• "The Unicef projects were the pinnacles of poignancy for us on the trip, " he said.

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  • But that doesn't account for the more touchy-feely parts: poignancy and hope and a sense of place.

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  • The occasional bursts of violence are brutal, but Imamura manages to bring humor and a gentle poignancy to the affair.

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  • Snyder, who also directed the superhero film "Watchmen, " said he wanted to find a poignancy to add to the familiar story.

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  • In Los Angeles, time has a particular poignancy, since the body can never be young enough to satisfy an unsustainable ideal.

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  • Yet the screenwriter, Hanif Kureishi, and the director, Roger Michell, shamelessly milk the pathos of infirmity, lurching heedlessly from one prefabricated poignancy to another.

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  • Audiences remarked on the poignancy of his struggling youths, who seem always to be searching for something to value in an America defined largely by class.

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  • The Under-18 Championship had a special poignancy this year when Michelle and Alan Walton, the parents of the late Chris Walton, presented Luke Benn with the trophy.

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  • Everything about this anti-war film is geared for poignancy, from the snow-swept settings (the area around Park City, Utah, stands in for Europe) to the Christian symbolism.

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  • There is a particular poignancy to these crumbled church ruins.

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  • That he is comfortable in his solitude, that he emphasizes its virtues, that his intelligence gives it a poetic gloss, none of this diminishes the poignancy of his isolation.

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  • The orchestra included a ney, an end-blown Persian flute, whose breathy timbre in its low register gave an unearthly poignancy to the music of Mr. Parvin and the Bricklayer.

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  • The veteran's tale was embellished with further poignancy because of his dramatic victory against Jack Nicklaus in the Duel in the Sun over the same Turnberry course in 1977.

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  • What adds poignancy to these tales is the sad feeling that some of these cultures seem to be on the way out, inevitable casualties of the advance of the modern world.

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  • The plaiting of fiction and personal documentary by now a classic mode of indie modernism lends extra poignancy and self-deprecation to the low-key romantic agonies and financial struggles of ambitious yet uncertain bohemians.

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  • It also gives the film its energy and poignancy.

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  • But the tactful poignancy with which he treats both the mundane and the dramatic will reward those who persevere as will the book's insight that real tragedy consists less of violence than of loss.

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  • Ives has mastered dozens of comical ways a pick-up attempt can flame out, and while Rooth's character has heard it all before, Elrod's determination to get to a "yes" lends poignancy to the humor.

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  • But I do not think it has ever occurred to me with such poignancy as in Izmir, the city the Greeks once called Smyrna, before their 3, 000-year-old living presence in Asia Minor was all but expunged.

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  • For me, as an African more used to covering events on that wonderful yet challenged continent, there was an added poignancy as the developed and developing world seemed to merge into one terrible physical and human catastrophe.

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  • During an interview last summer, Cumming, who won a 1998 Tony in Sam Mendes' revival of "Cabaret, " said that "Macbeth" has a special poignancy because he made his professional debut playing Malcolm in "Macbeth" in Glasgow in 1985.

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  • But Heng shows he is as effective an actress as the women who took on the production, delighting hometown crowds with campy aplomb but also investing his Emily with moments of dramatic poignancy in more "straight" portrayals before international audiences.

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