Word: poignant
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Last year’s World Cup provided perhaps the most poignant example. It was fun to be in Cambridge during the event. Harvard students, by American standards, are unusually knowledgeable about soccer—it is the world’s game, after all—and students from abroad were rooting passionately for their national teams...
...movie stars were light-skinned; those that weren't often played comic or villainous relief. But unlike Hollywood, Mexico didn't ignore the race issue. And in Joselito Rodriguez' Angelitos Negros (Little Black Angels), the prejudice of the invaders toward the natives, or anyone with native blood, is crucial, poignant and bizarre. Its script, by Rogelio A. González (from a play by the Cuban Felix B. Caignet), has to be recounted in a little detail to believed. After hearing it, you may still be incredulous...
...while Elmore’s acting was poignant, Sullivan’s was a blast...
...Winston called “floating the balloon”—applying the tools and tricks that “will give a speech life and lift once you have the basic message and theme.” Those strategies range from humor to props, rhetorical devices, poignant quotes, stirring anecdotes, and cultural references. “You’re rhetorical Doctor Frankensteins,” she told students. Participants filled the IOP conference room to capacity, diligently scribbling and typing notes. “Demand [for attendance] was very high,” according to special...
...field, its links with mysticism and Freudian theory have repelled others like a bad odor. Everybody dreams and most people talk about theirs now and again. But once, as children, we learn to distinguish these delusions from reality, dreams usually become no more than a sideshow, sometimes disturbing, occasionally poignant, but mostly something to be forgotten, quickly and completely, if they were remembered in the first place...