Word: poignant
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...criticism that has become part of the 2000-campaign conventional wisdom: that he blew what might have been a peace-and-prosperity landslide because he refused to cling to Clinton's stained legacy. The day the Supreme Court decision came down awarding Bush the presidency, Hillary Clinton offered a poignant analysis of the choice they both had faced. Gore lost, the New York Senator-elect told friends, because he couldn't separate his personal anguish over Clinton's behavior with Monica Lewinsky from his own self-interest...
...live in a world of papers, letters and text; being able to translate our ideas through some other medium is a powerful and releasing tool that can complement and enhance our academic studies. Studying the poignant black and white photographs of Sebastian Salgado or the innovative architecture of Frank Gehry translates the wonders and terrors of the modern world better than any textbook or problem set ever could. We see how expression can be far more powerful in the visual medium. We need more opportunities to express ourselves in this...
...Rouge,? ?Last Romance,? ?A Fishy Story,? ?The Bride With White Hair,? ?Red Rose White Rose,? ?Comrades: Almost a Love Story,? ?Fly Me to Polaris? and three or four moody-broodies from Kar-wai. But Hong Kong cinema didn?t earn its international cachet by dealing in delicate feelings and poignant renunciation. It got there with sex and violence, action and atrocity, deftly orchestrated mayhem - exactly the elements that the press continues to exploit long after the Golden Age of Hong Kong films got tarnished. And with exactly the same rampaging, remorseless vigor...
...hometown’s Veterans’ Day parade is a poignant affair, like a Norman Rockwell painting without quite enough people to fill the frame. It is sparsely attended—my coastal town’s population shrinks drastically in the off-season—and as the high school band director eschews John Philip Sousa unfestive music in minor keys ricochets between the shuttered storefronts. There seem to be fewer veterans every year. Their absence is poorly disguised by the addition of more boy scouts. Bystanders shift from foot to foot, filling the gaps between cub scout...
...Photo festival has three themes this year: fashion, female photographers and images from the developing world. But the must-see show is Alexandra Boulat's, at the Galerie Debelleyme. The daughter of the distinguished Life and Paris Match photographer Pierre Boulat, Alexandra has made her own name with impassioned, poignant work in the war zones of Bosnia, Croatia and Kosovo. Photographs from her just-published book Eclats de Guerre, (Editions des Syrtes) are an example of photo-journalism at its best, when the eye is an adjunct of the heart