Word: poignant
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...both popular and fashionable to say that the mastery of international relations is an art. After all, history has given us poignant dramas like the 1972 Munich Olympics massacre, yet also regrettable farces like the Munich Agreements of 1935, pompously presented by British Prime Minister Chamberlain as a symbol of “peace in our time.” However, a fallacy lies beneath this analogy: where ambiguous art is celebrated, countries with vague intentions certainly are not. The Islamic Republic of Iran is an actor that seems not to comprehend this impossibility. Its flirtatious relationship with nuclear proliferation...
...most poignant moment of Mary Beth Carroll's CNN interview was when she addressed her daughter's kidnappers in Iraq, saying, "Jill's welfare depends upon you." To those not familiar with the Middle East, that might seem nothing more than as a passing remark, but I'll bet that phrase makes the headlines in the Arab media. The appeal to the Iraqi and Arab sense of responsibility for one's guest is bound to resonate in the region...
GRIZZLY MAN WERNER HERZOG For a darker parable of nature, attend the poignant, unsettling tale of Timothy Treadwell, who spent 13 summers among the wild bears of southern Alaska, until he and his girlfriend were mauled to pieces. With the aid of more than 90 hours of Treadwell's video footage, plus interviews with those who knew him, Herzog gets into the mind of a man who thought his nearness to the bears was a triumph of cross-species symbiosis, when in fact he was tempting the fate he eventually, tragically achieved...
...fact that the first Marine combat units land within hours of the first march over the Edmund Pettus Bridge [in Selma. Ala.] You've got the march in Selma and the landing of the troops in Danang, both with garlands around their necks, to me it's very poignant about an era of two different choices about how you foster democracy but starting off with such hope and promise. I didn't realize when I started the book, how closely the two things were going to parallel, but essentially Johnson's presidency is destroyed over Vietnam, and to have...
...will ?create a fresh example for humanity.? As you know from history, the Europeans were not immune from greed when they landed on this continent; and Smith?s aboriginal love story was to have a third character, the tobacco planter John Rolfe (Christian Bale). Malick doesn?t tell this poignant tale so much as he shows it. And what a show! Managing to make an epic film on an indie budget ($35 million), shooting in natural light - and, praise be, on the original Virginia terrain, not in Romania or New Zealand - Malick dramatizes the cultural collision with images of rapturous...