Word: poignant
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...becomes a God/father metaphor to the emotionally crippled title character. Then Ware kills Superman too--or at least a man in a Superman suit, who, in a single bound, leaps to his death from a tall building in a scene, witnessed by Jimmy, that sets the tale's poignant, darkly comic tone...
...along with the six other nuclear submarines, four of them Russian, that have sunk in the age of the atom. The double steel hull of the Kursk will provide some containment for the reactors, which are encased in heavy, steel pressure vessels. The submarine would provide a grim and poignant memorial for the 118 sailors who served, and died, onboard...
...most poignant moments of his speech, Lieberman recounted how Stamford embraced his grandmother, an immigrant from Central Europe...
...deny my own voyeuristic fascination as I scroll down through the choices of men being offered one final moment of the "freedom" to be a consumer. Their choices, as diverse, poignant and sometimes just plain wacky as they are, offer clues to their identities and character. But perhaps that fascination is simply a kind of "desert island discs" game that calls on the reader to consider his or her own menu for a final meal. But even more fascinating than the contents of the site, perhaps, is the decision by the folks down at Huntsville to post this information...
...find him later teaching a gymnastics class for the disabled, whom he identifies with because of his attention-deficit disorder. The unwritten rule of TV's teen portrayals is that they must be cautionary tales, all sex and guns and social decay. Cutler set out instead to capture a poignant crossroads--"when you're a kid, rushing to grow up, and an adult, hanging on to the last vestiges of childhood." High dares, subversively, to find decency in its children of suburban comfort, from Morgan to soulful jock Robby to Kaytee, a winsome songwriter with a defensive ironic streak...