Word: poignant
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...role in the epochal events in her life--her marriage to the most famous man on earth, the "Crime of the Century," blazing air routes, the debate over America's isolationism. Because she considered no experience complete until she had written about it, she left us with volumes of poignant diaries and the landmark Gift from the Sea (1955), which speaks to one generation of women after another. Alas, within a few years of my meeting her, she began declining physically and mentally. In 1995, at a Lindbergh Foundation reception, Anne Lindbergh made a rare public appearance. Cameras and people...
...mangled car after learning it was still driveable. This time he hit the wall and didn't move. But for Earnhardt, at 49, to die at the top of his sport and the height of his popularity, on NASCAR's biggest stage? That may be as good, and as poignant, as sport gets, even if sports fans generally like their life-and-death struggles a little more on the metaphorical side. And by Monday morning everybody in America had gotten a taste...
...memorial books. One lists the dead in flowing script, another records their personal histories. Pilgrims who come to this silent, haunting place have also left signed photographs behind, mostly of children, or notes in the visitors' book. "John Michael Ahern. rip. Always in our hearts. Love, Dad," was one poignant entry last month for the 26-year-old from New York who loved skiing...
...That one accident sparked a great amount of concern here in our office," McCready says. "With a poignant, tragic occurrence like that, it opens people's minds about doing something, but this is one issue which the city and University are always concerned with...
...film Zhang is extending this ability to create a new form of action scene: rhythmic, poignant and majestic. Yen, whose working relationship with Li goes back a decade, sees that. He's fresh off success in the U.S. where Yuen Wo-ping's 1993 classic Iron Monkey, in which Yen plays a lead, was rereleased by Miramax and made $10 million at the box office. He applauds Zhang's command of a new style: "For a guy who has never directed action, he's got a nuance for certain pauses, certain breaks. He never stops looking at the bigger picture...