Word: poignant
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...event, which attracted an audience of different ages and ethnicities, combined humorous and poignant performance pieces to increase cultural awareness and activism in aid expeditions to Southeast Asian countries...
Many movies have made violence into art, from the slow-motion bullet ballets of John Woo’s work to the historically poignant impact of Saving Private Ryan. In Sin City, Rodriguez and Miller use a constant stream of savagery to support the movie’s black humor and artful cinematography. Watching the characters “kill their way to the truth” in this film is like pushing Dwight’s car the last half mile of its trip. Cinematic violence can be a high-octane but painfully inefficient fuel, and viewers not thrilled...
Many movies have made violence into art, from the slow-motion bullet ballets of John Woo’s work to the historically poignant impact of Saving Private Ryan. In Sin City, Rodriguez and Miller use a constant stream of savagery to support the movie’s black humor and artful cinematography. Watching the characters “kill their way to the truth” in this film is like pushing Dwight’s car the last half mile of its trip. Cinematic violence can be a high-octane but painfully inefficient fuel, and viewers not thrilled...
...accuser and the accused make a poignant pair. Both have attested to physical abuse by their fathers. And both cried out for a gentle touch. Jurors will decide which of the two is to be believed: the one who is a child or the one who thinks he still...
...questions--for the word's definition and for the word to be used in a sentence--but they rise or fall on their own spelling skills.) Yet what's so winning about the show is how these dysfunctional teens grow on us through the evening and become poignant object lessons in the hazards and rewards of our driven, elimination-tournament culture...