Word: poignant
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Layla Cable says she feels a similar nagging regret of a missed opportunity at friendship, particularly after hearing poignant anecdotes from Jenkins’ friends at the Monday night service...
...radios, alarm clocks and scooters—are usually used as signs of affluence and prosperity. Such props have precedent, as umbrellas—usually seen as a symbol of European pragmatism—can be seen in some of the 14 early postcards on display. The most poignant of these images is Sidibé’s 1972 “Les jeunes berges Peuhls,” or “Peuhl Shepherds and a Radio,” where the ancient occupation of shepherding is juxtaposed with the modern technology of a radio...
...back page goes, the line of the “Star Spangled Banner” that mentions the light from the battle giving “proof through the night that our flag was still there” now has a more poignant meaning. The presence of sports will serve as one form of proof that America and its way of life will continue...
This is not your mother's feminism. Ensler is a self-confessed survivor of sexual and physical abuse by her father and of drugs and alcohol. Yet she does not think women should be stuck with the role of victim. Instead, The Vagina Monologues is a joyous, sometimes poignant and often hilarious exploration of women's conflicted feelings about their vaginas. The play--which has been known to propel women in the audience to their feet, whooping and stomping in recognition--has been performed from Antarctica to Zaire. It is currently playing in more than 25 countries and is almost...
There will be another component, also—one more poignant, more personal and more important than the structural damage—to our memory of the violence. We will remember last words of telephone conversations cut off at the moment of the blast; stories of wheelchairs and their occupants wedged in narrow stairways, and the running bodies who could only hope to escape themselves; the words of a battered, bruised colossus of a firefighter sobbing, “I tried to save them all—but I couldn’t”; ghostly figures, caked...