Word: poignant
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...role in the epochal events in her life--her marriage to the most famous man on earth, the "Crime of the Century," blazing air routes, the debate over America's isolationism. Because she considered no experience complete until she had written about it, she left us with volumes of poignant diaries and the landmark Gift from the Sea (1955), which speaks to one generation of women after another. Alas, within a few years of my meeting her, she began declining physically and mentally. In 1995, at a Lindbergh Foundation reception, Anne Lindbergh made a rare public appearance. Cameras and people...
...memorial books. One lists the dead in flowing script, another records their personal histories. Pilgrims who come to this silent, haunting place have also left signed photographs behind, mostly of children, or notes in the visitors' book. "John Michael Ahern. rip. Always in our hearts. Love, Dad," was one poignant entry last month for the 26-year-old from New York who loved skiing...
...That one accident sparked a great amount of concern here in our office," McCready says. "With a poignant, tragic occurrence like that, it opens people's minds about doing something, but this is one issue which the city and University are always concerned with...
...film Zhang is extending this ability to create a new form of action scene: rhythmic, poignant and majestic. Yen, whose working relationship with Li goes back a decade, sees that. He's fresh off success in the U.S. where Yuen Wo-ping's 1993 classic Iron Monkey, in which Yen plays a lead, was rereleased by Miramax and made $10 million at the box office. He applauds Zhang's command of a new style: "For a guy who has never directed action, he's got a nuance for certain pauses, certain breaks. He never stops looking at the bigger picture...
...This was a very poignant moment for White - the U.S. Senate apologized for the way they treated him. It was not a good moment for Ashcroft, who came across as a vindictive person who was trying to get back at someone...