similarly eerie poignancy as we feasted on these refined, fanciful renderings of dishes rooted in the residue of a lost city.
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His stories shed light on both soldiers at war and who they become once they return home with poignancy, tenderness, and surprising moments of humor.
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The fact that one can only go forward and never know what might have been is part of what gives a story heft and poignancy.
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Excitement and poignancy have been discrete quantities in the eighth season, each time lasting for the duration of a scene without enlivening an entire episode.
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" In a statement, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences announced that Studi was chosen for "portraying strong Native American characters with poignancy and authenticity.
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" The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences said he was chosen for the honorary award for "portraying strong Native American characters with poignancy and authenticity.
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Heavily inspired by his near-death bout with pneumonia in 2011, the song is a celebration of life – and takes on extra poignancy after his death.
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The storyline about Lisa's infertility and her and Ethan's struggles with IVF is, for the most part, handled surprisingly well, with both humor and heartbreaking poignancy.
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After a shaky beginning, the mostly fine actors do well balancing the levity and poignancy of the play, whose temporal scope makes a balm of remembrance.
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He dies off-page, meaning the final words we hear from Moody — "See you all in about an hour at The Burrow" — have an added poignancy.
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The plainness of Kutsukake's prose can verge on threadbare, with patches of earnest research peeking through, but these lapses are balanced by moments of indelible poignancy.
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Building to a sad, unsettling poignancy, their production manages to encompass the whole point of life — and the terrible, foolish risk of missing out on that.
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She makes them sound contemporary and newly contemplative; she understates the dimensions that can seem religiose or portentous; she shows both wry humor and deep poignancy.
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Ask a Showrunner Ahead of the show's final season premiere, David Simon and George Pelecanos talked about its abiding poignancy and the legacy of 42nd Street.
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She's less successful when she turns serious, trying for a poignancy that requires more acting skill than she possesses; several segments are more maudlin than moving.
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Then, when the performance is almost done, they have a scene of such poignancy, with such well-modulated acting, that we wonder: What took so long?
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It uses pop music ironically — "I Love a Rainy Night" by Eddie Rabbit as a character struggles across the parched Australian Outback — and with odd poignancy.
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In "Throat Cut," now on display as part of the Giacometti retrospective at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, the artist depicts with poignancy what is grotesque.
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But that displacement is part of its poignancy; like the land of Palestine itself, this is just a fragment of something our imagination works to fill in.
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In the leading role of the Waltz and Elegy heroine, Lillian DiPiazza has a beauty and poignancy, but she lacks the technical assurance that yields true authority.
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Most notably, though, both Gervais and Merchant's latest efforts also mark a return to the core success of their debut, which was really a triumph of poignancy.
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" During the group sessions, Ms. Dowden said, "there's so much laughter in the room, so much joy and love of life as well as poignancy and tears.
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The novel's satiric impulse—toward art-world hypocrisy, late capitalism, heterosexual love—is unsparing and ambitious, but undermines its attempt at poignancy in the central sibling relationship.
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Out in the postdivorce world, the publisher Sarah Crichton, in a tour de force of comedy and poignancy, describes the travails of dating again at almost 60.
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Another male soloist, Alexei Hammoudi, a tall dancer partnering Ms. Seo on Wednesday, brought poignancy to Act II and impressive attack in Act III to the Prince.
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Presenting the exhibition in the Turner Contemporary, which looks directly onto the sea, gave poignancy to the poem's motifs of "drowning, voyages and shipwrecks," Mr. Tooby said.
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The shoes were never worn and are now being sold by the owners because their baby died; all of that grief and poignancy, conveyed in six words.
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Glass-clad towers that climb ever higher give quiet spaces like Pomander Walk added poignancy: The alleyways offer pockets of respite that are hard to come by.
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Though the title sets the stage for failure, it's the figures that embody the absurdity, and poignancy, of a kingdom of scraps and a court of fools.
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And the contrast between the chilly impersonality of the Avalon and the anguish of its human cargo lends the first half of the movie a desperate poignancy.
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But they have been heightened here at the expense of poignancy, especially in the scenes involving the disapproving, college-age children of the play's New York socialites.
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Yet when Turandot melted at the thought of this young woman, she shaped the ascending phrase with aching poignancy, lingering on a sad and shimmering sustained tone.
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The dark, comic poignancy of the book is drowned in garish, self-conscious whimsy, and the work of a talented ensemble is squandered on awkward heartstring snatching.
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CAIRO — Vice President Mike Pence's planned visit to the Middle East, the cradle of Christianity, ought to have had a particular poignancy in the days before Christmas.
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On the shows, the music functions as a kind of omniscient narrator, giving (or purporting to give) clues about characters' thoughts, and conjuring poignancy out of mundane interactions.
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One hesitates to assign the Black Paintings' poignancy to the historical fact that such semiotic complexities would soon vanish in the service of a kind of Pop formalism.
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But for the most part, Cali transmits his tale on older, Grimm-attuned frequencies, while Somà's illustrations possess a dry, surreal wit that serves the story's poignancy well.
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It was meant to be about high school unity, but has new poignancy after the tragedy, which brought together alumni and the residents of Parkland, and well beyond.
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He zipped among topics like a hummingbird, hovering on a subject just long enough to dip into its absurdity or poignancy before another more appealing option presented itself.
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For those who mourn the dead — scribes like the Greek poet Simonides, who wrote epitaphs for fallen warriors — your voice must tremble with poignancy, with a certain piteousness.
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There was an element of poignancy, too, with former Cubs stars who never did win it all — players like Billy Williams, Ferguson Jenkins and Ryne Sandberg — on hand.
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Only when the auteur's piano saturates the climactic "Time Will Tell" does his vision of romance in perpetual suspended animation regain the poignancy he's so convinced it's worth.
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With this record, Skinner documented an ambiance that's existed as long as pubs and clubs have been around, yet hasn't been described with such poignancy before or since.
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Queen's Freddie Mercury has been gone since 1991, but his death nevertheless added poignancy to "Bohemian Rhapsody" that may have made viewers want to re-connect with the music.
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Seeing him having the time of his life behind the keyboard proves just the right note of poignancy on which to end a movie about the power of nostalgia.
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The poignancy of these intimate photographs seems to lie in the essential respect the camera offers its subjects, who sit for their portraits as an act of self-expression.
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News that Mr Jarrett has cancelled a forthcoming solo concert at Carnegie Hall in New York, reportedly on account of a long-term illness, has added to the poignancy.
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That history lends poignancy to neat pen-and-ink drawings hidden on a final page, showing two dogs hunting a lion: a coded lament over the persecution of Jews.
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Her political material is wry and pointed, and her personal jokes can achieve the poignancy of a slice-of-life scene from one of Alan Bennett's delicately observed plays.
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" Finally, "the poignancy became too hard to take … It was a source of strength to know how much they had cared, but it also intensified the pain of failure.
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His performance works for the character, as you'd expect, but it's limited — you sense that you're supposed to feel a poignancy in Ray's contradictions that doesn't quite come through.
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Its poignancy becomes even more pronounced when the speaker shifts to a consideration of how a domestic landscape changes when the person at the center of it is gone.
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When Mr. Gomes entered, pigeon on his shoulder, during Saturday's matinee performance, Victoria Hulland (the ballet's heroine) and André Messager's music had effectively established a mood of quiet poignancy.
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Cute little John-John never lived down the famous picture of him hiding under his Dad's desk, which years later took on extra poignancy after both suffered early deaths.
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The eerie poignancy of seeing these two men together in a peaceful setting, united by a desire to share their stories, drove home the potential power of Rakowitz's project.
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If my father, now 22.99, were destined to live forever, and if I were destined to live forever, too, then our affection would be stripped of its poignancy and urgency.
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When the show debuted in 2014, waves of critics (including me!) wrote ecstatically about how BoJack Horseman nailed tricky depictions of depression and found poignancy in the bleakest of places.
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The song was written before the Orlando shootings that took place this weekend, but in the wake of this senseless tragedy her words take on a new and brutal poignancy.
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She spent the day privately at Sandringham with the minimum of fuss as it's a day tinged with poignancy as it's also the anniversary of the death of her father.
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Combining horror and poignancy isn't the easiest of tasks, but — like in L.T.'s Theory of Pets — it's a combination that King pulls off flawlessly in this grim little tale.
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They discuss the show, which is billed as comedy but embedded with moments of poignancy about the universality of human life and what it means to be a New Yorker.
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Nostalgia is not about the extraordinary moments in your life, or any life, but about the ones that pass unnoticed — the collective poignancy of a crowd going about its business.
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What starts out as a clever send-up, with its ticklishly absurdist dialogue delivered in pitch-perfect public-radio speak, is also more than that, with surprising moments of poignancy.
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In May he visited the Yad Vashem memorial to the Holocaust in Jerusalem, but offended some people by zipping through it far too quickly to absorb its poignancy and power.
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He plays Chopin and Schumann, as he does so often, but there's also something of a novelty for these fingers: the Brahms Op. 117 Intermezzos, late music of unbearable poignancy.
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The highly ambiguous drama that develops demonstrates the poignancy of men who have more in common with one another than with their women, and for whom self-expression is difficult.
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That material has the snap and the poignancy we've grown accustomed to, as does the story centered on BoJack's manager, Princess Carolyn (Amy Sedaris), who's trying to have a child.
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With the terrible knowledge of hindsight, the gentleness of "The Great Dictator" and the high spirits of "To Be or Not to Be" take on a special kind of poignancy.
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There was the agony of knowing how young and vibrant he was at the moment he was cut down; there was also the poignancy of his years of unalleviated suffering.
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One can only wonder whether his preference for realism in an artistic context that heavily championed avant-garde art is what set him back, given the poignancy of his content.
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He acknowledged that this Australian Open, which begins Monday, could be the finish line, and surely the poignancy of making such an announcement in Melbourne was not lost on him.
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An older work (the images were taken in 1994–95), it acquires greater poignancy and urgency given the ongoing tensions in Kashmir that once again erupted mid-February this year.
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But it's also commodified poignancy: an encapsulated micronarrative, like Ernest Hemingway's "For sale: baby shoes, never worn," which relies on the bathroom's universal familiarity to deliver a quick dose of pathos.
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The Queen will spend the day privately at Sandringham with the minimum of fuss as it's a day tinged with poignancy as it's the anniversary of the death of her father.
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This imbues the video with the poignancy of an award show "In Memoriam" segment even though it is, of course, just a tribute video to an app that doesn't exist anymore.
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A music video for the first single, "Lazarus," showed him lying in a hospital bed with bandages across his eyes, and singing lyrics that, after his death, took on added poignancy.
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But viewed in the context of Linklater's obsession with time, these moments take on a kind of poignancy, because this kind of philosophizing is most common in adolescence and in college.
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Here his work in Sudan, as well as his photographic practice in general, gains even more poignancy, power and relevance as a new and dynamic dimension of his work is revealed.
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A music video for the first single, "Lazarus," showed him lying in a hospital bed with bandages across his eyes, and singing lyrics that after his death, took on added poignancy.
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Last season, the show continued its clever examination of narcissism and depression, but allowed some of its poignancy to get buried in a heap of animal puns and aimless plot lines.
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But he mostly sang with remarkable freshness and clarion tone, especially during Tristan's bursts of unhinged ardor, and brought touching poignancy to moments when he was transfixed by Isolde's rapturous love.
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This essay by M. H. Miller drives home with great poignancy how the effects of these debts can span generations, imperiling the finances and later lives of parents who backed loans.
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Such reflections of the elusiveness — and illusiveness — of human identity have acquired an unexpected and unwelcome poignancy since "Unknown Soldier" was first staged at the Williamstown Theater Festival, in Williamstown, Mass.
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Some days you want the epic sprawl of a "Game of Thrones," or the surprising ups and downs of "Wild Wild Country," or the slow poignancy of a British period drama.
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Stranger things have happened on this show, and clearly too much gore could've spoiled the poignancy of the scene, but it's not like "The Handmaid's Tale" to make anything look easy.
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Similarly, the preponderance of actors on this show who died not long after the shoot keeps adding a poignancy to the proceedings, which the creators are clearly exploiting — and not cheaply.
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And to add a touch of poignancy, Amanda's love of puzzles was passed down to her from her father Gilbert, which she wrote about when our puzzle was published in 2012.
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Unlike a lot of other Pixar shorts, this one isn't reaching for poignancy or profundity — it's content with just being very, very funny, and that it pulls off with flying colors.
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Many writers explored how technology and social media can both enable and frustrate emotional attachment, but none carried greater weight and poignancy than Ms. Leddy's essay about her missing older sister.
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Draper delights us, for instance, when he captures a moment of elegance or poignancy suspended in time, a moment so fleeting that we would never see it, except for the camera.
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But unpredictable notes of poignancy-going-on-doominess — whose verso can be a momentary touch of ecstasy — anchor the poem in unmistakable sincerity despite the accent on wit and sleight-of-hand.
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Faris' words are uplifting and unpretentious, anchored by a genuine appreciation for the couple's dedication to each other that, as of now, take on new poignancy within the context of their breakup.
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Unexpectedly, Mr. Efron has developed a sweet gift for highlighting the poignancy that undergirds his studmuffin persona; the women may lust after Teddy's body, but the movie relies mostly on his heart.
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Numbers like "That's Not Me," in which Mr. Wilson sings, "I once had a dream, so I packed up and split for the city," will take on added poignancy in New York.
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Standing by the newly excavated pond, surrounded by the poignancy of Ms. Kusama's hypnotic spheres, Ms. Shum gazed at the Glass House, the nearly transparent structure perched on a tree-lined rise.
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"Impressively photographed and perkily paced, Jason Filiatrault's story never droops quite as much as its lead character, injecting a welcome poignancy that tempers the cuteness," Jeannette Catsoulis wrote in her Times review.
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The poignancy of such stories has preoccupied Chang since he was a child, and so in 2012 he and several colleagues established the Chinese Railroad Workers in North America Project at Stanford.
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Yet as the novel advances, and this street stud pose starts splintering, the voice itself gathers a kind of dorky poignancy, the reader sensing an unseen wobble upon Green's stiff, pale lip.
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There was an unbearable poignancy to Blasey's nervousness, an implicit apology in her performance, one that combined a deep wish to be taken seriously with a sincere desire to get things right.
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In a phone interview with Mr. Teste (with Mr. Kurkdjian's occasional help translating from French), he noted that the movie's themes of domestic violence, incest and racism resonate with disturbing poignancy today.
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Beginning with lovemaking and ending in loneliness, the movie has an unexpected poignancy: At the end of the day, it seems, all a monster really wants is a girl of his own.
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Roy's depiction of Tilo and Musa's furtive romance in Kashmir has a cinematic quality — a reminder of her work as a screenwriter — as well as a genuine poignancy and depth of emotion.
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Monday's crash carried a wrenching poignancy: Twenty-eight months to the day of the deaths in Mississippi, seven Marines from the same company died in a helicopter crash off the Florida coast.
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It is the sound of a 47-year-old aesthete working at his own pace, dismantling his facade and reminding himself of all the natural poignancy that the bluster has been obscuring.
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Adding even more poignancy, the group was being inducted by Keith Urban, the man who jump-started the group's career when he invited the then-unknowns to open his tour 11 years ago.
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Photographer Jeff Vespa captures each word with all its poignancy, but it's the look of their faces as they recount their experiences that will stay with you long after you read this story.
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The abandoned airfield near Athens is a place so forlorn that simply placing a man in a black suit and bow tie in it makes me feel the poignancy of Greece's financial crisis.
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Advertise on Hyperallergic with Nectar Ads PARIS — Poignancy pervades A Working Eye, the first comprehensive retrospective of François Kollar's Constructivist-style photography that, through nuanced grays and deep blacks, dramatized French workers' empowerment.
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And there's a poignancy to her plea that accords with the current mood of much of that country, an inchoate sense that events you can't control call for some sort of radical action.
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The poignancy of the picture is filtered through hopefulness, for Goya's mastery conveys the realization that after its scene became a memory, the painter brushed the colors on his canvas with firm strokes.
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In power and poignancy, this segment of "Year One" is a match for end-of-the-world classics like Stephen King's "The Stand," Nevil Shute's "On the Beach" and the better zombie apocalypses.
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At the Commanding Officer's House, the poignancy of this gains a frisson of history — the ghosts of our American past that we keep trying to leave behind, and that painfully haunt us still.
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One lasting document from his time in Cleveland, still venerated for its delicate poignancy, was his solo turn in a recording of Brahms's Piano Concerto No. 2, with Leon Fleisher at the keyboard.
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Armstrong possessed a rare gift for fusing disparate types of music that moved him — he had command over the passion of blues, excitement of ragtime, and the poignancy of operatic and classical melodies.
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Trump's language was meant to add "power and poignancy" to a request to Congress for more funding for his signature border wall and additional resources to curb unauthorized immigration, his aides told reporters.
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The gender-neutral sounds of Dorsey, long a member of David Bowie's band, on "You Had Your Soul with You" brings clarity and poignancy to a song that might otherwise come across as terse.
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We've had Kendrick Lamar mixed with Mario Bros just to truly disarm the poignancy of those bars he crafted through blood and sweat for with the sound of Bowser's fire booming over the top.
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In "The Lonely City," we learn that she passed an agonizing stretch alone in New York after a bad breakup, which gives extra poignancy to her choice to write now about marriage and love.
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The puzzle of conversation on a first date Wong's also been interested in harnessing the power of wordless storytelling for the majority of his creative career, as proved through the poignancy of Monument Valley.
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That it's Elaine May who is giving life to Gladys's war against time lends an extra power and poignancy to "The Waverly Gallery," which opened on Thursday night under Lila Neugebauer's fine-tuned direction.
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Paul Buckmaster, whose orchestral arrangements brought power and poignancy to signature songs by David Bowie, Elton John, the Rolling Stones, Carly Simon and countless other rock, pop, country and jazz stars, died on Nov.
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Kelly's sharp self-observation and narrative poignancy make for a fascinating tale of a life lived on Earth, too, and the value of the book is heightened by its glimpses beyond the astronaut's veil.
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" Lines like "America when will you end the human war" and "America why are your libraries full of tears" resonate with a particular poignancy even today, as does "America when will you be angelic.
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This touching exhibition gains further poignancy by being among the last to be held in this building, home to many galleries over the years but now one of four adjacent structures slated for demolition.
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The story of Snyder's own thwarted athletic ambitions gives their bond a special poignancy; in a sense, Snyder is living through Owens, and Mr. Sudeikis's tough, heartfelt performance conveys the intensity of his personal investment.
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But if Robert's Rebellion and the War for the Seven Kingdoms really are both based on misdirections and lies, then his larger point gains even more poignancy: Much of that death didn't need to happen.
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Radha expresses herself in a lexicon of gestures — she indicates Krishna's sleep-heavy eyelids, for example — but it is her larger poignancy, so quietly and ruefully conveyed, that makes a deeper impression than any specific.
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But there was also a poignancy to the event: a few weeks earlier, it was announced that the show's run was going to be cut short because Ms. LuPone had to have hip replacement surgery.
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But it also gains a certain poignancy from pondering a question that many have thought about but few have fictionalized quite like the show has: Just how are these two still married to each other?
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Taraji P. Henson, Octavia Spencer and Janelle Monáe bring poise and poignancy to the unsung heroines of filmmaker Theodore Melfi's revealing tale (Available to stream via rent or purchase on Amazon Prime, Fandango Now and Vudu).
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While "Lazarus" and many other moments on the very recently released Blackstar will likely offer far more in the way of obvious poignancy, to me, "Where Are We Now?" is a far more heartbreaking final testimony.
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The poignancy of this fact—that memories transform with time—is a frequent source of inspiration for artists and designers, who have long grappled with how to best convey the tenuous relationship between reality and perception.
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Among the week's highlights: an unusual local delicacy, George twinning with Prince Harry, the cutest royal re-wear yet and the poignancy of a visit to a train carriage once used by his granny Queen Elizabeth.
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But Little Men is light on its feet, the film's quiet poignancy is held at a distance, as if Sachs and cowriter Mauricio Zacharias want to hold out hope that, just maybe, everything will work out.
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The universal humor and visual clarity comes together with the poignancy of a Dr. Seuss book, which might be why the UK-born, NYC-based artist is on track to release four picture books this summer.
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But the study reveals a paradox of some poignancy: no matter how elaborately articulated, no matter how high its ceilings and how dignified its servers, civil society can't protect cosmopolitan communities from assault when it happens.
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Escobar's desperate attempts to shield his children from the crisis at hand take on — dare I say — a poignancy that should tug at all parents who shield their kids from the harshness of the real world.
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A hammer harshly clinking against a pipe, with a bell providing the question mark, is answered by despairing deep thwacks of fists on a drum: Mr. Venables gives us wit, hostility and poignancy, all at once.
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In recent years I've read all the books by Maj Sjowall and Per Wahloo, who wrote "The Laughing Policeman," and especially loved Henning Mankells's Inspector Kurt Wallander, depicted with such depth and poignancy by Kenneth Branagh.
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What that means on this remix of Porter Robinson and Madeon's "Shelter"—the original of which already has poignancy to spare—is a Skrillex-indebted combination of pitch-shifted vocals, sparkling synthetic texture, and hyper-kinetic drops.
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Will and Phoebe seem to float through a world defined by its lack of moorings, and that is part of what lends poignancy to their desperate search for something, anything, around which they might organize their lives.
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And there's poignancy in the way David is ultimately pushed so far out of his daughter's personal life that he's relegated to searching publicly available hashtags and crime scene photos, as though he's just another public bystander.
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There is such poignancy in these futile devices, mounted stupidly on thin wood stands throughout the gallery, daring me to trip and break them — or maybe break off the stand and use it as a selfie-stick.
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That proposal seemed far-fetched, or at least premature, but there was poignancy to Mr. Netanyahu's reception in the United States — particularly as he prepared to return home to unkind headlines and a drumbeat not his own.
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Four years later, when "The Swimming-Pool Library" was published to critical and popular acclaim, the summer of 1983, during which much of the novel takes place, had acquired a similar poignancy to the summer of 1913.
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That Aesop should have come to this Northern Aegean island for freedom holds a special poignancy today, even if it is only myth, because Samos is now home to one of the largest refugee camps in Greece.
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In that fantasy and in this documentary, those four actresses recount life upon the stage, dish about husbands and lovers and gently tease one another, as the conversation ranges from chatty fun to moments of honest poignancy.
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After seeing it, I read the widely circulated A.O. Scott New York Times review of the film, which, perhaps unintentionally, conflates the lushness and poignancy of Baldwin with the documentary that draws on and flanks his words.
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An equally empowering anthem for victims of infidelity or pretty much any human misfortune, it surpasses last-call-peers like Montell Jordan's "This is How We Do It" and Bell Biv DeVoe's "Poison" in replay value and poignancy.
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It all started when Twitter user AlmostJT pointed out the simple poignancy in a pic of Arthur's tightly clenched fist: This is just a pic of Arthur's fist but idk how I feel that it's just so relatable.
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Against the backdrop of the refugee crisis in Europe, the testimonials — which appeared in 2014 in the New Museum's "Here and Elsewhere" exhibition of contemporary art from the Arab world — seem only to have gained depth and poignancy.
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Though I prefer the piano original, which exults in steely colors and incisive attacks, the orchestral version draws out the inner richness, even poignancy, of the music, especially as performed here by Mr. Thomas and his dynamic orchestra.
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Dean Corren Burlington, Vt. Taking Care James Marcus's recollections of his father's final months illustrate the pain, the poignancy, and the all-around helplessness of witnessing the suffering and decline of a loved one ("Blood Relations," March 11th).
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They believed character was more important than plot, wrote pauses into the action to let audiences linger over ambiguities and poignancy, and thought that scripts should aspire to literature and that films should carry the weight of novels.
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Alive though it may be, there's a sense in which it's funeral music for the American 20th century; they're tracks that take on a disturbing poignancy now that the past is being desecrated and sold off for parts.
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I wanted to find out how Husney first came across the diminutive, driven teen, and how For You finally came to fruition—all of which takes on a fresh and painful poignancy in the wake of Prince's sudden passing.
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Ms. Harvey doesn't hold back in displaying Boo's frowning disapproval of nearly everyone but brings out the poignancy of Boo's frustration in feeling shut out of the family business and burdened with a daughter, Lala, who can't function successfully.
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We, along with Maggie and Sasha, visit their fresh graves in this episode, and there is even a brief moment of poignancy until Gregory blunders in to remind us all, in the broadest possible strokes, that he is garbage.
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That the massacre took place as Pride events unfold in glitter and sweat from coast to coast, in a city with one of the largest Puerto Rican populations in the country, adds more poignancy than the heart can stand.
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As the daughters of great men go, Jamie Bernstein has had a happy fate: the existence of this well-written book, with its poignancy and its shuddery detail—her father's fragrance in the morning—is a mark of sanity and survival.
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At this point, Richard doesn't know that Erlich sold his stock to Laurie Bream the night before the platform's triumphant launch, which adds an almost childlike poignancy to Erlich's plight, as if he's hiding a bad report card from his parents.
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Yet at times, he offered a tantalizing promise of something more, conjuring moments of poignancy, as when he honored a World War II veteran and a Nazi concentration camp inmate the veteran helped liberate, together in the first lady's box.
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On reflection, even those who still feel disappointed or betrayed may recognize the poignancy in the tale of a coach who spent 15 years trying to fulfill his dream, only for it to fall apart in less than five months.
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This is the first movie he's starred in since "Trouble With the Curve" (2012), and he seems papery, fragile, which gives the movie a wistful poignancy that has nothing to do with the story and everything to do with Eastwood.
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It is the height of poignancy to read a military intelligence report on Fort Bliss from 1947, when there were concerns about the lax security that allowed the self-described "prisoners of peace" to cross the border to party in Juarez.
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Her glorious new work, "Dance Nation," which opened on Tuesday evening at Playwrights Horizons, conjures the passionate ambivalence of early adolescence with such being-there sharpness and poignancy that you're not sure whether to cringe, cry or roar with happiness.
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Still, director Hettie Macdonald keeps the story moving at a reasonable clip -- allowing for the fact that part of "Howards End's" appeal is luxuriating in the period costumes and ravishing country vistas -- and the poignancy of Forster's finishing twist remains undiminished.
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The show has earned plenty of acclaim for its poignancy and emotional nuance as BoJack, voiced by Will Arnett, and his friends—like Amy Sedaris's Princess Caroline and Alison Brie's Diane Nguyen—navigate the bleakest parts of fame, feelings, and adulthood.
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By simultaneously celebrating a wondrous landscape and the evocativeness of paint, Green folds an aching poignancy into his work, that as if acknowledging that mankind seems determined to go in the other direction because they smell profit rather than see beauty.
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Rather than treating the festival as an experience to be factually documented, Lyndon focuses on unexpected juxtapositions—between architectural shapes, interesting textures, and all sorts of tiny details—often pulling them out of their mundane contexts to create particular moments of poignancy.
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But even this number ends before it can arrive anywhere new, and unlike Mr. Glover's train solo in "Bring in 'da Noise," it lacks poignancy, the sense of a black man leaving his Southern home for who knows what in the North.
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Denial captures the epiphany of adulthood's anticlimax: a study, weighted equally by wit and poignancy (though never self-pity), of the free-fall between losing your innocence and reclaiming your self-respect, losing your faith and grasping for something, anything to replace it.
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For men, it added a layer of nobility, even virility; for women it meant senescence, the end of fertility and thus usefulness — there could be beauty, but with a note of poignancy: Oh, she must have been lovely when she was young!
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To wit: the fulsomely padded body stocking that is being modeled with flair and poignancy by Zainab Jah in the title role of Suzan-Lori Parks's "Venus," which opened in a patchy revival on Monday night at the Pershing Square Signature Center.
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This erosion leads us back to the posthumous eradication of the enemy, to the elimination of his memory in the light of our now infallible judgments about a past we know so little about that we cannot see the poignancy on all sides.
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Anyone who has read the original novel, published in 2016, will recognize Strout's clear, layered voice in Munro's script, the poignancy in what Lucy leaves out and the bravery of what she puts in, the hope in her account of becoming a writer.
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This thoroughgoing entertainment is garnished with descriptions both delightful (a car painted "a creamy pink that you could eat with a spoon") and less so (a "guy sitting behind the steering wheel like a tall drink of water") and a slowly accumulating poignancy.
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Grinning wide-eyed at this strange land where they had been sent, often against their will, in circumstances they did not fully understand, with little foreboding of what might be in store, their photographs of ordinary wartime days have a special poignancy.
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The detailed descriptions of the wind's nightmarish, destructive force give the whole thing a realistic, could-this-actually-happen vibe which makes the story constantly tense, and the relationship between the main character and the pregnant woman he's helping adds an undercurrent of poignancy.
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Caroline Framke: I know you're into the travel agency drama for the pep talks and line dancing breaks, Todd, but man, trust The Americans to bring an extra level of poignancy to the death of the travel agency business and shut my skeptical mouth!
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Unlike the edifices dedicated to more recent or more beloved presidents, a visitor can stroll through the life of our nation's 31st chief executive without anyone else around, lending poignancy to Hoover's experience as the man widely blamed for failing to prevent the Great Depression.
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A crackdown by the authorities in Bahrain, where a Sunni dynasty holds sway over a majority Shia population, lent poignancy to part of the proceedings in Oslo: the award of an annual prize for "creative dissent" to Aayat Alqormozi, a brave young Bahraini poet.
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When he told us about Bowie first ringing him to say he had cancer but that his cheekbones had never looked better, the dark comic poignancy of those words destroyed all the bad work we'd been watching, and suddenly we were back in the room.
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No longer was kitsch simply a synonym for tacky, tawdry, vulgar, and cheap: it's come to define an artistic style imbued with vigor, tenderness, and poignancy, delivered with a technical expertise reminiscent of Old Masters and directly rejecting the shiny aesthetic conventions of modernism.
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The counterpoint F.B.I. scenes had their own poignancy, as Agent Gaad contemplated the end of his career and jumped on one final grenade in defense of Stan Beeman, who had angered a deputy attorney general by refusing to blackmail Oleg for information about Martha.
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The solace and poignancy found inside Marling and Batmanglij's ballsy narrative choices was the magic of "The OA." And that trust — plus asking fans to be earnest and vulnerable and willing to suspend disbelief — is the exact fuel that carries this "Part III" theory.
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She is preceded in her lyrical practice by songwriters like Paul Simon, Bob Dylan, Liz Phair, and Craig Finn, of the Hold Steady—artists who find clever and effective ways to turn arcane impressions into narrative fodder, thus revealing the strange poignancy in minutiae.
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This idea is initially not without a certain self-lacerating poignancy coming from Mr. Audi, 60, and Mr. Baselitz, 80, whose globby neo-expressionism is the subject of a current retrospective at the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden in Washington, D.C. But it goes nowhere.
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Sitting in my comfy red-eye cocoon at 35,000 feet reading of his agonies on the ice, and of his even more agonizing decision to call for help so near the end of his walk, the poignancy of Worsley's story brought tears to my eyes.
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" Still, in an America where the mothers of murdered black children lead protest rallies around the country, it's hard to miss the poignancy of a Mahogany Mother's Day card that reads, "I know it must have been tough raising a son in this world.
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"T2" doesn't just recapture the relentlessly addictive energy of the first film, complete with profane language, outrageous sex and drug scenes and horrific bouts of violence, it displays a greater maturity too; one that lends it unexpected poignancy to match its more bravura moments.
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The delicacy of the glass and the tenderly physical, fundamental necessity of the substance itself circle back to the human experience in an unsettling conflation of poignancy and absurdity: there is a deep imbalance in the horrifying historical power of so banal an object.
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Now, his performance as Karadashian — growing horrified by the preponderance of blood evidence and the shameless maneuvering of Simpson's "dream team" of attorneys, and increasingly haunted by the probable reality behind the violent death of his friend Nicole — has brought an unexpected poignancy to the proceedings.
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"There's a certain kind of poignancy in young adulthood, when we've come to develop a mature regard for friends at the very same time that somehow they've started slipping away," said William Rawlins, an Ohio University professor who has been researching friendship for nearly 220 years.
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The overwhelming poignancy of this film resides in the intimate tenor of the artist's voice as he speaks to his sister in voiceover, the constancy of natural processes, and the material reality of trees grown from the ground fertilized by the victims of a brutal regime.
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Considering that the very first man to stand — undisputed — at the North Pole having traveled there over the frozen Arctic Ocean did so in 28500 adds extra poignancy to the fact that the last successful ski expedition to the North Pole from land took place in 6900.
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Recorded with the Bill Charlap Trio, "Love Is Here to Stay," a collection of George and Ira Gershwin gems, finds Ms. Krall and Mr. Bennett mining the playfulness and poignancy of the songs with a lovely, relaxed rapport that never takes each other's artistry for granted.
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"Like that storied novella by Truman Capote from which it stems," Mr. Weiler wrote, "it is a completely unbelievable but wholly captivating flight into fancy composed of unequal dollops of comedy, romance, poignancy, funny colloquialisms and Manhattan's swankiest East Side areas captured in the loveliest of colors."
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Christopher Wheeldon's "After the Rain Pas de Deux" came off as insipid — without the rest of the ballet, it loses whatever poignancy it might have; "Vespers," by Ulysses Dove, and "The Hunt," by the company's artistic director, Robert Battle, were calculated in their shallow presentation of force.
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It's uncanny to grasp that the print is over 22013 years old, that the softness of the paper still conveys with such poignancy the hardness of the stone, that the photographer personally glimpsed this scene on the back of a heavy camera in the midst of the Mexican jungle.
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"One of our most talented biographers and historians, Maraniss has used his prodigious research skills to produce a story that leaves one aching with its poignancy, its finely wrought sense of what was lost, both in his home and in our nation," Kevin Baker writes in his review.
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Whereas the guilt of other participants, including Cicotte, Williams, shortstop Swede Risberg, and first baseman Chick Gandil (the fix's originator and a kind of Second City Hal Chase), is clear, the ambiguous position of Jackson does add poignancy to Weaver's ambivalence about his own knowledge or lack thereof.
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That the gallery happens to be in a space that was once a private home (and can easily be converted back into one) holds a special poignancy; there is a sense of the serenity that comes from living with art, which is absent from larger, more intentional and streamlined venues.
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It may be that it's still more socially acceptable for a woman, for Clinton in particular, to lay claim to that kind of achievement at a time when she has simultaneously been humbled; every ecstatic, inspirational touch point in that speech was moderated by a profound sense of overall poignancy.
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It's as perfect and diverse an example of the Martian landscape as one could hope for, and the false-color image (the flatter true-color version is here) has a special otherworldly beauty to it, which is only added to by the poignancy of this being the rover's last shot.
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A winner of two Pulitzer Prizes in journalism and one of our most talented biographers and historians, Maraniss has used his prodigious research skills to produce a story that leaves one aching with its poignancy, its finely wrought sense of what was lost, both in his home and in our nation.
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Still, the interviews yield scattered moments of poignancy, from a desert resident who believes his dead daughter is watching him from a star to a scientist who ruminates on celestial bodies' distance and the hundreds or thousands of years that pass before what happens to them is visible on Earth.
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Without notes and with a poignancy that brought some of his listeners to tears, he made a case for those who have demanded an end to police brutality and racial inequity, without directly mentioning those athletes who have taken a knee during the national anthem or groups like Black Lives Matter.
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There are moments of genuine poignancy, for instance when Sdoia is reunited with Salter after an internet campaign helps track him down or when Sdoia is discharged from a rehabilitation hospital and met in the lobby by Materia, Cottone, Salter and a gaggle of caregivers before being escorted home by firefighters.
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Political songs can so often be heavy-handed but Dave's "Question Time" (below) is delivered with such poignancy and at such a specific moment in time, to listen to it is to hear the ghosts of the country, their families—their anger and frustration—all coming together, coalescing in Dave's voice.
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As funny as Mr. Godard's claim that he's recently moved to Reykjavik, Iceland, to be closer to great chess is, his near prediction of what would become, in his own life and practice, a larger isolation from the ostensible center of French filmmaking here speaks to a disillusionment that has a genuine poignancy.
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On Saturday night, Osaka fully faced and embraced the poignancy of a very different situation, persuading Gauff to share the postmatch interview on court after their third-round match so that the teenager could process her disappointment and speak directly to the thousands of fans who had shown her so much support.
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The New Colossus' poignancy is certainly helped by Real, Actual Nazis feeling more comfortable being public about their views, but absent that really upsetting context, we'd still be left with a shooter that, for once, actually engages with Nazi ideology, instead of using their obvious badness to construct easy bad guys to mow down.
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As Prince Hal matures, revealing that his youthful follies in low company were, in part, a mere pose designed to make his transformation into a responsible prince dazzle the more brightly, Mr. Sher draws out Falstaff's piteous poignancy, even as he makes fine sport of his more repellent qualities: his bottomless cowardice and greed.
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There is a poignancy in the book, with its welter of acronyms (enough to require a key at the front of book) referring to programs that were ardently cherished at the time but by now forgotten — APOB, CAA, DNS, MFY, R&R, YIA, CHIP (which was something other than today's health insurance program for children).
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There's almost a weird poignancy to the way the world has started to change, started to recognize the pain of those who survive sexual harassment and assault, while the Paddy's gang's attitudes remain, effectively, those of juvenile 20-somethings who think the most shocking thing you could do is call a woman a bitch and then chortle about it.
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TONY POWELLNiagara-on-the-Lake, Canada As a longtime reader of The Economist, I have often been moved by the Obituary column, but I was astonished to find myself weeping over the death of the Okjökull glacier in Iceland, a response triggered as much by the beauty of the writing as the poignancy of the event.
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Rotten Tomatoes rating: 20%Starring: Mads Mikkelsen, Vanessa Hudgens, Katheryn Winnick, Matt Lucas"Polar is pure trash, but the generousness — and, in the final stretch, the poignancy — with which Mikkelsen approaches even the most lurid of the film's conceits at least pushes it toward the top of the garbage heap," wrote Keith Uhlich for The Hollywood Reporter.
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The power of the bathing scene arises not simply from the poignancy of the action it depicts (the son now caring for the father who once cared for him) but also from the way in which, after a relentless sequence of increasingly hostile exchanges, it provides a kind of release valve for an accumulation of complicated, contradictory emotions — Nader's and our own.
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Like most of Hamilton's political songs, it has picked up some additional poignancy under the Trump administration (imagine, a leader turning away from power willingly!), and Jackson's voice is as buttery smooth as ever as he riffs on Washington's final lines, with the Voices of America Youth Choir wailing away on the background harmonies and music director Lacamoire on the piano.
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But after Jimmy proves the illness is all in his head (by having Breaking Bad carryover Huell nimbly plant a cell phone battery in Chuck's pocket), the final shot gains added poignancy: Chuck not only continues to feel the imagined pain of the exit sign, but also the actual pain of what his brother has done to him in front of trusted friends and colleagues.
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Smarter way to describe it: It's a show with a more sophisticated conceit than that—one that's dedicated less to a cloying plot device (meant to extend the show into perpetuity forever and drive viewers insane), and instead one with a hilarious (but believable) plot device designed to elucidate poignancy where the agony and ecstasy of trying to negotiate a life between romanticism and reality is concerned.
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But as the war drums thump and sabres rattle around the world, and the threat of nuclear war looms over us once again, you'd be hard pressed not to appreciate the poignancy and hellish symmetry of Crass founder Penny Rimbaud's decision to tackle Wilfred Owen's poetry—spoken-word style—to mark the centenary of the First World War for an album, What Passing Bells, and a series of live performances.
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B PLUS Zomba Prison Project: "I Will Not Stop Singing" (Six Degrees) Where the first album of prison recordings from dirt-poor Malawi showcased solo singing whose poignancy was diminished by non-English lyrics, here there's considerable band music by inmates you just know are planning for or dreaming of the outside, and will you ever root for them (Vincent Saulos, "I Am Done With Evil"; Thomas Ganisani, "Everything Has an Owner") ***
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And writing of beacons, it's important to note that the famous quote often attributed to Confucius and used by Adlai Stevenson upon Eleanor Roosevelt's death — "It is better to light a single candle than to curse the darkness" — resounds with added poignancy when remembered in conjunction with the final scene in director Gus Van Sant's 2008 biofilm, "Milk," when 30,000 people are depicted coming out to honor Milk at night with candles following his death.
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" There is goose-pimpling writing about Terry Gross ("demotic ur-parent, Catcher in the WHYY"), envy ("You need people well enough informed to understand just how enviable you are"), and the odd poignancy of The New York Review of Books, which "continued to devote such good minds and scholarship to what after five minutes in the desert sun, driving with the top down by imitation-adobe strip malls full of nail salons and smoothie shops and physical therapy outlets, was almost painfully irrelevant.
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I could name so many other scenes that were so deeply, authentically DF, and that captured a distinct strain of fearlessness running through the people there — the scene at the country retreat with the fires, with kids and adults pitching in to put out flames, creating no doubt significant anxiety for risk-averse American viewers ... But on another level of poignancy, I just found the tenderness, intimacy, and gentleness of the relationship between Cleo and the kids to be absolutely extraordinary.
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