Word: poignant
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...chilling. This is how evil often comes to us, masked in geniality, on a day when the sun is shining, the music playing. And the way Sergei clings to his ordinariness even as he's carried off, trying to preserve it for his family to the end, is unbearably poignant...
...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...
...Retrospect is the title of the socalled "candid, poignant" book by the former Secretary of Defense under Presidents Kennedy and Johnson. Sitting in his beautiful office near the White House in Washington D.C., the old man, once revered to as the "Best and the Brightest," now 78 years old, punches his right first into his left palm with strength and determination, as if all these silent years of retrospective meditation have finally brought him a point of self-revival. "We were wrong, terribly wrong," he declares. And suddenly, he feels the monkey is off his back...
...Grandin, a realist, tells Sacks over a dinner of spare ribs. But while she has animal rapport, her neurological wiring bypasses most human emotions; the upheavals of Hamlet and Romeo and Juliet leave her unmoved. The characters closest to her heart are Star Trek's android Data and his poignant predecessor, the supercognitive Mr. Spock...
...particularly poignant scene occurred when Joel Kemp '97 provided "testimony" to the Lord's good deeds. Kemp essentially claimed that despite his family's hardships of which the worst was hopelessness, Christ resurrected Kemp's life and allowed him to attend Harvard. The concert was most definitely evangelical, yet the group has been recognized by the University for a quarter-century and is now supported personally by Dean of Students Archie C. Epps III, according to the Kuumba playbill. Are Kuumba and other "non-religious" groups such as Under Construction truly secular? After seeing one of its concerts...