Word: poignant
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Felix Dzerzhinsky, chairman of the Supreme Soviet Economic Council, emitted last week a poignant wail...
...remarkable success achieved by Austin Strong in this play may be equally attributed to the poignant mixture of humor and a little patnos in his characters of the Parisian underworld, and to a highly trained and sympathetic group of players. The part, circumstances, and events form an adequate, if not a completely convincing framework, and for the first two acts at least the action is dynamic. The problem, if one exists at all, is a bewildering combination of theology, various kinds of complexes including the inferiority type, and the power of suggestion. If taken seriously it is ineffectual...
...stage as it was, scores of popular songs now forgotten?or almost so. To anyone over 35 it will bring a renewed sense' of the progress he has forgotten, of the things for which he lived in days only a little gone by?a feeling at once poignant and a bit sad to see how completely yesterday has vanished...
...This is the plot of Theodore Dreiser's 'An American Tragedy' in two volumes, a work occasionally poignant, occasionally intense in its realism, often deadly dull, usually a monotonous narative of everything that happened in the course of Clyde Griffiths' short, worthless, and almost meaningless life...
YOUNG WOODLEY - Glenn Hunter giving a poignant picture of a very young man in love with a married woman...