Word: poignantly
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...various family groups have no real legal power over the site. What they have is an emotional hold on the public that makes them a force to be reckoned with. "We're here to make sure the business interests don't override the possibility of doing something dignified and poignant," says Marian Fontana, head of the 9/11 Widows' and Victims' Families Association. "There are ways to make the area economically viable and satisfy our needs...
...stories of the everyday person prove the most poignant. Articles such as Barbie dolls, wedding rings, stuffed animals and love letters adorn panels with heart-wrenching messages of parents, nephews and friends interwoven into the fabric of the quilt’s panels...
...husband to serial dater, and embarks on a sort of rampage, dating and sleeping his way through the ranks of New York's women. Marin's behavior becomes increasingly ungentlemanlike - in fact, he becomes something of a cad. In this finely written, wildly entertaining, and alternately humorous, obnoxious and poignant memoir, Marin takes us down with him into the depths of what he calls 'bachelor hell,' and then back up again and eventually into the arms of a new love...
Women are always in danger in modern movies--in danger of being left out of them. In teen-boy farces, women are usually just a priapic prop. In adult action pictures they may be no more than a trophy, a pawn or a poignant memory. So the very notion that women are not on the margins but at the center of medium-budget, mass-appeal films is refreshing...
...limp and weightless; fire fighters could not bear to look down at the children in their arms. "Find out who did this," one told Oklahoma Governor Frank Keating. "All that I have found are a baby's finger and an American flag." That may turn out to be a poignant, gruesome icon. How easy it was to assume that the attack must have come from outside. America may no longer be safe from imported terrorism, but we weren't supposed to grow it here at home...