Word: poignant
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Reunited is affecting not because the viewer deeply cared about Klymaxx or Romeo Void--did anyone?--but because it's both more poignant and more uplifting than Behind the Music. Its paunchy New Wavers are not operatic figures; they're just folks with jobs who have moved on to other jobs. They haven't gone on to ruin or luxurious retirements. They've just gone on--steadily, maybe happily, maybe not quite as excitingly as in their synth-fueled youth. That's not rock 'n' roll, necessarily. But as VH1's too-old-for-TRL audience has found, that...
...Melancholy metaphors aside, I?m pleased to pay tribute to the epiphanies of my kind of entertainment from 2003. There are no fancy dinners, no poignant acceptance speeches; none of the winners show up. Except for me. I got to rethink and relive all this great stuff...
...poignant commentary on our times that few of the best photographs were of anything remotely joyful. To revive our spirits, could you publish a compilation of "Cheerful Photographs of the Year"? Shankar Kumar Madras, India...
...hope. TIME can be very proud to have played a role in helping generate the donations that led to restoring Ali's health and providing him with rehabilitation and an education. His improved condition and his prospects for a dignified future will be forever linked to Yuri Kozyrev's poignant photo taken just after Ali had been so cruelly wounded. ODE LAFORGE Fontenilles, France
...Madonna didn't die at 40. Mui did, last week, of cervical cancer, in an exit as poignant as any of her songs or films...