Word: poignant
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...poignant scenes, the dialogue between Big Daddy and Brick is perhaps the most captivating. It is a perfect balance of two wholly different stories: The violent showdown between the two men who dominate both their family and the play, and the subtly tender heart-to-heart between father...
...distinguish this film from its forbearers—to make it special, or at least, worth reviewing. Ultimately, the film just isn’t distinctive or compelling enough to justify the 116-minute run time and, arguably, barely justifies the purchase of a ticket. Some funny and semi-poignant moments redeem the uninspired “Fred Claus” content, sort of. The all-star team—Giamatti, Bates, Weisz, Richardson, Spacey, and Vaughn—delivers strong, impassioned performances, especially in light of the weak dialogue and story line they’re faced with. Vaughn?...
...onesie, and spoke often of an imaginary princess, Cosgrove’s childishness was never overwrought. And as he frantically paced the stage, his tie flapping, patient Jon (Michael R. Wolfe ’09) successfully encapsulated the caricature of a businessman, a stumbling sycophant, and a poignant romantic in one character. Wolfe’s contorting arms seemed to spin his elaborate lies into being, while the fits of lock-jawed trembling that overtook him when he tried to reach out to the women he loved were free of affectation. He was credibly, hilariously, uncomfortably crazy...
BOSTON—As one of the students of the “Little Rock Nine” recounted her story under Faneuil Hall’s towering ceiling last night, her words were interrupted with short, poignant pauses. Fifty years ago last month, Carlotta W. LaNier and eight fellow students became the first blacks to integrated into Central High—a previously all-white Arkansas school—under the order of President Dwight D. Eisenhower and over the fierce objections of the state’s governor. Each day they passed a gauntlet of violent parents...
...Usually when the war in Iraq comes up in conversation there is so much to say, I don’t ever know where to begin. But when thinking just about this one aspect of the war, this one population affected by our war, I realize how poignant that woman’s words once were. Even if an Iraqi refugee wanted to stand on a street corner and beg for money, he or she couldn’t. The situation is much more bleak, more frightening, and more voiceless. What to do when a homeless person asks...