Word: poignant
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...McEwan shares with Annalena McAfee, his second wife, an arts editor at the Guardian newspaper. Located on a neo-classical square laid out by Robert Adam, it also faces onto the British Telecom Tower, a '60s-era spike. Perowne lives in a house with the same views. And the poignant ramblings of his mother Lily, who suffers from vascular dementia--"I put sap in the clock to make it moist"--are transcribed directly from the speech of McEwan's mother Rose, using notes McEwan took on visits before her death five years ago. "I had tried doing without notes...
...filled to capacity the night of Chihwaseon’s screening, and the audience included a sizeable contingent of Korean-speaking patrons. This linguistic divide proved a tad discomforting during the question-and-answer session that followed the movie: Kwon-taek’s replies were often witty and poignant, but his translator (Professor Kyung Hyun Kim of the University of California Irvine) struggled to keep pace with the director. Often, by the time the English-speaking audience had received its version of the directors comments, the Korean-speaking filmgoers were already in stitches or gasping with delight...
...works of Maurice Manning propose human understanding as an alternative to discrimination and isolation, proving that a common humanity can carry across space and time through a poignant body of literature...
...noble stature for tragedy. But that's nonsense. We don't live in an Aristotelian age; we live in the age of Donald Trump. And Willy, trying to pass on his false values to his sons (and incidentally destroying them as a result), has become an ever more poignant, and prescient, figure...
...particularly poignant moment, Harold recounted the time she spent visiting with members of the military...