Word: poignant
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Vegas. The city of Washington was planned and built according to such models, and structures like the Washington Monument, the Lincoln Memorial and the Vietnam Veterans Memorial have helped transform the capital into a "historic theme park" laid out to teach Americans the virtues of civilization. In a poignant segment, Hughes stands alongside the black granite walls of the Vietnam Memorial and learns from mourners and visitors what the site means to them...
...matter, a secondary pair of gay male characters on Ellen. Ellen Morgan, on the other hand, ends her coming-out episode sitting awkwardly in a lesbian coffeehouse, unsure of how to comport herself in this new environment and with this new knowledge of herself. It's actually kind of poignant. The character is also denied an affirming liplock with her female love interest--a former taboo that was long ago shattered by L.A. Law, Roseanne and, earlier this season, Relativity (men kissing men, on the other hand, remains...
...killings seem especially poignant, and perhaps related, due to the hostility between the two artists. The rivalry between Biggie and Tupac began after Tupac was shot in a hold-up in New York City in 1994. Tupac accused Biggie of setting him up, an accusation which the rotund rapper denied. The personal antagonism flared into opposition between New York record label Bad Boy Entertainment and the Los Angeles based Death Row Records, and then into a feud between artists representing each coast. The (white) press has been quick to attribute the two slayings to the East Coast-West Coast...
...self-respecting students did weep for Nixon when he died in 1994. Basically, most of us could have cared less. But the more poignant response came from those who were students in the 1960s, like my high school biology teacher, who had been part of the Democratic convention protests in Chicago in '68. I recall her walking into class that day, being queried on the ex-president's passing, and responding with a brief expletive directed to the deceased...
Furthermore, individual scenes in Woyzeck are able to stand alone as poignant and stark meditations. At one point, a white tiled box rises up from the stage to serve as an examination room for Woyzeck's tormenting doctor scientist. This room, which later serves as a gas-chamber for the doomed orderly, stands out in the production. The revolutionary doctor (Will LeBow) delights and disturbs in his twisted dealings with his misbehaving subject Woyzeck...