Word: poignantly
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...View on Global Warming Three of the soldiers on your recent cover were killed in the battle for Iwo Jima, their deaths as poignant and selfless today as they were in 1945 [April 28]. Your alteration of this photograph devalues their sacrifice and that of many others. In this time of war, when so many families are receiving a neatly folded flag in honor of their fallen loved ones, your cover is truly offensive. Have we as a nation become so ungrateful? Richard Putney, Richmond...
Before the trip began Tuesday, the St. Patrick's Cathedral Mass had been billed as the moment the Pope would broach the topic of the U.S. Church's sex abuse crisis. But having already spoken three different times about the crisis since arriving - and offering a poignant and unprecedented private meeting with victims of abusive priests - Benedict focused his remarks in New York on the need to repair the bond between the faithful and their priests. He prayed for "purification" and "healing," assuring the priests of his "spiritual closeness as you strive to respond with Christian hope to the continuing...
...emotional range and huge smile create the movie’s most touching moments, while Vale—brought to life by Jenkins—is the only character given a chance to fully develop. Their relationship is the movie’s best theme and produces nearly every poignant moment. The wordless final scene, in particular, proves that the things left unsaid can still speak volumes—an idea that McCarthy clearly remembers but doesn’t always practice...
...slaughter of the innocents. The painting has been displayed before alongside The Second of May, a depiction of the previous day's battle, in which Spanish militias viciously attacked Napoleon's Mameluke soldiers. But an earlier, insensitive attempt to repair damages to the canvases had dulled the poignant narrative impact of the two paintings. A magnificent restoration, begun in 2000, revived the original colors so that crimson blood in the two works shimmers as if still wet and the rich blues of the French uniforms stand out against the dusty ocher of the militamen's trousers...
...Huldisch and Momin have selected. Yet they also chose just enough work in which the materials may be humble but the ambitions are larger. New York artist Heather Rowe has adapted ideas from the late Gordon Matta-Clark, who sawed entire houses into parts to expose their strange and poignant innards. Rowe builds her own wooden frameworks, embedded with shards of mirrors and bits of vagrant molding, that create memory mazes, which double as Minimalist sculpture...