Word: poignant
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...recent weeks,” Marietta sings about the beauty of the sunset and the sadness of a love that has been lost, reminding the listener that, “love will not part us, we will meet again.” Fleming’s selection was poignant, and was sung with the lilting beauty of a mature love. There was a note of sweetness, too, in this sorrow song, a healing recognition of the love one has had, and will have again...
...United We Run,” captured the spirit of the event. Never, perhaps, has the image of 30,000—Canadians, Ethiopians, and New Yorkers among them—running in one swift motion, under the invisible shadow of two great landmarks, been so strikingly poignant...
...addresses any concerns that the band have gone soft in their later years. And when Sumner muses about young love and its indiscretions on “Close Range” or “Someone Like You,” it comes across as sentimental yet poignant, whereas most younger vocalists sound naïve and childish when broaching the same subject. New Order may be 20 years into a career, but thanks to hiatus nearly a decade long, they return energetic and fresh, exemplified by the ripping guitar chorus of “Rock the Shack...
...dangerous, an archetype that appears only briefly onscreen. But it is as TK, Gabriel’s wife, that she shines. She is tough and sensitive, the yin to Li’s yang. Her eyes convey love and her lips, passion, making the marital relationship so real, so poignant. The romantic angle of the typical action movie is often the most neglected and the most clichéd. But the scriptwriters take great pains to flesh out their relationship, and it is Gugino more than anyone else who makes that relationship so touching. As Gabriel wistfully declares...
...begins “Reunion,” a humorous yet poignant musical chronicling those four Harvard years and the permanent crimson tint they add to one’s post-college life perspective. Dr. Philip Carl ’61, the lyricist, Dan Kline ’61, the book writer, and Stephen Price ’61, the composer, collaborated on this commerative work for their Class of 1961’s 40th Reunion last weekend. The musical was included in the Second Annual Festival of New Works for the Musical Stage, co-sponsored by New Opera...