Word: poignant
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...Shockey show just how hard it is to really change the way things are done on Capitol Hill. Granted, many lobbyists chase pork and members of Congress regularly exchange favors with webs of family and ex-aides. But Shockey's straddling of K Street and Capitol Hill is particuarly poignant and visible-even if, as in most cases, his lawyer and spokesman say it is all perfectly legal...
...Harvard in 2003, has a talent for rendering the indirectness of personal relationships and interactions, but his skills are better reserved for poetry where silence and reticence work in tandem with a writer’s style. In “Utterly Monkey,” these awkward but poignant episodes are overwhelmed by the preposterous plot. For more than just the facts, try Laird’s first volume of poems “To a Fault,” or, better still, try his wife Zadie Smith’s debut novel “White Teeth...
...fluffy for such a comparison. In terms of tweaking the romantic comedy to accommodate modern notions of love, “Imagine” is rather sub-par. If the writing were crisper and Perabo just a little more compelling, then perhaps this romantic comedy would have been humorously poignant. Instead, it relies upon hackneyed romantic comedy techniques and that damn song “Happy Together...
...chocolates and a long stemmed rose, but five of his songs were inducted into the Canadian Songwriters Hall of Fame on Sunday. The gala event, which honored Cohen and seven other songwriters and performers, included performances of his music by Rufus Wainwright, Willie Nelson and k.d. lang, a poignant tribute by former Governor General Adrienne Clarkson and a wildly enthusiastic standing ovation. Cohen, 71, who was moved to tears by the event, told TIME the next day that he hadn't quite recovered from it. "It was so overwhelmingly emotional. It happens very rarely in anybody's life to receive...
...wake of the 1960s with competing urges for independence and intimacy. It was familiar ground for the Tony winner who, resisting pleas from her parents, remained steadfastly single. She gave birth at 48 and chronicled her daughter's premature delivery and months in a neonatal ICU in an achingly poignant essay, "Days of Awe." Although the warmth and humor in her work often camouflaged its weightiness, she was also angry, intensely private and political--a contradiction that drove such characters as Heidi, the single professor who in the end adopts a child and openly mourns her personal sacrifices...