Word: poignant
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...began with both Dick and Susan shooting from the windows of their Mott Street loft in New York City, and was edited and finished by Dick when Susan left for Nicaragua. Her absence is a major part of the second part of the film, and is especially poignant during one of her calls from Nicaragua when a gunshot is heard in the background...
...limp and weightless; fire fighters could not bear to look down at the children in their arms. "Find out who did this," one told Oklahoma Governor Frank Keating. "All that I have found are a baby's finger and an American flag." That may turn out to be a poignant, gruesome icon. How easy it was to assume that the attack must have come from outside. America may no longer be safe from imported terrorism, but we weren't supposed to grow it here at home...
Many women and men at Harvard are engaged in a debate over the role of women as career divas and devoted mothers. The question is particularly poignant to Harvard females as they begin to look ahead. Conversation about the proper role of women, according to many, becomes more common as they come...
...sheer number of simplifications involved in the political message tends to undermine its effect; the novel should remain the story of Falin and Kit. There is something truly poignant in the image of two powerless people huddled in a house in the Midwest while the warring national powers fight overhead...
Plaid clearly know this, and their entrance was well appreciated, if a bit underwhelming to these eyes. Rather than tuning instruments or hyping the crowd, they stayed true to the geeky stereotype and hooked up their laptops. The performance that followed was surprisingly high-octane, considering their poignant and wonderfully nuanced records. Sheathed in Plaid’s trademark heavenly synths, the funk came like a double shot of adrenaline and a breath of fresh air. The biggest response, other than to Mira dropping a booty ghetto-tech track at the end of her set, was the ominous...