Word: poignant
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...With preternatural calm, the boy resists. The incident, however, does not leave him unharmed. With both parents too self-absorbed to offer stability or guidance, Wilsey, an editor at the literary journal McSweeney's, careens among boarding and reform schools, a journey he recounts with clear-eyed, wry and poignant humor...
...objects excavated at his tomb in central Hubei province were 65 bronze bells as well as a courtly orchestra of drums, mouth organs and flutes. But Lim was moved most of all by the story of the 21 concubines buried alive with the marquis, their harps muted. Her poignant piece, pregnant with silence, evokes their wheezing, dying breaths...
...Hoberman and Jonathan Rosenbaum, which Samuels co-opts by having its authors carry his film's critical narrative. The rest is a brisk mix of clips and interviews with Barenholtz and other exhibitors, as well as five of the six films' directors. Midnight Movies is a pertinent, poignant reminder of an era when all sorts of weird wonders filled the screen, at all hours of the day and night - back when progressive directors went about breaking taboos, not surrendering to Hollywood's fondness for feeding on its own carcass. A look at the other picture on display today might convince...
Movie heroes come�in a variety of styles and moods. They can offer a brilliant smile (Errol Flynn) or a poignant wince (James Dean), a charismatic squint (Steve McQueen) or an implacable Mount Rushmore stare (John Wayne). But the most venerated always come in one state: dead. Here are four deceased icons, and five DVD memorials, that actually justify the hype...
Above all, Turner hopes his revival of the play will get people thinking. Turner himself names the most poignant piece of dialogue to be when “the hacker mouths off a bunch of computer lingo and then says, ‘If you didn’t understand a word I said, [and] don’t go near it, it’ll do you in. A hint: learn it.’” It is an ethos that continues to be relevant as the technology continues to expand...