Word: poignant
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...Sadly, I feel like transgender issues get sidelined in queer organizations and feminist organizations,” he says. ”What I find particularly poignant about their struggle is that people are so stubbornly resistant to recognize the rights of transgendered people to live...
...rapped on Get Rich or Die Trying's best track, Patiently Waiting, in which 50 talks about how long he's been itching to show off his talent. 50 has some talent to show, and when he's rapping about his desire to be somebody he can even be poignant. But he's also capable of disturbingly thuggish behavior. The track Wanksta is the latest salvo in an increasingly absurd feud 50 is conducting with rapper Ja Rule. Two years ago, Ja Rule was robbed of several thousand dollars' worth of jewelry; later he saw 50 hanging out with...
...love with the African American gardener. As her reputation and family life shatter, Moore’s prim mother strains admirably and pathetically to keep herself going. Her character’s pristine married life behind her, the concluding expression on Moore’s face is as poignant and devastating as that of Meryl Streep’s suicide victim in Sophie’s Choice. Far from Heaven screens...
...Hyundai Asan, a subsidiary of the giant Hyundai conglomerate, were taken in buses across the border on a road built to improve access to a tourism development in the North. The caravan over the first new route across the DMZ since the end of the Korean War was a poignant, intensely emotional moment for Koreans. Hyundai Asan plans to pour $250 million?for starters?into a planned industrial park and tourist project in Kaesong, a city barely an hour from Seoul. Says Kaesong city councilor Jong Yong Chol: "The U.S. maneuvers against our country are getting more and more severe...
Many columns that critique Harvard’s approaches to teaching and learning begin or end with the phrase, “world’s greatest university….” Rather than an affirmation of fact, I think the use of the phrase is a poignant expression of the sense of disparity between what is and what can be—why it is that the caliber of our educations falters behind the caliber of our libraries, our professors and the caliber of our own minds...