Word: poignant
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...best songs on the album, like Guettel’s contributions, are melancholy ballads like “Cradle and All,” a poignant reflection on a mother’s lost time with her child and husband, co-written by Broadway composer Ricky Ian Gordon and actress Jessica Molaskey...
...Slept With Someone” is by no means the worst offender in the score. The lyricist rhymes “them” with “them” within the first 20 seconds of the first song. During Laura’s supposedly poignant breakup ballad, “The Things We Could Have Been,” she compares her and Rob’s problems to “an elephant that won’t leave the room.” These songs will fall flat for both fans of Rob?...
...profound as the effects can be for the dying, fulfilled dreams can leave an equally poignant mark on the living. They can bring back a semblance of normal life, if only for a few hours or days, for family members who have spent months watching a loved one struggle with disease. For Mary Irvine, whose stepdaughter Candice, then 24, wished for a family cruise, the dream allowed her to see a glimmer of Candice as she used to be. "We snorkeled, we hiked up a god-awful hill to a lighthouse, we took ballroom-dancing lessons, we went...
...some world-class MCing. “Ultimate Satisfaction,” featuring Field Mob, is probably worth hearing at least once or twice. “Runaway Love,” featuring a Talib Kweli-esque wimp-rap beat and an especially nondescript Mary J. Blige, features some poignant (and, more importantly, listenable) storytelling. “Slap” is on the David Banner blues-rap tip, and it’s about time more popular rappers started ripping him off—you can’t go wrong with those wailing guitars and that invincible clap...
...Jesus Camp seems to me most interesting (and poignant) as a portrait of denied and even desecrated childhood. I am not myself a religious believer. That said, however, I think parents who do believe have an absolute right to introduce their children to whatever religion they follow - but gently so. Sunday school is fine. So are the instructions for confirmation that all religions offer. But the explicit politicization of religious belief that this film shows taking place is wrong. So is the fact that it appears to make religion the sole metaphor through which they apprehend a complex world...