Word: poignant
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...will ?create a fresh example for humanity.? As you know from history, the Europeans were not immune from greed when they landed on this continent; and Smith?s aboriginal love story was to have a third character, the tobacco planter John Rolfe (Christian Bale). Malick doesn?t tell this poignant tale so much as he shows it. And what a show! Managing to make an epic film on an indie budget ($35 million), shooting in natural light - and, praise be, on the original Virginia terrain, not in Romania or New Zealand - Malick dramatizes the cultural collision with images of rapturous...
...pets, emotions, ex-boyfriends, whatever. (Of dogs: "We have three. When the doorbell rings, they all go berzerk [sic]. They do this even if someone rings a doorbell on TV.") Barry bares her demons--"Dancing," "Girlness" and "Hate" also make appearances--in a book of gorgeous, hilarious, weirdly poignant comic strips/short stories. You might find a few of yours here...
...compare to her past work. None of the new songs have the sensuality of “La Tortura,” the energy of “Objection (The Tango),” the pounding bass of “Whenever, Wherever,” or even the poignant expression of “Underneath Your Clothes.”Shakira would have benefited from including the better songs from “Vol. I” along with the strong work of “Vol. II.” Instead of two partially realized halves, she would...
...Honor After the Fall," your photo essay on Marine Major Steve Beck and his mission of notifying families of the loss of a loved one in Iraq [Nov. 21], was one of the most powerful and poignant stories I've ever read in TIME. I wiped away tears trying to imagine the pain and loss felt by the families of the fallen. I was also struck by the professional and compassionate way in which Beck notified and supported those families. I respect and admire him for performing that incredibly difficult but sadly necessary assignment...
...finds it necessary to negotiate compromises with its own values." That negotiation--also carried out in the increasingly troubled mind of Avner Kauffman, leader of the Israeli hit squad on which the movie concentrates (there were several)--raises Spielberg's film above the thriller level, granting it real, often poignant, distinction...