Word: poignant
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Dillon is suffering from the particular pain of being an artist, and the even more poignant and particular pain of not being a good one. "What is worse," he says, than the "disease" of talent...
...artlessness with which Author del Castillo achieves a child's angle of vision makes his boy-hero Tanguy one of the most endearing and poignant figures in recent fiction. Child of Our Time is both a grim and a grand commentary on the human condition. The first response to this book is elemental-to weep. The second response is to marvel that Michel del Castillo endured what he did, and that, having endured, he could still forgive so much that is eternally unforgivable...
...Dark at the Top of the Stairs, by William (Bus Stop) Inge, is both poignant and funny as it reveals the secret fears of a small-town family in the 1920s; with Teresa Wright, Pat Hingle and Eileen Heckart...
...detail to the author's remembered life"-links Nabokov to an episode in the life of the notorious Humbert Humbert, Lolita's nymphet-chasing hero. In the story, the narrator is smitten by a cute little nymphetease on the beach at Biarritz-but it is only a poignant little saga of puppy love quickly brought to an end by the boy's tutor. Nabokov's Dozen lacks Lolita's pun-prone pyrotechnics. But it shares with it Nabokov's fascinating gift for translating the machine-tooled commonplaces of U.S. life into a surreal landscape...
...Poignant" has been a bad word ever since Walter Winchell found theatrical producers would quote him in their advertisements if he used it. Yet it's hard to describe this drama, which treads the edge of melodrama with such sure steps, in any other way. People have come to expect from O'Neill the thundering savagery of fallen men in conflict with themselves. But A Touch of the Poet belongs to two women and their story is a fragile...