Word: poignant
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...Many of the young people echoed an appreciation for the clarity and candidness of Benedict's sermons. His explanation Sunday for how the Eucharist was born in the death of Jesus is both plain and poignant. "What is happening? How can Jesus distribute his Body and his Blood? By making the bread into his Body and the wine into his Blood, he anticipates his death, he accepts it in his heart and he transforms it into an action of love. What on the outside is simply brutal violence, from within becomes an act of total self-giving love." Still, however...
Even the real life warfare allusions are clichéd and ridiculous. Not only are Russia and North Korea on the radar first, but Cumming’s tough “I expect nothing less than perfection” stance is countered by Wade’s poignant remark about combat: “If it’s controlled by moral people it will be moral.” Right...
...also received two poignant pieces in memory of Paul F. Gilligan ’05, which you can read on the opposite page. Although we planed on printing only postcards this summer, we have decided to publish these two pieces because of the exceptional tragedy of the past week. We hope they are a fitting tribute to a person who was loved by so many...
...character is a fantasist who keeps publishing to small sales and critical silence. Unable to bear the inattention any longer, he commits suicide, and in that moment his fantasy world is transferred to the mind of one previously condescending friend. Or, as Rendell puts it in the story's poignant final lines, which perhaps should be read as her own cri de coeur, "He reached his audience, he reached his audience at last." --By William A. Henry...
...Soviet hearts during a twoweek tour arranged after she sent a letter to Andropov expressing her fears of nuclear war. The Kremlin quickly made her a symbol of the desire of many U.S. citizens to end the nuclear-arms race. That symbol clearly grew all the more poignant--and powerful--with her tragically early death...