Word: poignant
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...various family groups have no real legal power over the site. What they have is an emotional hold on the public that makes them a force to be reckoned with. "We're here to make sure the business interests don't override the possibility of doing something dignified and poignant," says Marian Fontana, head of the 9/11 Widows' and Victims' Families Association. "There are ways to make the area economically viable and satisfy our needs...
...DiMaggio's 56-game hitting streak. "DiMaggio activated the greatest and most unattainable dream of all humanity," Gould wrote, "the hope and chimera of all sages and shamans: he cheated death, at least for a while." Gould at his best-profundity with a light touch, made all the more poignant because in 1982 he survived cancer. Gould cheated death, at least for a while-and he enriched our appreciation of life...
...stories of the everyday person prove the most poignant. Articles such as Barbie dolls, wedding rings, stuffed animals and love letters adorn panels with heart-wrenching messages of parents, nephews and friends interwoven into the fabric of the quilt’s panels...
...husband to serial dater, and embarks on a sort of rampage, dating and sleeping his way through the ranks of New York's women. Marin's behavior becomes increasingly ungentlemanlike - in fact, he becomes something of a cad. In this finely written, wildly entertaining, and alternately humorous, obnoxious and poignant memoir, Marin takes us down with him into the depths of what he calls 'bachelor hell,' and then back up again and eventually into the arms of a new love...
Women are always in danger in modern movies--in danger of being left out of them. In teen-boy farces, women are usually just a priapic prop. In adult action pictures they may be no more than a trophy, a pawn or a poignant memory. So the very notion that women are not on the margins but at the center of medium-budget, mass-appeal films is refreshing...