Word: poignant
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...dishes part of family life where there are no "rules" and where couples decide, sometimes daily, to "stick it out." Krasnow believes, and I agree, that a conscious commitment to marriage can help couples transcend the grind of everyday life and create a marriage that is happily imperfect. Especially poignant are her accounts of people who have fled marriages to be with that elusive soul mate of their middle-aged fantasy. Not surprisingly, the soul mates turn into ordinary spouses sooner or later...
...There is poignant symbolism in baseball’s return from its enforced hibernation. The season of regeneration is upon us, whether we’re fans or not. It’s time to rouse ourselves for new challenges, to confront old problems in fresh and productive ways, to remember what makes life worth living...
...unusual to talk about someone who makes TV movies as having themes, a voice, an oeuvre. Scratch that: it's unusual to talk about someone who makes TV movies, period. Yet within this undersung field, writer-director Jane Anderson has wrought a body of wry and poignant work about women and power. Her 1993 The Positively True Adventures of the Alleged Texas Cheerleader Murdering Mom for HBO won her a writing Emmy and helped define a kind of off-kilter, fact-based drama that has become a pay-cable staple. Showtime's 1998 The Baby Dance, about the class tension...
Until the End of Time, drawn from a fertile period of Shakur's life--1995 and early 1996--shows that his mother knows how to choose wisely. The CDs are packed with his resonant, staccato rapping and poignant subject matter. Letter 2 My Unborn (Shakur left no children), eerie in its prescience about dying childless, is the sort of work that will nourish his mystique. Says poet Nikki Giovanni, who has studied Shakur extensively: "There's an old Nigerian proverb: You're not dead until you're forgotten." By that measure, Tupac lives...
...romantic romantic comedy. That Firth, who was the dark dreamboat Darcy in Pride and Prejudice, plays dull dreamboat Darcy here simply underlines the comedy-of-manners connection between Helen Fielding's work and Jane Austen's. This, for the most part, is a tale of comic good sense and poignant sensibility...