Word: poignant
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...unquestioned hero, dropping 30 on Kentucky in the overtime title game and receiving Most Outstanding Player honors. At this juncture, his shot drops down from w in “straw” to win the game at the buzzer. At once show-offy and poignant, the word cuts to the very nature of our contest and my thinking: “wishful.” It’s breezy fantasy, to be sure, because in no known reality is a Scrabble game conducted with every word carrying the utmost pertinence. And only in my head can I easily...
...expect. When John was 5, his mom and dad separated. His father sat him down and made him choose which parent he would live with. At first he chose his father, but after his mother left, the desperate little boy went running up the street after her. That poignant image hints at the ineffable, aching heart of Lennon's creativity, and his cruelty too. You get the feeling John never really stopped running...
...other plays, irony emerges in “Finding Their Guitar,” as the hero strives to become the champion of an art accessible to anyone with enough imagination, and the play’s idealism effectively strikes a poignant chord in audiences. Yet this irony also suggests a certain democracy present at the core of the show: that anyone with enough creativity and enthusiasm can make their artistic dreams a reality. These playwrights have done an admirable job with that freedom...
...comparison and aspiration to unattainable artistic perfection. In one of the most successful campus dramas in recent memory, “Lulu” deftly achieves this goal, shifting what could have been a flippant, conventional story of one girl’s corruption and social downfall to a poignant and serious examination of the shortcomings of the human condition...
...center of attention. Each week he shares the spotlight with a big-name star satirizing him or herself; the first week’s episode featured an Oscar-hungry, foul-mouthed Kate Winslet, and last week was Ben Stiller’s attempt to make a poignant film about Bosnian war victims. Gervais’ cohorts include Ashley Jensen as Andy’s dim-witted friend Maggie Jacobs, and his “Office” and “Extras” co-creator Stephen Merchant as useless agent Darren Lamb...