Was there some premonition, she would wonder, that made that moment so poignant, some foreknowledge that this was the last afternoon the three would ever spend together in the small cottage? The Witch of Blackbird Pond 1958-12-01T00:00:00Z

The drawing is striking, well executed, poignant, melancholic, beautiful—but not in a traditional sense. Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

They added their thin poignant voices to Johnny’s. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

Mademoiselle had glided from the Chopin into the quivering love notes of Isolde’s song, and back again to the Impromptu with its soulful and poignant longing. The Awakening 1899-01-01T00:00:00Z

It would make for a poignant moment of television. Time Bomb 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

The wood was old and the paint was cracking, giving the Nativity scene a poignant look of absolute poverty. Bodega Dreams 2000-03-14T00:00:00Z

"You may choose it, Eleanor. It's poignant and it's truth. But how often will you get to roll that one out? " Eleanor & Park 2013-02-26T00:00:00Z

This lack of artifice owes as much to the rousing arrangement of songs, which blend seamlessly together, as it does to Echevarri’s poignant narrative. Auggie & Me 2015-07-20T00:00:00Z

Next to him lay his violin, trampled, an eerily poignant little corpse. Night 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

The Teacherage, which stands opposite the up-to-date school, is an out-of-date edifice, drab and poignant. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z

I like to imagine the new family was so touched by my poignant words that they decided not to paint over them. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z

A particularly poignant loss occurred in the summer of 1701, when the leaders of forty native nations convened in Montreal to negotiate an end to decades of war among themselves and the French. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

It’s not like I had some utterly poignant, well-lit memory of a healthy father pushing a healthy child and the child saying higher higher higher or some other metaphorically resonant moment. The Fault in Our Stars 2012-01-10T00:00:00Z

It is too poignant, like the little boy peering in the candy store window. Black Like Me 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

His earliest recollection was of great branches of lilac, standing in white jars, and they filled the house with a wistful, poignant smell. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

And the fact that the frail was his mother and the King of the Mountain his father made it more poignant, but did not change the essential facts. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z

Mozart left us far more poignant and permanent keepsakes of his existence than his bones: he left us his extraordinary music. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

It was a personally poignant and politically fateful decision. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z

It makes the character’s story so much more poignant. Love, Hate & Other Filters 2018-01-16T00:00:00Z

The symbolism of the scene was poignant, dramatizing as it did the passing of the prototypical American and the cause of gradual emancipation. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z

It was very peaceful and quiet: a chickadee sang his poignant little piece for them, and the inevitable whisky-jack arrived on soundless wings to pick up cooky crumbs from within a few feet. The Incredible Journey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

The pictures looked poignant and powerful, looming large on the walls. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

I decided to make a note of that sacrifice so that I could reference it in my future poignant Oscar acceptance speech. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z

Of all the wishes people had brought him—money, love, revenge—this seemed to him the most poignant and the one most deserving of fulfillment. The Bluest Eye 1970-01-01T00:00:00Z

But the stories she told them of moral decay, of the wicked who preyed on the good, were made more poignant by this clutch of arm to breast. Jazz 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

But all the while her heart beat in rhythm to the poignant sadness of the song the children sang while walking around in a ring with hands joined. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

The threat of Bologna to others had instilled in Doc Daneeka an even more poignant solicitude for his own safety. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z

Ms. Metcalf believes that knowing how Mrs. Clinton’s political career ended makes the saga more poignant. Laurie Metcalf, the First Lady of American Theater 2019-04-13T04:00:00Z

As a host, Brown frequently leans into poignant subjects with a mix of humanity and profanity, deploying the kinds of confessional stories to which her audience is accustomed. Brené Brown Is Rooting for You, Especially Now 2020-04-24T04:00:00Z

It is the poignant scene that concludes “The Power Broker,” in which Moses wonders why he wasn’t sufficiently appreciated. Sing of the Master Builder 2011-01-12T23:00:19Z

And, significantly, its founder Nancy Brinker, the woman whose vow to the sister she lost to cancer has served as the organization’s poignant, relatable narrative, stepped down as its CEO. Why did Komen for the Cure give Nancy Brinker a 64 percent raise? 2013-05-06T14:27:00Z

Laurie Veldheer’s Cinderella has an unforced sweetness that comes into poignant focus in the show’s most stirring number, “No One Is Alone.” Stripped-down staging brings clever moments in this long, long journey 'Into the Woods' 2017-04-07T04:00:00Z

We were more than pleased to be able to help last year, and as a band, we found it really poignant playing the piece there. Brighouse and Rastrick band tunes up for battle in the Pennines 2012-05-30T09:00:00Z

A poignant and gritty book about the difference between friendship and tribalism. Nikesh Shukla's top 10 Anglo-Asian books 2010-12-22T11:17:38Z

“To me, it’s poignant, it’s touching, it’s hilarious and it’s all in the writing.” Resurrected on Broadway: 'An Act of God,' This Time with Sean Hayes 1462-09-20T05:00:00Z

But really, this ballet was an excuse for pairings, the most poignant meeting being between Maria Kowroski and Tyler Angle. Review: At New York City Ballet, an Intriguing Glimpse of the Future 2019-09-27T04:00:00Z

On Sunday, comic friends teased Letterman about his late-night wars with Leno and retirement but the honoree struck a poignant note in his acceptance speech. David Letterman, celebrated late-night TV host, receives U.S. humor prize 2017-10-22T04:00:00Z

And lending a poignant immediacy to the rejiggered state of affairs was the Republican Senator Robert Bennett, ousted last month in the Utah primary for his votes on health care and Wall Street reform. The State of Conservatism 2010-06-11T21:46:00Z

Mr. Polenzani will be partnered by the pianist Julius Drake for Schubert’s poignant song cycle about a miller lad suffering in unrequited love. The Week Ahead: April 3 ? 9 2011-04-02T03:12:49Z

And so the dance Burgess had been working on in between trips home took a more poignant, nostalgic turn. ‘We Choose to Go to the Moon’: Kennedy dream inspires a dance 2015-09-11T04:00:00Z

As a composer, she culls a lot of her inspiration from life experience, and no matter how technical her music gets, it retains an unpretentious, poignant appeal. Marta Sánchez Finds Beauty in Loss With a Refreshed Quintet 2022-02-24T05:00:00Z

Sometimes, the rambling is just rambling; sometimes, it arrives somewhere suddenly poignant.” Performance picks: ‘Downstairs,’ ‘Please Open Your Mouth’ and (yes, we’re listing it again) ‘Welcome to Braggsville’ 2017-06-27T04:00:00Z

You mean people expected poignant, serious serious stuff from a veteran? T Magazine: Gore Vidal, P.I. 2011-03-10T15:03:52Z

One final encore was both jokey and poignant: the familiar little tune “The Happy Farmer” from Schumann’s “Album for the Young.” Review: A Pianist’s Seamless Flow, Nothing Short of Astounding 2018-04-06T04:00:00Z

The resulting works are at once modest and poignant, rooted in time and place, but also deliberately open to other times, other lives, other possibilities. Review | This photographer transcends his medium — by turning day into night and past into present 2021-04-20T04:00:00Z

The landscapes as they pass through the seasons are majestically shot and the story, enlivened by fugitive moments of humor, is a poignant one. Review: Venice Festival Opens With Glimpses Into the Pitfalls of Passion 2010-09-02T12:34:00Z

These ads were always a combination of warm family moments and nature scenes set to a poignant yet uplifting emotional piece of music. Merrill Markoe: My Favorite Moments of 'Late Night With David Letterman' 2015-05-15T04:00:00Z

But this week, with a former First Lady and presidential hopeful on set, “Broad City”’s immature aimlessness read all the more poignant. Hillary visits “Broad City”: Clinton makes Abbi and Ilana swoon in this wishful-thinking fantasy 2016-03-17T04:00:00Z

Sweet Little Mystery is, for me, the most poignant, addictive track on it. Old music: John Martyn ? Sweet Little Mystery 2012-02-10T09:00:00Z

From moment to moment, it can be funny, disturbing, poignant or all of the above. Dance Listings for May 29-June 4 2015-05-28T04:00:00Z

Elsewhere Micky Flanagan, fresh from the success of a funny, poignant and autobiographical Radio 4 series, was on filthily fine form. Latitude festival: Shakespeare, Swan Lake and Empire of the Sun steal the show 2010-07-19T13:19:00Z

He has raised the movie’s gravitas by promoting it as a poignant depiction of mental illness, not the edgy-soapy rom-com that $100 million worth of moviegoers thought they were paying to see. Oscars 2013: Richard Corliss’ Picks – Best Director 2013-02-21T22:05:35Z

As the loose, stylized, funny, often poignant plot progresses, these allegorical characters seem to lose their moorings; in Soper’s world, even stock figures can’t be trusted to maintain their points of view. Review: A New Opera Puts Real Emotions in a Fantasy Garden 2023-02-20T05:00:00Z

The show's easy, free-flowing dialogue and unforced emotion add up to a poignant portrait of an imperfect family. Parenthood – box set review 2013-01-24T16:40:01Z

To me, one of the most poignant parts of the film actually ended up on the cutting room floor, and I’ve been begging Chris to put it back in on bonus footage. Gabrielle Union: 'Bring It On' Cheers Come Back Like 'Muscle Memory' 0002-11-29T05:00:00Z

These feelings of alienation — and the kinds of connections that are forged in our increasingly globalized world — are subtly explored in “Wood and Water,” the poignant feature debut by the German writer-director Jonas Bak. ‘Wood and Water’ Review: The Distances Between Us 2022-03-24T04:00:00Z

Oguma is intensely poignant and funny as she relates the revolutionary visions of a young girl who's worked full-time in a Chinese factory since she was a child, making plastic Barbie heads. Review: In Ensler's play, girls just wanna be free 2012-11-13T02:06:08Z

Fan: Scores of readers responded with their hearts open to this poignant and plaintive question — and my response. Perspective | Ask Amy: Single mom is in a New York state of mind 2018-07-29T04:00:00Z

"Hundreds of thousands of people in the world struggle with these battles daily, therefore I am sincerely grateful for all thoughts and prayers at this very poignant juncture in my life and career," Jones said. Steel Magnolia's Joshua Scott Jones enters rehab 2011-09-29T20:38:11Z

She brings these large questions close-up and personal with her witty and poignant observations and her vivid language. Michelle de Kretser wins Miles Franklin literary award 2013-06-19T04:39:00Z

Holsapple’s “World to Cry” pounces with a typically sharp guitar fill that becomes a hook, and its accusatory tone turns suddenly poignant – the kind of twist that makes the dB’s best songs resonate. Album review: The dB's, 'Falling Off the Sky' 2012-06-11T20:53:00Z

This reaction was upsetting for all involved in the film and to make things up to his daughter, Gainsbourg wrote her an album of the same name with poignant, touching duets. Serge Gainsbourg's 20 most scandalous moments 2011-02-28T12:10:13Z

But as this smokily poignant scene shows, both were radical painters of modern life. Show me the Manet – the week in art 2013-01-18T13:34:13Z

Zoë Kravitz is an executive producer of “High Fidelity” as well as its star, and the show — funny and poignant and surprisingly personal — feels like a product of the sensibility that Woodley described. Sooner or Later, Zoë Kravitz Was Going to Be a Star 2020-02-13T05:00:00Z

Ms. Smith chose “Perfect Day” for what she called “Lou’s most poignant lyric”: “You made me forget myself/I thought I was someone else, someone good.” Critic’s Notebook: Lou Reed’s Complex Spirit Is Invoked at a Reunion of His Inner Circle 2013-12-17T22:39:52Z

It was an odd, poignant spectacle: dedicated musicians donning costumes or tuxedos to perform for people at home. In a Pandemic, Musicians Play in Empty Halls for Audiences Online 2020-03-13T04:00:00Z

Grief anchors itself to a piece of cake at one point in “The Electric Baby,” Stefanie Zadravec’s poignant play about unexpected bonds between ostensibly dissimilar people. What’s up with the glowing baby at the back of the stage? 2016-04-27T04:00:00Z

Those are the right aesthetic complements for Vogel’s interweaving of poignant and upbeat Civil War narratives, set in Army encampments, the White House and other spots along the Potomac River. Review | ‘A Civil War Christmas’ at 1st Stage is overstuffed, feel-good holiday fare 2018-12-04T05:00:00Z

Stephen King’s superb new stay-up-all-night thriller, “Finders Keepers,” is a sly, often poignant tale of literary obsession that recalls the themes of his classic 1987 novel “Misery.” Book World: ‘Finders Keepers’ by Stephen King 2015-05-25T04:00:00Z

Haig, who lives in England, brings a delightfully witty touch to this poignant novel. Review | Does living forever sound ideal? These 5 new books will change your mind. 2018-01-23T05:00:00Z

While Ms. Gall’s rich anecdotes from interviews with Afghan villagers, Taliban fighters and officials of many governments provide poignant realism to the book, they also highlight one of its few drawbacks. Books of The Times: ‘The Wrong Enemy,’ by Carlotta Gall 2014-04-09T20:24:47Z

The most poignant response came from Ross Hughan: "I am dying of a brain tumour, leaving behind my two best works – my son Alexander, and my daughter, Kathryn." Cake, children and cocktails: legacy hopes of 1,000 men in pottery exhibit 2013-01-21T13:45:17Z

I just kept weeping and weeping, because it's so beautiful and poignant, and for me it produced within me such a deep desire to get upright. "As a Woman" author Paula Stone Williams: I was "unaware of my male privilege" until transition 2021-06-22T04:00:00Z

The intersection of loss and our virtual lives is a thorny, occasionally poignant and often awkward thing. Revisiting Millsberry: The wild rise and fall of General Mill's virtual cereal-themed town 2022-11-07T05:00:00Z

This picture's always been poignant for me because it reminds me of the man who encouraged me to pursue . Ian Beesley's best photograph: a sewage foreman captured in tears 2013-01-16T16:59:55Z

Jolie manages to be both soft and sharp, poignant and yet still a little slithery. Love's True Kiss: 2014-07-02T04:00:00Z

Gloria Grahame is a star whose reputation is being reclaimed, perhaps due to the movie Film Stars Don’t Die in Liverpool, about her poignant end. Who is the best Oscar-winning supporting actress of all time? 2018-02-07T05:00:00Z

“A poignant sadness infiltrates the director’s gayest moments,” Andrew Sarris once observed — but that’s Lubitsch, whose touch, “is this counterpoint between sadness and gaiety.” Escape With Me Into the Trippy World of 1930s Musicals 2020-04-22T04:00:00Z

This deft phrasing comes laden with emotion, often wry or poignant, but occasionally snort-out-loud hilarious. New page-turners heat up our summer reading: "Blacktop Wasteland," "The Only Good Indians" and more 2020-07-08T04:00:00Z

As written, the slowly evaporating final section recalls the poignant dissolving strings at the end of Mahler’s Ninth Symphony. Review: The Philharmonic Journeys From Ocean to Desert 2023-06-09T04:00:00Z

The texts are rich with poignant stories of spiritual wanderings and everyday life. A Dazzling Chinese Singer’s Riveting Song Cycle 2017-07-16T04:00:00Z

So it was quite a poignant time for all of us. Nancy Birtwhistle wins The Great British Bake Off 2014 2014-10-08T04:00:00Z

Beethoven is also represented in the show by his medicine spoon, a poignant reminder of his physical travails, deafness being merely one of them. Critic’s Notebook: ‘Vienna’s Musical Giants’ Brings Artifacts to Carnegie Hall 2014-03-11T21:56:53Z

It is a poignant moment that at first divides Dong-soo and So-young, but then eventually draws them closer together as they are from opposite sides of the same equation. "Broker" is the absorbing slow-burn chase film with a baby, a cop and a makeshift family of liars 2022-12-26T05:00:00Z

The story of the three older intellectuals is both poignant and frightening. In Masha Gessen’s ‘The Future Is History,’ Homo Sovieticus Rises 2017-10-03T04:00:00Z

Or is it poignant for Clinton to see, in Jackson, a woman getting a crack at a traditionally male job? The Broadway Life of Hillary Clinton 2019-04-25T04:00:00Z

One 1988 image features the poignant sight of a prim new pair of shoes sitting alongside a filthy mattress. Photography's best-kept secret: How Anthony Hernandez put a distinctly Los Angeles lens on picture-making 2016-09-23T04:00:00Z

It was unlike anything I’ve tasted, and it made the portrait of Anthony Bourdain, then dead just two months, proudly displayed on the wall of the restaurant, especially poignant. A Food Snob’s Food Tour Conversion 2020-04-17T04:00:00Z

In a poignant group of small prints, Fumiko Imano poses with her double, a twin she granted herself by photographic means when loneliness prevailed. Informality and improvisation in photo exhibit at Little Big Man Gallery 2015-08-21T04:00:00Z

It was written for Boulez’s 60th birthday, and the “blue silence” of its title has taken on another, poignant layer after that composer’s death in January. Review: Four Days of Luigi Nono in ‘Utopian Listening’ 2016-03-28T04:00:00Z

On view this month at a new boutique in Bangalore, India’s third largest city, the collection is a poignant survey of the transformative century after Britain colonized India in 1858. | Vintage Studio Portraits of Indian Women From the Peak of British Colonialism 2014-04-10T19:00:55Z

The poignant drama is about a Nigerian-born American novelist who is confronted by her own ambivalent feelings about home and homeland when she returns to visit her dying father. Daughters of African Immigrants Use the Stage to Tell of Two Worlds 2018-01-24T05:00:00Z

This instrumentalization is meant to feel poignant, but it comes off as callous. “Find Me” Is a Shallow Sequel to “Call Me By Your Name” 2019-10-21T04:00:00Z

The posted disclaimer further pleads: "The exhibition brings public attention to artists whose art has not been seen, art that tells powerful and poignant stories about African American experiences." National Museum of African Art hurts itself with show from Bill Cosby art collection 2015-11-06T05:00:00Z

The film’s concluding, poignant image suggests that for some, escape comes only after a lifetime of self-denial and repetitive motion. 2010-01-21T04:46:00Z

But it also means something more poignant: the end of your character’s journey. Ellie Kemper: What I Learned From the Cast of ‘Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt’ 2019-01-29T05:00:00Z

Along the way, there was the usual array of leaden gags, shameless commercialism and genuinely poignant moments that transcended all the award-show contrivance. The Best and Worst Moments of the 2022 Emmys 2022-09-13T04:00:00Z

The tragic epiphany here is in Donny’s poignant realization of how low he’s sunk in letting paranoid humanity overtake his humanity. A vigorous new staging of Mamet’s ‘American Buffalo’ at Seattle Rep 2013-01-18T21:38:59Z

Find poignant conversations or phrases or stories and elaborate on those and what work, and to do that, you really have to be present in your daily life. Jason Isbell’s dream to make a “ridiculous wanking guitar” album: “I have to be so damn tasteful all the time when I’m playing my own songs” 2015-07-13T04:00:00Z

Did anything really stand out to you that you had either forgotten, or anything that really stood out to you that you're like, "Wow, this is really poignant," or profound? Gina Schock on The Go-Go's "explosive and crazy" energy together and her new book of insider photos 2021-10-30T04:00:00Z

Underlying the film's humour is a poignant and truthful analysis of the difficulties inherent in sustaining a long-term marriage. Leslie Mann: 'If I don't have a creative outlet, I implode' – interview 2013-02-16T22:00:02Z

When she first saw the screenplay, Hsu couldn’t believe what she was reading: The mother-daughter relationship was that poignant and relatable. How ‘Everything Everywhere All at Once’ Helps to Heal Generational Trauma 2022-04-15T04:00:00Z

Most memorable are the two soaring duets for Daisy and Violet, the poignant first-act closer, “Who Will Love Me As I Am?,” and the climactic “I Will Never Leave You.” ‘Side Show’ in a New Production at the Kennedy Center 2014-06-20T04:00:00Z

But the poignant message is buried under layer after layer of instruments. British singer Passenger falls short on new album 2014-06-11T04:00:00Z

Some of the items are strikingly poignant, especially the first one in the book — a pair of tiny shackles, which Holzer calls a “gruesome relic of slavery designed to restrain a mere child.” ‘The Civil War in 50 Objects’: emblems of a bloody conflict 2013-07-11T18:49:15Z

One especially poignant scene that occurs late in the film, has both characters sitting in a car, evaluating their lives. In the affable "Call Me Chihiro," a former sex worker provides friendly bento comforts to all 2023-02-27T05:00:00Z

Kujawska, meanwhile, seems to provide a commentary on the way that the raw stuff of women's lives is aestheticised and made poignant. Vincent Dance Theatre – review 2012-11-18T00:06:05Z

This is Scorsese’s least sentimental picture of mob life, and for that reason his most poignant. ‘The Irishman’ Review: The Mob’s Greatest Hits, in a Somber Key 2019-09-27T04:00:00Z

In this one-man show by the veteran South African choreographer Robyn Orlin — political, poignant and mercifully funny — Khoza, stunningly loose and in command of the crowd, reveals a quick mind and lissome physicality. Review: Dressed Up in Saran Wrap and Ready to Dance 2022-09-23T04:00:00Z

And it's got a poignant dog reference, precluding the need in the playlist for, say, Fred Eaglesmith's He's a Good Dog. Readers recommend: songs about euphoria 2010-08-12T23:01:00Z

In the second one, “The Last Spring,” every twist in the beguiling melody, at once poignant and consoling, is cushioned with Grieg’s plaintive chromatic harmonies. Malmo Symphony Plays Grieg ? Review 2012-01-13T16:26:56Z

Given the history of the United States in particular, the darker a parent, the more poignant the erasure.  The “real” Santa: Sometimes it’s a woman! 2013-12-18T18:08:00Z

“Now Then” is rife with poignant images — perhaps none more so than the photograph of a young boy named Simon being taken out to sea by boat in the wake of his father’s drowning death. Seven photos, seven stories: Chris Killip on capturing the declining industrial towns of England in the '70s and '80s 2017-07-21T04:00:00Z

A brief no-frills book that’s long enough to accrue emotional depth, Mr. Ammaniti’s poignant story was a huge seller in his native Italy. New Fiction From Tatiana de Rosnay, Richard Mason and Others 2012-02-22T23:06:04Z

“It’s glorious and poignant that this veteran investigative reporter, who will forever be identified with Watergate, is wading back into the fray,” said Tim O’Brien, the Trump biographer and executive editor of Bloomberg View. Perspective | Reporter Carl Bernstein has seen it all, from Nixon to now. But nothing quite like Trump. 2018-07-27T04:00:00Z

By the end of his 70-minute set, Campbell was visibly fatigued, if happy, delivering a poignant, soulful "A Better Place." Glen Campbell forgetful but in fine musical form 2012-11-28T18:30:06Z

Memoir is a difficult literary form to pull off when dealing with discrete and poignant moments in a life, even harder when seeking to narrate over 80 years of existence. Putting Down the Scalpel, Picking Up the Pen 2018-03-02T05:00:00Z

This interlinking takes getting used to, but the payoff can be huge when it’s the poignant examples from Shields’s own life. Review | ‘The Trouble With Men’ offers an intimate look at its subject 2019-02-22T05:00:00Z

Elling takes care with words, and is masterly at shifting accents and tone colours to make meanings dulled by decades of repetition spring back to life – sometimes with poignant, scary or downright sinister implications. Kurt Elling 2010-07-05T20:31:00Z

Since Pinter's own death, the play's exchanges between the dying Andy and his wife Bel seem even more poignant – though they're angry and comic as well: BEL Darling, death will be your new horizon. Harold Pinter's Moonlight at the Donmar 2011-04-01T10:54:25Z

As the family teeters on the verge of breakdown, Nicholls offers a poignant consideration of how a marriage ages, how parents mess up and what survives despite those challenges. The top 50 fiction books for 2014

But while The Sessions, based on the true story of journalist and poet Mark O'Brien, is powerful, poignant and emotional at times, it is also extremely funny. Let's talk about sex 2013-01-18T07:55:33Z

Her message is poignant and profound: A person need not totally untangle from her family in order to reject inherited patterns of relationship. 9 New Books We Recommend This Week 2019-11-27T05:00:00Z

Others are particularly poignant reminders of the days of slavery and Jim Crow. Why the case for the removal of Confederate memorials isn’t so clear-cut 2017-05-06T04:00:00Z

By design or not, the songs on “Xscape” trace a poignant narrative arc: from blissful romance to thoughts of exploitation and betrayal to a final, desperate longing for escape. Michael Jackson, the Remix 2014-05-07T16:08:06Z

Moreover, a scene in which Darcy visits her ex-husband allows Hunter to perform a poignant monologue that will move viewers. “I think that it’s easier to seek revenge than come to terms with someone inside.”: Holly Hunter stars in “Strange Weather” 2017-07-30T04:00:00Z

Two paintings in this gallery are particularly poignant images of this fundamentally human anxiety about the continuity of the world and our inability to foresee its future. Perspective | On a last walk through the National Gallery, I’m reassured by images of an uncertain future 2020-03-13T04:00:00Z

Totò was a legend in the Vesuvian city – a comedian of genius; poignant, mysterious. Aniello Arena: the Italian gangster who turned movie star 2013-02-17T00:02:02Z

There was something so poignant to me about the love story between these friends, it just made me weep. Sarah Paulson Has a Thing for Vulgar Performances and Good Cries 2020-09-15T04:00:00Z

Although Perry hopes that “Friends, Lovers and the Big Terrible Thing” will eventually be shelved in the self-help section of bookstores, “Friends” fans will find poignant nuggets in its pages. The One Where Matthew Perry Writes an Addiction Memoir 2022-10-23T04:00:00Z

Her poignant reckoning looks at a country that keeps privileged White men in power while holding at arm’s length the “conditional citizens” whose race or gender doesn’t conform to the elite’s. The books to read in September 2020-08-31T04:00:00Z

It really is one of the most poignant films about the trauma of war. 50 documentaries you need to see 2016-03-27T04:00:00Z

This last picture may be the show’s most poignant, and also the most perplexing. Art Review: ?Eva Hesse Spectres 1960? at the Brooklyn Museum - Review 2011-10-06T22:49:44Z

That neither the subject nor date can be confirmed doesn’t make the picture any less poignant. Art Review: Pride of Place, Brighter Than Ever 2011-02-18T00:30:05Z

There is nothing to do but shout out, fortissimo, “My blood, my blood” in the poem “O Light,” or the eponymous “Rise! Rise! Rise!” at the end of the poignant, penultimate poem, “Remains.” Cantate, Afro Blue singers premiere cantata on race in the U.S. 2015-04-20T04:00:00Z

“Happy Hour,” part of the Clarice’s Visiting Artist Series, is just that: a happy hour, short, sweet and ultimately poignant. Review | Cheap wine and cheese puffs are only the beginning of this ‘Happy Hour’ 2019-11-22T05:00:00Z

“Big Ones” is truly weird, but it takes you inside its weirdness so soon and so surely that it shows many different humors: It’s funny, touching, poignant, stirring. Review: Eccentricity and Offbeat Humor by BalletX 2016-08-17T04:00:00Z

But that in itself is a poignant reminder of what a trying moment it was in American history. Art Review: ‘Signs & Symbols’ and Oskar Fischinger at Whitney Museum 2012-07-26T20:02:10Z

The clumsiness in expression of many of Friday’s interviewees is a poignant testament to the raw honesty behind the confessions. Why Nancy Friday’s 1970s collection of women’s sexual fantasies still matters 2017-11-06T05:00:00Z

But while descriptions of their precision and transparency sometimes make them seem cool, even chilly, this was poignant, humane music-making. Best Classical Music Performances of 2022 2022-12-01T05:00:00Z

Coronavirus restrictions in place at the time meant that the queen sat alone — a poignant reminder of how she would spend her life going forward. Queen recalls ‘familiar laugh missing’ in Christmas speech 2021-12-25T05:00:00Z

It's funny and tender and yes, slightly seedy, but caught something subtle, true and poignant about a father-daughter relationship. Serge Gainsbourg, introduction to a provocateur 2011-09-02T20:20:00Z

The anguish of the Republican members is palpable and poignant, as many try to rise above a strict partisan view. How an impeachment unfolds: Inside the 1974 Nixon hearings, day by day 2019-10-14T04:00:00Z

He achieves a number of other startling effects in this impressive movie, which sheds its naturalism slowly as it embraces a surrealism that’s both disquieting and poignant. ‘Ham on Rye’ Review: Coming of Age, With Existential Unease 2020-10-22T04:00:00Z

Fontaine recalls a particularly poignant conversation with her mother: “‘There’s one thing missing from my life,’ she told me when I was 21. When a Stroke Felled Her Mother, This Author Ran Away to the Circus 2018-05-24T04:00:00Z

And the novel’s final moment provides a brilliant blending of realism and mythology, a poignant acknowledgment of the limits of female power — and its boundless potential. Review | Mark Haddon’s ‘The Porpoise’ sounds like homework. It’s actually fantastic. 2019-06-10T04:00:00Z

Through poignant flashbacks, we discover how adrift they were in their pre-island lives, too: Jack, a doctor with father issues; Kate, a killer on the run; Sawyer, a conman fleeing his past. Your next box set: Lost 2010-09-03T05:46:00Z

In one funny, poignant scene, he executes a series of impressive skateboard moves — real, not imaginary — while her back is turned. Movie Review: ‘The Secret Life of Walter Mitty’ Stars Ben Stiller 2013-12-24T18:27:55Z

Having the kids speak as Link signs his story underlines one of the most poignant facets of “To Kill a Mockingbird”: Repeating the truth is as important as knowing it. In ‘Mockingbird,’ a deaf actor finally gets his wish: Not to be defined solely by deafness 2019-11-13T05:00:00Z

It’s one of the things that I find most poignant: his speech, his manner of speaking, his cadences, which were so precise and distinctive, have not survived. First Encounters with the Art and Presence of Saul Steinberg 2018-07-20T04:00:00Z

That “something different” is the heart-clutching sensation that throbs throughout this miraculous show, as precise as it is elusive, and all the more poignant for being both. Review: ‘The Band’s Visit’ Is a Ravishing Musical That Whispers With Romance 2017-11-09T05:00:00Z

But practically any details would seem poignant in anticipation of what we know would come. ‘Matt Shepard Is a Friend of Mine,’ a Documentary From Michele Josue 2015-02-05T05:00:00Z

In this staging, the final poignant tableau evokes rebuffed huddled masses yearning to breathe free. Review | Vivid ‘Tempest’ at WSC Avant Bard 2018-06-06T04:00:00Z

It is poignant, as you’d expect, and surreal, but mostly it’s playful. Mats Ek — the Swedish rebel choreographer who’s ‘allergic to pretty’ 2016-05-27T04:00:00Z

The final scene, in which the heroine willingly accepts death, was unbearably poignant. Charles Mackerras 1925-2010 2010-07-15T12:52:00Z

King of Pigs is as painful, poignant and hard to shake as a childhood trauma. New York Asian Film Festival: A Scalding Wind from the East 2012-07-06T23:42:38Z

But “Hir” does have its poignant aspects, too, and the most important of these is embodied by White, whose transgender character does, amid all the emotional carnage, represent a step forward. Review | Taylor Mac’s play ‘Hir’ shows an America that’s groping in the dark for its moral identity 2017-05-29T04:00:00Z

One of this year's outstanding Welsh productions was Dafydd James's play Llwyth, a poignant meditation on a generation of gay men in Cardiff. National Theatre Wales at one ? too young to master Welsh? 2010-10-20T15:44:00Z

Europeans are more likely than Americans to catch the poignant allusion in O’Brien’s title, “The Little Red Chairs.” Review: Edna O’Brien’s ‘The Little Red Chairs’ confronts Radovan Karadzic 2016-03-24T04:00:00Z

In this teeming, vividly orchestrated symphony, Bernstein boldly draws from diverse styles, including episodes of wide-spaced, poignant harmonies evocative of Copland, and hurtling moments that screech with modernist intensity and break into 12-tone shards. Review: Son Confronts Father to End a Leonard Bernstein Festival 2017-11-10T05:00:00Z

Enter “Dear White People,” the 10-episode Netflix series, which begins streaming Friday and elevates its source material into a deeply poignant exploration of where we are now. Review | Netflix’s ‘Dear White People’ is even better than the movie 2017-04-27T04:00:00Z

A sad song only becomes poignant when it reminds you of something, or someone, else. Reggae doesn't make Guardian readers cry, but here are some songs that do ... 2011-04-11T15:05:01Z

The ending of "Logan" also works in a bold and poignant way, providing the kind of closure that any story could be proud of. "Dark Phoenix" is an unworthy X-Men finale 2019-06-07T04:00:00Z

Mostly, though, Chaplin composed graceful, affecting music to draw out the emotional dimensions and sentiment of this poignant story, however comedic on the surface. Review: ‘City Lights’ and ‘ Fantasia’ at the New York Philharmonic 2016-05-22T04:00:00Z

"F. Scott Fitzgerald wrote some of the most poignant and beautiful passages of his extraordinary novel just a short distance away at a villa outside St. Raphael," he added. Baz Luhrmann's "The Great Gatsby" to open Cannes film festival 2013-03-12T12:00:15Z

The poignant dramedy will be back for season 2 on Friday, Dec. 11, the show announced with a new trailer on its Facebook page Tuesday. Watch the First Trailer for Amazon's 'Transparent' Season 2 2015-11-11T05:00:00Z

Hold My Liquor is just heartbreaking, and particularly coming from where it's coming from – listen to that incredibly poignant hook from a tough guy like Chief Keef, wow. Lou Reed on Yeezus: 'It brings tears to my eyes' 2013-07-03T15:48:19Z

Legend added a poignant note about the erosion of voting rights and the staggering number of African-Americans in the prison system. Grading the Oscar Speeches: Patricia Arquette Gets an A+ 2015-02-23T05:00:00Z

Now, Kimberly Elkins’s wonderful novel salvages her story from the sunken wreckage of history and tells it anew in riveting, poignant detail. Kimberly Elkins’s ‘What Is Visible,’ a novel about Laura Bridgman

At first, the war seems like an unlikely, poignant entry point into a uniquely Almodóvarian swirl of present-day romantic complication and domestic anguish. ‘Parallel Mothers’ Review: Almodóvar’s Brutal, Beautiful World 2021-12-23T05:00:00Z

The book’s last section is particularly poignant, as retirees realize: “We stalk the dead mall: Leaks/ Galore, Bare Ruined Racks, Etcetera,” and a self-proclaimed materialist finds freedom as people purchase pieces of her estate. Rita Dove’s essential new ‘Collected Poems: 1974-2004’ 2016-05-10T04:00:00Z

Paradoxically, the public nature of these engagement announcements often makes the private emotions and confusions that are revealed in them seem even more poignant. The Insta-Celebrity Engagement Is Somehow Very 2018 2018-07-13T04:00:00Z

She spends the rest of the movie in Paris, battling a couple dozen of Jang’s thugs and trying to cope with or accept her potent, poignant new condition. REVIEW: I Love Lucy — and Luc, and Scarlett 2014-07-25T04:00:00Z

Scrappy, peripatetic, now and then poignant, “Nomad Motel” wants to hit you where you live. Review: ‘Nomad Motel,’ a Play With Vacancies 2019-06-04T04:00:00Z

Now it's a poignant reminder of my perfect childhood. Family life: Granny's archive, 60s childhood and bread and drip 2013-05-04T06:15:02Z

Sure, but the film's message that "a loving world starts with a loving home" is a poignant one — especially amid current events. "I do not like gay cookies": Conservatives vow to boycott Oreo over new ad 2022-04-05T04:00:00Z

All it takes to be transported from hell into a spiritual retreat is the sound of a romantic popular song on the radio that seems to emanate from heaven and that conjures a poignant yearning. Review: ‘Sunset Song’ Shows a Woman’s True Grit 2016-05-12T04:00:00Z

Yet a poignant scene of her playing “Evergreen” on the guitar was cut from the movie. Barbra Streisand Debuts Lost Footage From ‘A Star Is Born’ on Netflix 2018-06-14T04:00:00Z

Yet somehow, instead of feeling abstract or general, it is more succinct, more poignant and more pressingly urgent than a roomful of research papers, a month of Sunday sermons, a year of news reports. Review | This 93-year-old artist has been taking on racism and sexism for decades — and is finally getting her due 2019-09-24T04:00:00Z

In the late 1950s and 1960s, Everly and his brother Don molded rock ‘n’ roll with their high harmony while their poignant lyrics captured the restlessness and energy of a generation of young people. Phil Everly, Half of Pioneer Rock Duo, Dies at 74 2014-01-04T03:31:36Z

They fall asleep, repeat themselves and fumble with endless bottles of medications, creating a poignant air of senility. | A Digital Deconstruction of Chekhov’s “Uncle Vanya” 2014-02-24T21:04:36Z

But what of the earlier definite article – to wit, The Hoff – whose efforts to associate himself with this movie seem to be drifting toward the poignant? Baywatch v Terminator Genisys: The Rock helps the beach movie outmuscle the competition 2016-01-22T05:00:00Z

So boys are turning to hypermasculine guideposts like Instinct from Axe, Swagger by Old Spice and Magnetic Attraction Enhancing Body Wash by Dial with results that are poignant, comic, confused — and stinky. 2010-01-30T04:45:00Z

The most poignant listen of the week is sound artist Sebastiane Hegarty's elderly mother failing to recognise a recording of her younger self. Next week's radio: from Between The Ears to TalkSport 2013-06-15T05:00:13Z

“String Music” is a poignant two-hander, alternating between a teenage boy who feels picked on and a police sergeant patrolling his neighborhood. George Pelecanos Explores New Terrain in ‘The Martini Shot’ 2015-01-07T05:00:00Z

With the Taylor company there are a hundred touches of shade, pathos and mortality that make this a larger work, both funnier and more poignant. Dance Review: Paul Taylor Dance Company at the Koch Theater 2012-03-19T22:18:43Z

For Kylie’s plight to be as poignant as possible, you must believe in Meredith’s power. Spare Times for Children for March 28-April 3 2014-03-27T22:34:17Z

Makumbi’s prose is irresistible and poignant, with remarkable wit, heart and charm — poetic and nuanced, brilliant and sly, openhearted and cunning, balancing discordant truths in wise ruminations. Set in Uganda, This Coming-of-Age Story Contains Universal Themes 2020-09-01T04:00:00Z

In a poignant sequence, they keep reappearing with suitcases, progressing toward an unknown destination. Northern Ireland Town Embraces Beckett Festival 2015-07-30T04:00:00Z

This stylistic choice also serves as a poignant contrast to the dark turns Osbourne's life was taking at that point. "Ozzy changed everything": Film examines the tumultuous life & legacy of the Prince of Darkness 2020-09-07T04:00:00Z

In his video, filmed, written and edited on his iPhone, Jelani interspersed shots of the march with a poignant soliloquy about his explosive feelings. Perspective | To understand what’s going on in the streets of D.C., theaters are having stage artists make movies 2020-09-16T04:00:00Z

With his latest Zoom play, “Incidental Moments of the Day,” he completes over the months of the shutdown an achingly poignant trilogy that maps out the existential black hole we seem to have fallen into. Review | Relief from Zoom sometimes comes in a box. A play in a box. 2020-09-25T04:00:00Z

But Rowling saves her most poignant observations for the disappointments of marriage and relationships. ‘The Silkworm’ by J. K. Rowling, as Robert Galbraith 2014-06-23T04:00:00Z

There were lots of tears, some poignant observations about life and love, two faintings and several happy endings. TV review: Toughest Place to Be a ? Paramedic 2011-02-14T08:00:01Z

This coming-of-age love triangle between a boy, a girl and an older woman is the essence of summer: tender, sensuous, poignant and without illusions. Best holiday reads 2013 2013-07-14T07:00:00Z

The 10 books described below give an idea of how poignant, rich and rewarding father memoirs can be. Andre Gerard's top 10 father memoirs 2013-06-12T15:11:54Z

It soon becomes clear in this neatly constructed, clever and strangely poignant mix of poetry and performance that explores those moments from which there is no way back. The Oh Fuck Moment ? review 2011-08-17T18:30:01Z

With its earnest staging of a cosmopolitan gentility mostly foreign to this small isolated farm town, the salon had a poignant elegance. Colette’s Burgundy 2019-11-22T05:00:00Z

But when Valerie finally decides to share a ghost story of her own, Klein's emotional narrative brings a poignant realism to her character. Review: Haunting, effective revival of 'The Weir' 2013-05-24T17:12:08Z

While it doesn’t make an entirely coherent case, it does make a poignant one, albeit in a production that bogs down in cacophony and murk just when it most needs lucidity. Review: ‘The Arts’ Makes a Wonky Case for the N.E.A. 2018-09-16T04:00:00Z

Atget, at the time, was a poignant figure who sought to provide a comprehensive record of the architecture and streets of turn-of-the-last-century Paris. Berenice Abbott: She Was a Camera 2018-06-01T04:00:00Z

The scale of “The Nightingale,” however, is much smaller, which only makes the magic of the water puppetry more poignant. Music Review: Stravinsky?s Tales, Dunked in the Spin Cycle 2011-03-02T22:59:11Z

But Vanistendael's book, poignant and occasionally harrowing though it may be, is not at all depressing. When David Lost His Voice by Judith Vanistendael - review 2012-05-25T21:55:08Z

There’s something oddly poignant about seeing Margaret deliver the last messages from her log. ‘Twin Peaks’ Season 3, Episodes 1-2: Back in Style 2017-05-22T04:00:00Z

Season 3, arriving Sunday, delivers 10 entertaining episodes of personal history that are equal parts political, poignant and juicy. Review: ‘The Crown’ and the Burdens of a No-Drama Queen 2019-11-14T05:00:00Z

The quips and jokes come fast through a poignant novel that is very much about time itself, especially the passing of time and the inevitability of death. A Novelist’s Exuberant Love Letter to a Mexican-American Clan 2018-03-26T04:00:00Z

The timing of the film's release couldn't be more poignant, with U.S. Wikileaks documentary spotlights complexity of Julian Assange 2013-05-24T11:18:48Z

The poignant exchange continued, and Dorey shared a photo of his two daughters together, to which Higby responded: “What gorgeous girls!” A girl with cancer was hospitalized for months. Now healthy and in college, she can see her old hospital room from her dorm. 2021-09-28T04:00:00Z

The Great British Rock Album always comes with a narrative – the story of a journey from idiosyncrasy to popular acclaim, with setbacks on the way – and the Manics' story was particularly poignant and strong. Who will make the next Great British Rock Album? 2011-07-14T21:00:02Z

The new work — Fagan, 82, created it just before the Joyce season — is a poignant, moody duet, set to John Coltrane. Review: Two Years Later, Garth Fagan Dances Out His Company’s 50th 2022-11-16T05:00:00Z

The follow-up to last year's Charlie Parker tribute, Beloved Bird, and just as good, a set by freewheelingly virtuosic pianist Bates – this time mixing some poignant originals with Parker classics. Best jazz albums of 2012 2012-12-13T22:01:22Z

"Pastures of Plenty" is a subtle, poignant look at Woody Guthrie's farmworker's ballad. New CDs by Northwest's Laura Veirs, others 2011-11-07T23:40:06Z

That insight only made his pain worse and it made his hopes more poignant. Finding hope on Martin Luther King Day, even in these times of struggle 2019-01-21T05:00:00Z

Of all the indignities and tragedies Homeira Qaderi and her family endured when the Taliban seized Herat, Afghanistan, the most poignant to read about is her father’s ritual of hiding the family’s books. Homeira Qaderi Wants Her Son to Know Her, So She Wrote a Book 2020-12-01T05:00:00Z

But while the dance ends on a serious note — a reference to the climate crisis — it will also feature a classic, poignant hallmark of Rainer’s choreography. Yvonne Rainer, a Giant of Choreography, Makes Her Last Dance 2022-09-29T04:00:00Z

“Their presence in the room made the entire experience poignant and particularly inspiring,” she says. Even after woman is gone, she remains her daughters’ guide

One wallows in a wide, painstakingly minor 12/8 time and the other drives a poignant bi-polar major/minor common time. Watch Adele's 'Hello' Mixed With Mozart in 'Chello' Mashup 2016-01-30T05:00:00Z

This year is especially poignant because it could be the last big gathering for Greatest Generation soldiers, many of whom are in their mid-90s. Six powerful Normandy spots for commemorating D-Day on its 75th anniversary 2019-05-23T04:00:00Z

Despite the rather grim storylines, "Only Murders" keeps the tone light while focusing on the main trio's poignant intergenerational friendship, bonded through their love of murder podcasts. Making the "Only Murders in the Building" nearly silent episode 2021-09-29T04:00:00Z

In a breezy history, brimming with new details, Ghazvinian combines pithy descriptions and poignant anecdotes. What Has Gone Wrong Between Iran and the United States? 2021-01-22T05:00:00Z

The novel ends on a poignant note, as David, now retired, finds himself unexpectedly awash in family intimacy when his son moves in with him during the pandemic. Anne Tyler, Close-Up Artist, Zooms Out for a Novel of Family Rifts 2022-03-20T04:00:00Z

The poignant opener, “Footsteps,” which features the early- and mid-two-thousands crooner Musiq Soulchild, embodies the uncertainty of walking away from a lover while simultaneously hoping that it isn’t really the end. The New R. & B. Is Here, Reflecting Confused Modern Love 2019-03-01T05:00:00Z

Funny, rousing and poignant, it’s kind of film that multiple generations will value. Holiday Movies to See (or Skip) 2016-12-22T05:00:00Z

Intimately shot and interspersed with archive materials and wearily poignant spoken interludes, it’s a paean to a mythic American west fading under the rocker’s boots. Streaming: Little Women – where to watch the best previous adaptations 2019-12-14T05:00:00Z

The acting is generally strong, with Ms. Booth offering a performance both practical and poignant. Review: Makeup Tips Galore, but Not How to Handle Cancer, in ‘Ultimate Beauty Bible’ 2016-11-07T05:00:00Z

"This fragment of song is poignant, wistful, beautiful and unfinished". Gibb's final song to be released 2014-07-31T04:00:00Z

A poignant or else preposterous moment to claim a connection with your father's vulnerability, when he's on the point of abandoning you. Saul Bellow's Heart: A Son's Memoir by Greg Bellow – review 2013-04-13T13:00:01Z

When 20th Century Fox releases the film to U.S. theaters on Dec. 19, the film will now double as holiday romp and poignant homage. Robin Williams' image won't fade from multiplexes soon 2014-08-13T04:00:00Z

The cast is headed by the poignant tenor Charles Daniels in the title role. ArtsBeat: Classical Playlist: Andrew Parrott, Jeroen Van Veen, Ildar Abdrazakov and More 2014-02-05T19:10:59Z

It may be true that you can never go home, but as Ms. Dean observes in this poignant and funny novel, you can never really run away, either. Newly Released Books 2011-02-16T22:45:21Z

The new Criterion Collection release includes restored versions of both films, a poignant printed essay by the great J. Hoberman and, most importantly, an astonishing audio commentary provided by film historian David Kalat. ?Godzilla? the Great: New Criterion Release Celebrates the Greatest Monster Movie 2012-01-25T16:20:11Z

The subsequent grooming sequence is subdued yet achingly poignant, speaking of trust, unexpressed affection and incompatibilities overcome. Theater review: Tarell Alvin McCraney’s ‘Choir Boy’ at Studio Theatre 2015-01-13T05:00:00Z

“Like a Cowboy,” with poignant lyrics that warn of a lesson often learned the hard way: You can’t change a man. Best New Southern Musicians 2011-01-27T21:20:03.957Z

One of "Amy's" most poignant moments is footage of a duet with Tony Bennett, one of her childhood idols, that she did just a few months before she died. 'Amy' tracks singer Winehouse's soaring talent, tragic demise 2015-07-02T04:00:00Z

I find it a very poignant subject, full of suffering and comedy. Tessa Hadley on Teen-Age Losses of Innocence 2018-09-10T04:00:00Z

In one beautifully poignant scene, Paul watches a young female D.J. languidly manipulate a glowing laptop, the once-frantic juggling of turntables and mixing board now erased by the ease of preset software. Review: ‘Eden,’ a D.J.’s Passion for Electronic Music, by Mia Hansen-Love 2015-06-18T04:00:00Z

In the most poignant exchange, all six singers spoke of how tiring it is to be constantly expected to teach their white colleagues about racism. A Met Opera Star Was Born, ‘Then Everything Stopped’ 2020-06-26T04:00:00Z

Her most poignant story recalled Monroe’s close friendship with Ella Fitzgerald. Music Review: The Marilyn Catalog, Revisited Whimsically 2011-08-11T21:54:20Z

Nicholas Masters, a bass from New Canaan, Conn., impressed with his poignant singing of "Bottom's Dream" from Britten's "Midsummer Night's Dream." Deanna Breiwick of Burien not among 5 winners at Met competition finals 2011-03-14T23:32:04Z

But during our current pandemic, the film’s ode to small-town camaraderie and the joys of a local hang is rather poignant. ‘Phoenix, Oregon’ Review: An Ode to Small-Town Joys 2020-06-01T04:00:00Z

“I feel like the way that he connects to his own personal history, his identity, through his music is very direct and poignant,” she said. The Composer Carlos Simon Is Busier, and More Honest, Than Ever 2023-05-17T04:00:00Z

Today, there is something poignant and slightly shrunken about Schwarzenegger as he talks about his upcoming projects. Arnold Schwarzenegger on Terminator Genisys: ‘I’ll be taking a beating or two’ 2015-06-11T04:00:00Z

“Mr. Tambourine Man,” “Like a Rolling Stone,” “Blowin’ in the Wind,” “All Along the Watchtower”… His most poignant songs will be played forever. Life Lessons from Bob Dylan 2012-09-05T15:00:34Z

It’s poignant to read the insecure Tchaikovsky’s own criticism of this symphony, which suffered, he wrote, from his “want of skill in the management of form.” A Star Pianist Brings Soft-Spoken Virtuosity to Scriabin 2019-11-28T05:00:00Z

But whatever the ultimate scholarly verdict, he will surely fare better than Shapira himself, whose end he calls “terribly poignant.” Is a Long-Dismissed Forgery Actually the Oldest Known Biblical Manuscript? 2021-03-10T05:00:00Z

But what the film made poignant was the transcendent rigor and beauty from the early days. Dance Review: Dance Theater of Harlem II at the Joyce Theater 2012-02-08T22:51:28Z

A message on the concert website reads, “This year’s concert will certainly be remembered as a poignant celebration of his music by his friends, peers, and fans.” David Bowie Tribute Concert Adds a Second Night 2016-01-14T05:00:00Z

In the Adagio, a movement dedicated to Bartok’s memory, quiet, floating dissonances sustained by the flute and clarinet created a subtle trembling effect that was unexpectedly poignant. Review: Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center Spotlights Albéric Magnard 2015-10-28T04:00:00Z

"Marcel the Shell with Shoes On" also features poignant observations on change as well as grief and rebirth. Jenny Slate on voicing the melancholy "Marcel the Shell" and creating a laugh "that's not creepy" 2022-06-24T04:00:00Z

It’s a poignant, creepy showcase for the deadpan Lakeith Stanfield and for Glover, who depicted entertainment culture as a mask for nightmares in “This Is America,” and here plays a monster made out of dreams. The Most Memorable TV Episodes of 2018 2018-12-24T05:00:00Z

But the admirably restrained work here of Foucheux and Jacobson not only skirts the more cloying possibilities, it also ensures that we experience fully the force of the show’s poignant authority. Willkommen once again to ‘Cabaret’ 2015-05-18T04:00:00Z

She was the first African American nominated for an Oscar; a clip of her poignant acceptance speech plays nearby. The Academy Museum Finds Good Intentions in Messy Film History 2021-09-30T04:00:00Z

As Happy, the younger son forever in pursuit of Dad’s affection, Finn Wittrock provides a funny, poignant and ripely detailed study in virile vanity as a defense system. Theater Review: ?Death of a Salesman,? With Philip Seymour Hoffman 2012-03-16T02:11:33Z

This is an especially poignant moment for Tyrion, who once acted as the King’s Hand to the most repugnant king imaginable. 8 Cathartic Moments From the Season Six Finale of 'Game of Thrones' 2016-06-27T04:00:00Z

“Between his talents and his experience, he would know how to play the moments — both the poignant moments and comedic moments — with great finesse and nuance.” Michael Douglas Refuses to Age Gracefully in ‘The Kominsky Method’ 2018-11-14T05:00:00Z

On the surface the narrator’s confessional, acutely detailed monologue hovers between long stretches of intense recitative and passages of lyrically enhanced arioso, sometimes poignant, sometimes chillingly detached. Review: In This One-Man Opera, It’s All in His Head 2016-09-08T04:00:00Z

"Mike McCartney's Early Liverpool" makes for a poignant, unforgettable journey. Travel back to "Mike McCartney's Early Liverpool" for a bird’s-eye view of the pre-fame Beatles 2022-01-09T05:00:00Z

The truly poignant, tragic part is that Hoffa’s absolute faith in Sheeran never wavers for a moment. The Irishman: the murder, the women, the ending – discuss with spoilers 2019-12-03T05:00:00Z

For all its surreal imagery, the film also has a poignant documentary value, offering a glimpse of a place, a time and an artistic sensibility that seem at once vivid and elusive. You Know These 20 Movies. Now Meet the Women Behind Them 2018-09-14T04:00:00Z

And then there’s a poignant “friendship album,” made in Nebraska around 1892 using a store-bought notebook, bound in a hand-sewn velvet cover. The 2,000-Year Story of Building the Book 2022-12-02T05:00:00Z

From the start of the poignant Introitus to this austerely beautiful piece, I was hooked. Before Bach, He Was Germany’s Greatest Composer 2020-03-20T04:00:00Z

It's especially poignant given the brisk resuscitation of the insurgency in Iraq over the past week. 'Made in L.A.' best in show: 5 must-see pieces at the Hammer biennial 2014-06-16T04:00:00Z

Columbus said he felt what Percy was going through in terms of discovering his identity and realizing who his father was "felt more poignant" at that teen stage. 'Percy Jackson' sequel hopes to lure in bigger U.S. audience 2013-08-06T12:02:03Z

The exception to the album’s flamboyance is Mr. O’Farrill’s poignant solo rendition of Irving Berlin’s “Get Thee Behind Me Satan.” ‘El Maquech’ Review: Big Sounds From a Small Group 2018-06-11T04:00:00Z

Ferris’s book is less polished, but ultimately it’s better for that raggedness — more poignant, more tragic. Book World Joshua Ferris’s ‘To Rise Again at a Decent Hour’

Even better was his Steadfast Tin Soldier last weekend, a role in which his solemnity becomes very poignant. Debuts at New York City Ballet 2014-05-18T04:00:00Z

Photograph: Aaron Tilley for the Guardian In an unremarkable business park outside the city of Ann Arbor, in Michigan, stands a poignant memorial to humanity's shattered dreams. Happiness is a glass half empty 2012-06-15T22:00:43Z

Her quest to do so is often amusing and sometimes poignant. Anna Quindlen’s No. 1 Rule for Grandparents: Butt Out 2019-04-23T04:00:00Z

She’s nominated this year for the soulful “Fight for You,” whose poignant lyrics from the “Judas and the Black Messiah” soundtrack were written by H.E.R., producer D’Mile and singer Tiara Thomas. Billie Eilish, Olivia Rodrigo could score big at Grammys 2022-04-03T04:00:00Z

The jarring juxtaposition of mortality and camp is a poignant reminder of how an afternoon of joy meant the world to a generation that didn’t have a minute of rage to spare. Celebrating Pride on Film 2020-06-01T04:00:00Z

Perhaps the most poignant moment is when, in an interview with radio personality Sway, he’s asked if there’s a special woman in his life. 'Empire' recap: Jamal's big break 2015-02-12T05:00:00Z

There’s something uncomfortable about the scene but also poignant. Moses Storm and the Case for Pretentious Modern Stand-up 2022-01-28T05:00:00Z

It seems no coincidence, in a book so poignant yet improbably funny, that Mr. Evison has chosen this particular illness. Books of The Times: ‘The Revised Fundamentals of Caregiving’ by Jonathan Evison 2012-08-27T21:49:53Z

Tucked between these portraits was a poignant movement dedicated to the mothers walking in the caravan of migrants headed for the American border. Review: An Orchestral Season That’s (Almost) Entirely Female 2018-11-05T05:00:00Z

"That's what I really wanted to nail with it – I wanted it to be poignant and funny at the same time," she said. Brandford Boase award goes to My Sister Lives on the Mantelpiece 2012-07-05T17:17:00Z

Janis Winehouse said she felt the work "was a good likeness" of her daughter, adding she felt it was "poignant" and the family was "very touched". Winehouse portrait sold for charity 2013-09-14T18:02:24Z

“David Hockney: Drawing From Life,” a poignant, viewer-friendly exhibition at the Morgan Library & Museum, is about loved ones and the complex, constantly morphing nature of relationships and the people who forge them. David Hockney: A Life in Drawing 2020-10-01T04:00:00Z

The poignant reinterpretation highlights the generational plight that immigrants and their American-born children face as they try to communicate with one another. Andy Garcia Is the Father of the Bride in More Ways Than One 2022-06-17T04:00:00Z

The Indians’ struggles are chronicled in Port Louis’s poignant Aapravasi Ghat museum, at the immigration depot turned Unesco World Heritage site where they first came ashore. In Mauritius, Secluded Beaches, Verdant Hills and Harmony 2017-08-16T04:00:00Z

While this is a first-person documentary, with the director providing voice-over narration, it expresses a poignant humility and a patient willingness to listen. ‘My Imaginary Country’ Review: Chile in Revolt 2022-09-22T04:00:00Z

In one of the film's more poignant scenes, he recalls an instance in which the costume was vandalized by a group of teens. Caroll Spinney's proudly worn Big Bird's yellow feathers for 45 years 2014-06-19T04:00:00Z

In nonfiction, we recommend Diane Johnson’s classic biography “The True History of the First Mrs. Meredith,” along with Joe Meno’s poignant odyssey of two Ghanaian men seeking refuge in the United States. 10 New Books We Recommend This Week 2020-07-02T04:00:00Z

And at the end, which is supposed to be heartbreakingly poignant, there were titters and snickers from the audience at the advanced screening I attended. ‘Pompeii’: Lots of noise and smoke but little substance 2014-02-20T19:49:26Z

The show’s title work is a poignant oil-on-canvas rendering of a photograph his father took after McCauley left home. Robert McCauley’s paintings combine playful appearance with serious intent 2017-10-24T04:00:00Z

Because children leaving home is a very big and poignant moment. How to cope with empty-nest syndrome – without being gutted by grief 2018-10-25T04:00:00Z

Consider this film a master class in world-building, a bewildering but poignant dream — one that will leave you with plenty of burning questions. ‘No. 7 Cherry Lane’ Review: A Heady Daydream in 1967 Hong Kong 2021-07-01T04:00:00Z

Stories We Tell is a poignant experience for the viewer and was more painful for the director. Sarah Polley's Stories We Tell: Secrets and Lies 2012-09-05T18:21:19Z

To hear the song become slow, moving and emotive was certainly a poignant illustration of what happens when classical traditions get their hands on folk roots. Spirituals become slow art in well-meaning concert 2015-11-08T05:00:00Z

A few numbers, such as Taylor’s “Millwork” and Schwartz’s “It’s an Art,” about waiting tables, distill in poignant or witty fashion the mini-dramas of American toil. Perspective | Restaged in front of the AFL-CIO’s national headquarters, ‘Working’ the musical labors to be a vehicle for activism 2021-09-07T04:00:00Z

That is what the Philharmonic should reflect on in the wake of Wednesday’s sober, poignant performance. 400 Days Later, the New York Philharmonic Returns 2021-04-15T04:00:00Z

Thinking she is alone, she starts to show her poignant loveliness. All About Odette, Tchaikovsky’s Swan Queen 2018-06-12T04:00:00Z

With her mohawk and vibrato-tinged voice, she cut a striking figure as she delivered big songs streaked with poignant, personal touches. 300,000's a crowd at packed Lollapalooza 2013-07-29T17:54:00Z

His lower register is unexpectedly resonant, and his falsetto sweetly poignant. Music Review: The Dark Lady and Judy Garland Play the Muses 2010-12-07T22:15:00Z

Less willfully cerebral than the author’s earlier masterworks, “Mason & Dixon” demonstrates Mr. Pynchon’s ability to tell a story that is as poignant as it is daring, as moving as it is tirelessly inventive. | Books: Thomas Pynchon’s ‘Mason & Dixon’ 2012-06-21T21:41:15Z

The lovelorn girls sinking in tears are poignant, for all their energy, and they turn into the strange late nudes. Lichtenstein: A Retrospective – review 2013-02-24T00:05:48Z

If an album can be both thrashy and poignant, "Memorial" is it. Band runs Russian Circles around cliches 2014-03-13T15:03:11Z

The historic chapel proved an especially poignant setting. 4x4 Baroque Music Festival Presents ‘The Grand Overture’ 2014-09-14T04:00:00Z

More poignant still are the portraits of the empresses Josephine and Maria Louisa on the walls, and on the fireplace mantel the bust of the so-called King of Rome, Napoleon’s legitimate son. Footsteps: St. Helena, ?Cursed Rock? of Napoleon?s Exile 2012-03-30T18:21:46Z

An outgrowth of Smith’s recent work “Broken Theater,” it is a wry, sometimes uproarious and poignant metatheatrical riff on the process of creation. In a Jam-Packed Weekend at Ojai, a Musical Family Gathers 2022-06-14T04:00:00Z

Dowd is poignant in these scenes because she is not asking for pity; she is unburdening to the only audience that, however pained, might understand her singular experience. The heartrending "Mass" is a somber and intimate look at the survivors of a horrific crime 2021-01-31T05:00:00Z

For the Irish couple, knowing the poignant backstory behind the bottle made their unexpected finding even more meaningful, they said. A message in a bottle that traveled 3,200 miles helped heal a Maryland boy’s grief 2022-01-24T05:00:00Z

When members of the royal family traveled to Buckingham Palace last week to receive the queen’s coffin as it arrived from Scotland, pearls emerged as an item of poignant homage. Queen Elizabeth: A Visual Dictionary 2022-09-19T04:00:00Z

Gwendolyn Warnock, one of the creators of “Baby Universe,” a poignant puppet play inspired by Stephen Hawking’s theoretical physics, said the new piece required the company to extend itself technically. Cyborgs Onstage, Robots in the Wings 2010-12-30T23:58:33Z

Her Odette reveals a capacity for voluptuous passion within doomed captivity; her Odile is extraordinarily cool, enigmatic, even poignant, notwithstanding sweeping brilliance. Review: ‘Swan Lake’ Features an Authoritative Sara Mearns 2015-09-23T04:00:00Z

We accepted sweet granola bars and orange juice passed by one of Ms. Eliot’s friends, sang along when invited and some even teared up during a poignant spoken-word piece composed by Ms. Eliot. Things to Do in N.Y.C. This Weekend 2018-08-16T04:00:00Z

Her ability to forgive him is poignant, showing she is capable of change herself. Revenge never tasted so deliciously venomous in the slick and twisty "Promising Young Woman" 2020-12-24T05:00:00Z

Her Dorothea Lange is at her most poignant in her interactions with her elder son, Daniel, a skittish, troubled boy, scarred by his abandonment. Review | How Dorothea Lange ended up capturing the Great Depression — and becoming an influential photographer 2019-01-31T05:00:00Z

In her poignant and imaginative new novel, “Pure Colour,” Sheila Heti opens with an unusual concept: Humans are bears, fish or birds. Sheila Heti Is Still Asking Questions 2022-02-03T05:00:00Z

The book's metronomic deconstruction of its principals' young adulthood laid bare a poignant but little acknowledged feature of the lives we currently lead. One Day: a waste of a good tome 2011-08-24T09:51:15Z

In the film’s most poignant vignette, Franklin is lifted by an aide and carried from the garden into the house. Hyde Park on Hudson: FDR, His Mistresses and the King 2012-12-06T18:00:05Z

He painted a poignant picture: himself and his wife at the comedy awards, Mrs McIntyre in a new dress she'd bought specially, their excitement ruined by nasty comments from fellow comedians. Harry Potter and the Deadly Dullards 2011-07-23T23:06:50Z

A contest like this is like Billy Wilder’s poignant “The Apartment” taking the prize instead of Alfred Hitchcock’s game-changer “Psycho.” Top five most unjust awards: Tales of Oscar outrages past 2017-02-26T05:00:00Z

But the show doesn’t just break ground; it digs up the memories that are buried there, both joyful and tragic, and airs them in poignant and intelligent ways. Gay New York: a guide to clubs, bars, drag shows and queer culture 2015-11-05T05:00:00Z

It’s both medium and message, inevitably coded with information not only about the words being uttered — is this a poignant reflection, or a lighthearted anecdote? — but the identity of the speaker. Saidu Tejan-Thomas Jr. and the Voices of ‘Resistance’ 2021-02-25T05:00:00Z

Her blog entries are often poignant, detailing a teenage seizure, or the time she lost custody of her first child. Kristin Hersh 2010-07-24T23:04:00Z

As Gus, the theater cat, Christopher Gurr delivers a poignant reminiscence of a career on the stage in one of the show’s most softly lyrical, moving songs. Review: Does ‘Cats’ Have Nine Lives on Broadway? Two, Certainly 2016-07-31T04:00:00Z

This was defiant, ritualistic music — aggressive and forlorn, but with poignant warmth from its creation as a duo. Planned Before War, a Festival Embraces New Ukrainian Music 2022-03-21T04:00:00Z

The portraits amount, at first glance, to a poignant memorial, honoring the grace and brio of a mother who dominates most every frame. A Daughter’s Ghostly Re-Creations of Her Late Mother’s Old Photographs 2019-03-25T04:00:00Z

Alex Wyndham narrates this revelatory, amusing, often poignant amalgam of science and family history in a dark, undulant baritone, a voice that could be that of a big, kindly eel. Review | Three audiobooks to listen to now 2020-07-06T04:00:00Z

Bargemusic, the popular floating concert hall docked near the Brooklyn Bridge, is an especially poignant place for a Sept. 11 memorial. A Sept. 11 Memorial at Bargemusic and a Juilliard Faculty Show 2016-09-07T04:00:00Z

But the galloping retrospective of his dogged, wide-ranging trek through the colors and styles of his time showing at the Neue Galerie has the poignant appeal of a war diary. From Alexei Jawlensky, Abstract Faces at Full Intensity 2017-03-09T05:00:00Z

Words are few for these puppets with moon-shaped faces who, like mimes, express everything in evocative, poignant gestures. On Java, a Creative Explosion in an Ancient City 2016-02-11T05:00:00Z

His "craftsmanship as a songwriter who expressed universal feelings with poignant simplicity" was also cited by Pulitzer. Mental health drama wins Pulitzer 2010-04-13T15:29:00Z

What follows is the poignant story of the two men’s unequal dance of need and longing. Come as you are 2016-01-21T05:00:00Z

There’s something wonderfully poignant and sweet about Grey Worm and Missandei’s incessant shy glances and fluttered eyelashes. Game of Thrones season seven: five things we learned from the newest trailer 2017-06-21T04:00:00Z

Like his turn in the poignant "Columbus," Cho is in low-key mode here as Max is both sensible and overprotective. John Cho on road trips, his go-to karaoke songs and approach to life: "I'm very open to risk" 2022-07-15T04:00:00Z

"My production company, These Pictures, actively pursues projects that both entertain and push boundaries. We look forward to working with every community to bring these most poignant and important stories to audiences worldwide." Scarlett Johansson withdraws from “Rub and Tug” amid backlash over her “insensitive” casting 2018-07-13T04:00:00Z

As they embrace, Gosling and Williams look for a poignant moment like Robert De Niro and Cathy Moriarty in Scorsese's Raging Bull. Blue Valentine ? review 2011-01-13T15:00:00Z

But among his most poignant work are laments of what the bucolic land of his childhood has become and poems about other conflicts around the globe. A Poet's Return Home to Thailand's Violent South 2010-10-20T16:28:00Z

It was an important piece of bearing witness, made poignant by the presence of Reynolds’s tiny daughter. Perspective | Facebook still denies what it is. The Cleveland murder shows how. 2017-04-18T04:00:00Z

“The messages couldn’t be more poignant for our current social climate and needs as humanity.” AP Exclusive: The Dalai Lama to release 1st album in July 2020-06-09T04:00:00Z

The Book of Joan: Tales of Mirth, Mischief and Manipulation will contain “funny, poignant, and irreverent observations, thoughts, and tales about” Joan Rivers, who died last September after complications from surgery, People reports. Joan Rivers' Daughter Writes a Book About Her Life 2015-02-11T05:00:00Z

They aspired to create not just a family but a haven, a dream all the more poignant given their histories. Michael Hutchence: in the eye of the storm 2017-10-29T04:00:00Z

The choir sounded radiant in the poignant “Rejoice, O Virgin,” singing with a hushed, intense intimacy that bloomed into a full-blooded, gorgeous sheen. Music Review: Clarion Choir in Rachmaninoff’s Vespers 2014-01-02T22:39:23Z

Those volumes carry especially poignant “spine poetry,” as Mr. Mandiberg put it. Moving Wikipedia From Computer to Many, Many Bookshelves 2015-06-16T04:00:00Z

The wedding was a poignant way to end the episode, but the emotions it wrung out felt largely unearned. Downton Abbey Watch: House of Despair 2012-01-30T13:30:25Z

That’s because for all of the poignant and comical moments in Season 5 — and there are plenty — there is also a lot of filler. Review | ‘Orange Is the New Black’ returns: ‘You’ve Got Time’? Good. You’re gonna need it. 2017-06-08T04:00:00Z

Equally poignant is the inclusion of Rogers Stirk Harbour's One Hyde Park, given that the practice was supported by London's former mayor on the grounds of its supposedly world-class design. Constructive criticism: the week in architecture 2011-07-22T16:02:37Z

In Conall Morrison's production, the tensions are finely balanced, with Aaron Monaghan bringing a poignant sense of injury to the role of Manus. Translations ? review 2011-07-19T18:00:05Z

It is always poignant to see people like Riva back on centre stage, because in many ways they represent the history of cinema. Riva, 85, poised to make history 2013-02-06T16:48:13Z

“Christopher Robin,” unlike last year’s poignant and profound “Goodbye Christopher Robin,” is not a biographical film about Milne and his son, after whom the character was named. The Moral Clarity of “Christopher Robin” 2018-08-23T04:00:00Z

The tragically early death of River Phoenix makes it even more poignant. 'Absolutely kills me': you pick your saddest movie scenes 2018-05-19T04:00:00Z

One called “American Painting” is multiply dated “1932/1942-54,” indicating that it is the product of several revisionist campaigns, of which there is poignant internal evidence. Stuart Davis, Heady Abstract Realist, at the Whitney 2016-06-09T04:00:00Z

Carion's version of events is sentimental and not entirely plausible – it seems the Germans had a famous opera singer serving as a lowly private in their ranks – but nevertheless poignant. TV highlights 20/12/2012 2012-12-21T10:01:02Z

Perhaps the film’s most poignant footage is of newly hatched sea turtles in Florida that are confused about where the ocean is because of lights around the nesting grounds. | 'The City Dark': ?The City Dark,? a Documentary by Ian Cheney - Review 2012-01-17T23:15:50Z

Scene after scene is poignant and agonizing, and it’s the patients, finally, who are blunt about their situations. Review: ‘Being Mortal’ and ‘The Forgotten Plague’ Explore Death and Disease 2015-02-09T05:00:00Z

The present-day Ms. Davis is shown mostly from behind and heard in voice-over, though there is one poignant close-up of her face. Betty Davis Was a Raw Funk Pioneer. Her Decades of Silence Are Over. 2018-05-22T04:00:00Z

It was a poignant reminder of art’s ability to elucidate and console, a bittersweet way to measure a year. The Unforgettable Theater Moments of 2018 2018-12-21T05:00:00Z

It's helped by the poignant interplay between Carpenter and Schreiber, who make their most extreme behavior endearing. Terrific actors face off in "Gruesome" play 2011-02-01T03:36:14Z

In the end, it is a poignant eye for images of eerie emptiness that makes Shaw special. George Shaw's prophetic art of neglect 2011-04-04T10:40:17Z

It’s astonishing; it’s so funny and poignant, it had me laughing and crying with great regularity. Nick Offerman on 'great scam artist' Tom Sawyer and his favorite writers 2016-07-08T04:00:00Z

The gorgeous melody, which Waller co-wrote with Harry Brooks, also throbs with pain, a poignant evocation of life in an America still striving to live up to its potential. Fats Waller says he 'Ain't Misbehavin',' but the party's going strong at La Mirada Theatre 2017-09-19T04:00:00Z

But as his voice warmed through his performance as Rodolfo on Friday, what started off as coolness came to feel more like poignant reserve. Review: In ‘La Bohème’ at the Met, the Star Is in the Pit 2023-04-23T04:00:00Z

‘WINTERREISE’ Last year, the piercingly poignant tenor Mark Padmore sang this classic Schubert song cycle to open Lincoln Center’s White Light Festival. Classical Music to Come: A Finnish Star, Minimalism and Wagner 2016-09-16T04:00:00Z

This bittersweet show is a poignant reminder of the polymorphous talent and erudition of the poet, painter, aesthete and man about town Rene Ricard, who died in February at the age of 67. Rene Ricard: ‘Remember’ 2014-09-04T04:00:00Z

The resulting book is funny, poignant, dishy and even enlightening, all at the same time. It’s Not Just the Story of Drag in Brooklyn, It’s the Story of America 2022-06-10T04:00:00Z

The stakes are grimmer and considerably more persuasive in “A Thousand and One,” the poignant feature debut of A.V. At Last Back at Sundance, Filled With Rocky Relationships and Glorious Writers 2023-01-27T05:00:00Z

Old survivalist ingenuity seems strangely poignant — exhausted and even obsolete in the barren world outside. Frank Gohlke photographs vernacular truths in 'Texas Memories' 2016-12-13T05:00:00Z

He works that into many of his dances, nowhere more distinctly than in “Esplanade,” where unalloyed joy is interrupted by images of isolation and a poignant, fruitless quest for connection. Paul Taylor’s vintage works and classic joys 2016-05-26T04:00:00Z

The first was that it would be more poignant to show her subjects happy. Arbus, Untitled and Unearthly 2018-11-15T05:00:00Z

Some episodes are all-out farce, some episodes are political, some episodes are poignant. Modern Family, Line Of Duty, Louie: Jason Isaacs's favourite TV 2013-05-20T11:00:00Z

“I Called Him Morgan,” a suave and poignant documentary by Kasper Collin, dusts off the details of Morgan’s life and death and brushes away the sensationalism, too. Review: ‘I Called Him Morgan,’ a Jazz Tale of Talent and Tragedy 2017-03-23T04:00:00Z

But at the same time — and this is true when it happens in a workshop, too — it feels a little cheap to turn the central character’s genuinely poignant longing and trauma into a scavenger hunt. This Novel Is Set in a ’90s M.F.A. Program. The Author Is Aware of Your Concerns. 2020-02-25T05:00:00Z

Even though it is not one of Tennessee Williams' strongest works, the mesmerizing set and the injection of Sicilian folk music are effective and poignant touches. Review: Marisa Tomei, in Extremis, in ‘The Rose Tattoo’ 2016-07-10T04:00:00Z

Disarmingly poignant, startlingly philosophical and ultimately revolutionary, “On the Town” gets away with murder. Bernstein by the Bay: S.F. Symphony brilliantly delivers 'On the Town' 2016-05-30T04:00:00Z

This is one of the most inventive memoirs of recent years, poignant and improbable as it nimbly sidesteps all the pitfalls of animal sentimentality. Chloe Shaw on when she first asked, "What Is a Dog?": "I wrote from a place of specified grief" 2021-07-25T04:00:00Z

The best writing here is surprising and poignant, and shows Giovanni’s strength and originality. Best new poetry: Mary Oliver, Nikki Giovanni and Maggie Smith 2017-10-24T04:00:00Z

That he did, but his own poignant love songs, including “New England,” were the most magical moments during a night of many highlights. Billy Bragg warm and inspiring at Neptune Wednesday 2013-04-04T19:17:18Z

The poignant “Weeks on the Train” brings together delicate rendering and Gustonian roughness from a giddy overhead view that could be called bird’s-eye or concerned parent. Nicole Eisenman, Fluidly Merging Past, Present and Future 2016-06-02T04:00:00Z

And if Mr. Morris’s voice has lost some heft and richness, he sang Sachs with poignant insight and character when the production returned on Dec. 2. Volle Takes His Turn in ‘Die Meistersinger’ 2014-12-14T05:00:00Z

It tells the poignant story of a young boy who follows his grandmother in a journey across Iraq in the hope of finding her son and his father, who never returned from war. Raindance film festival announces controversial lineup 2010-09-07T15:10:00Z

But the weirdness is also captivating., and poignant And maybe it’s necessary. Girls Watch: Last Sexit to Brooklyn 2013-02-11T13:00:26Z

Instead she thanked mothers and parents everywhere - including a poignant tribute to her own mother - along with her fellow nominees and "everyone who's shown me kindness when it wasn't fashionable." Jesse James apologizes to Sandra Bullock, his kids 2010-03-18T22:16:00Z

But only a handful of the items bear a poignant but personal connection to the singer, his three children and famous family. Contents of Jackson's final home reach auction 2011-12-12T00:22:23Z

It is a beautiful but poignant novel about the changes brought by modern technology and civilisation, and of a girl stuck between two cultures. Emma Barnes's top 10 books with wolves 2012-08-09T13:42:22Z

A comedy that is sharp but not cruel, a drama that is poignant but not sentimental, an informative and unflinching look at fertility treatments — “Private Life” is all those things. The Best Movies of 2018 2018-12-05T05:00:00Z

Watching Farrell spin tales of imagined Mediterranean holiday destinations, or do things for the woman he loves, is achingly poignant. Colin Farrell's best, most quietly smoldering roles, from "Banshees of Inisherin" to "Phone Booth" 2023-03-10T05:00:00Z

In the most poignant moments of the discussion, Harry described his decision, years after his mother died, to look at pictures taken after her car crash in Paris. Here’s What We Learned From Prince Harry’s Interviews 2023-01-08T05:00:00Z

With that context we see the delightful art from “Knuffle Bunny” in a more poignant and serious light. Mo Willems and the Art of the Children’s Book 2016-03-17T04:00:00Z

One of the most basic, yet simultaneously most poignant, of these lessons is that we humans tend to do better overall when connected to one another. From dinner parties to "thanks for helping me move" pizza, I grieve for communal food experiences 2021-10-11T04:00:00Z

A particularly poignant theme is Susan's gradual realisation that the feminist revolution has come just a little too late for her, as she wrestles with her daughter Laurie's radical views on sex and society. Swingtown: box set review 2013-02-28T13:30:02Z

If, that is, you can make out the words, which, at a guess, say powerfully poignant things about the ineffable sadness of the human condition and the terrible beauty of our lives. New band of the day ? No 759: Faded Glory 2010-04-01T09:38:00Z

Drawing on Rortyan pragmatism, Redmond insists that natural disasters are poignant only from our human point of view and "not because they are breaking an imaginary law of nature". Poetry and Privacy by John Redmond – review 2013-06-21T17:30:00Z

Poor pacing and editing result in a lack of transition between scenes; poignant moments are punctuated with distracting music; and the dialogue is overstuffed with platitudes that land like corny messages from fortune cookies. Movie Review: ‘Once Upon a Time in Mumbai Dobaara,’ a Gangster Sequel 2013-08-16T20:50:01Z

For all the artifice of their outfits, the queens make themselves emotionally naked for us, by turns poignant, comic, vulnerable and heroic. RuPaul: ‘Drag is a big f-you to male-dominated culture’ 2018-03-03T05:00:00Z

There was also this surprisingly poignant Bruno Mars digital short about a man who takes a job dressing up as a patriotic mouse who greets tourists in Times Square. From “Corner Boys Brooklyn” to “Lazy Sunday,” “SNL”‘s best NYC-centric sketches 2015-01-20T05:00:00Z

A climactic depiction, in an archival photo, of the original “Star Trek” cast pushes in the knife of nostalgia and gives it a poignant twist. A Quasi-American “Star Trek Beyond” 2016-07-25T04:00:00Z

There are Amazon reviews underneath almost every title—Internet comments intruding on your book purchase by design. A snippet underneath Rachel Dolezal’s memoir urges readers to check out its “poignant depth.” Amazon’s Brick-and-Mortar Bookstores Are Not Built for People Who Actually Read 2017-05-30T04:00:00Z

Those kicked life into the studio audience, but at a cost: the comedown diverts some of the vitality away from the poignant conversation that followed about how dictatorships rise out of democracies. "The Problem with Jon Stewart" has a few issues, but nothing that a little tough love can't fix 2021-09-30T04:00:00Z

Kate Manx, Mr. Stevens’s wife at the time, plays the porcelain beauty Ann; her expertise at portraying vulnerability is made more poignant by the knowledge that she took her own life in 1964. Review: Once Lost, ‘Private Property’ Is a Genuine Rediscovery 2016-06-30T04:00:00Z

Photograph 51” allows her to capitalize on this persona to enlightening and unexpectedly poignant effect. Review: In ‘Photograph 51,’ Nicole Kidman Is a Steely DNA Scientist 2015-09-14T04:00:00Z

In another poignant touch, the offstage chorus here becomes a roster mostly of bookish-looking, baffled present-day witnesses to the events, trying to fathom what happened. ‘The Passenger’ at the Park Avenue Armory 2014-07-11T04:00:00Z

The song choices are often surprising — for example, a Christmas-themed episode with holiday classics and some unexpected cuts — or poignant, as in a Replacements song used during a pivotal romantic moment between two characters. "There's an underscore of melancholy": "The Bear" producer breaks down season's best needle drops 2023-07-08T04:00:00Z

His style suits the poignant, tragic story beautifully. Review: ‘The Manchurian Candidate,’ Eagerly Awaited, Has Premiere in St. Paul 2015-03-09T04:00:00Z

Ms. Zambello sets this scene in a blighted urban area, under a shoddy highway overpass: a poignant image. Critic?s Notebook: To Seal a Director?s Reputation, Put a ?Ring? on It 2011-07-04T21:00:06Z

It's poignant and inspiring, but it isn't exactly comedy. How Edinburgh standups are dealing with the riots 2011-08-10T19:00:02Z

Like any reality show, SubwayCreatures focuses on the bizarre, the sensational, the comic and, occasionally and for good measure, the surprisingly poignant. Did You See That Video of the Subway Rat Hauling the Crab? 2021-10-16T04:00:00Z

Their rendition of “Mary, Did You Know?” is poignant and elegantly spacious, almost nervy in its conviction, and “I Heard the Bells on Christmas Day” has an unlikely echo of Extreme’s “More Than Words.” 20 Albums That Put a New Spin on the Holidays 2020-12-10T05:00:00Z

Achilles, in Brad Pitt's portrayal, was not a half-god killing machine whose awesome martial fury made his regrets about the war majestically, achingly poignant: he was more like an irritable surfer. 'Clash of the Titans': Ancient Greece and Us 2010-03-19T20:01:00Z

Particularly poignant is the story of Cody Curtis, who goes back and forth on her choice as her liver cancer comes and goes. Your guide to SIFF 2011 2011-05-18T20:00:54Z

Her first collections of short stories were set in London and Dublin and featured sharp and poignant observations of characters of those cities. Maeve Binchy, bestselling Irish writer, dies aged 72 2012-07-30T23:18:52Z

His silence is an eloquent and poignant counterpoint to Ms. McKinney’s garrulity; the drama of “Tabloid” resides in the asymmetry between them. Captivating Films, Complicated Truths 2011-07-23T00:03:17Z

"The Missing of the Somme," by Geoff Dyer, is as elegant and poignant as it is slim. 'The Missing of the Somme': Geoff Dyer on the lingering losses of WWI 2011-08-31T21:32:07Z

Such worries are, however, compensated for by the film's engaging, often poignant characterisations. Mystery Road - Sydney film festival review 2013-06-06T00:54:00Z

The scene is a poignant valentine to her matrilineage and to how she was shaped by the embellishments that came before. Jenny Slate’s Netflix Special Is All About the Joy of Getting Dressed 2019-10-29T04:00:00Z

With this fantastical novel, he’s managed to capture the poignant paradox of loving troubled children. Review | Children burst into flames in Kevin Wilson’s ‘Nothing to See Here’ 2019-11-04T05:00:00Z

Siegmund lifts Sieglinde’s sleeping body and walks with her so that her toes are dragging on the floor, a strangely poignant intertwining of love and death. Review: The Met Opera’s Next ‘Ring’ Will Be a Sea Change 2021-11-21T05:00:00Z

It was a rich offering — and a beautiful, poignant, reverent one. Review | Jason Moran offers sublime tribute to WWI hero and ragtime pioneer James Reese Europe 2018-12-09T05:00:00Z

Morgan imbues Louisa with poignant grace, and Davis makes priggishly pious Anna less of a cartoon than she might otherwise be. Michael John LaChiusa's musical 'Rain' is just too outdated to remain relevant 2016-04-05T04:00:00Z

Its patient pace and poetic tone, as it follows events, mundane and poignant, in the lives of a few Black families in the county, also infuse the photographs he has made there. In Hale County, Alabama, Two Visions of Place 2023-01-12T05:00:00Z

As their different titles suggest, his first volume, Red Carpets and Other Banana Skins, is gossipy and light; the second is reflective, poignant and wistful. Rupert Everett: 'Sex is over. I'm not motivated by it any more' 2013-04-21T07:30:01Z

The words of this song were therefore so poignant for us, especially as I was hearing it for the first time. Family life 2011-08-19T23:05:40Z

He’s brilliant and brings so much to his character’s poignant relationship with his outdated synth, which holds all the memories of his dead wife. Gemma Chan Explains the Art of Being a Robot on ‘Humans’ 2015-06-26T04:00:00Z

Ms. Lloyd added that the festival had become particularly poignant in light of recent Dutch government cuts in arts financing. Spare Times: For Children, for Jan. 13-19 2012-01-12T22:22:26Z

A woman’s poignant obituary written by her brother is touching hearts on social media. Brother’s heartfelt obituary for sister goes viral: ‘I needed you too’ 2021-09-22T04:00:00Z

Visitors are invited to engage in slow observation of Mary Coss’ exhibition “2nd Amendment BookClub,” a poignant exploration of gun culture. April 8 is Slow Art Day; here are some ways to take it easy with art 2017-04-06T04:00:00Z

While at its core "All the Old Knives" is a poignant reunion between a couple who were once passionate lovers, it is also a tense cat-and-mouse game between skilled operatives. Olen Steinhauer's new novel reunites spies with a shared history 2015-03-20T04:00:00Z

It's a lovely and poignant story, brought tears to my eyes. ‘I Became a Thanksgiving Orphan’ 2017-11-14T05:00:00Z

Dear Amy: Your reply to "Maybe Auntie," who wasn't sure about the actual parentage of her "maybe" niece or nephew, was both beautiful and poignant! Perspective | Ask Amy: Man finds that living with his folks isn’t a turn-on 2018-08-20T04:00:00Z

“For Madeline,” composed by Mr. Gordon in memory of his mother, was a miracle of juxtaposed moods, aptly hazy, anxious and poignant at once. Music Review: Bang on a Can Features Louis Andriessen at Zankel - Review 2011-11-06T22:48:18Z

It’s a poignant read for everyone this month, Slavery and Human Trafficking Prevention Month, as America’s presidential primary voting season is poised to begin. When the past is present: What slave narratives teach us about our greatest human desire 2016-01-18T05:00:00Z

Before the riders leave the battlefields behind and attack the Alps, one last, poignant reminder of World War I awaits. Tour de France marks World War I centennial 2014-06-27T04:00:00Z

Williams' observations about his sister Rose are especially poignant. Jim Parsons and Zachary Quinto give voice to the prickly friendship of authors "Truman & Tennessee" 2021-06-19T04:00:00Z

It felt especially poignant with the inclusion of real-life people who agreed to go on camera to discuss having recently lost their jobs in the recession. 5 films about the financial crisis you can bank on 2012-11-29T23:48:09Z

“When I went through ‘My Passion for Design’ I kept notes about anything that caused any intense reaction in me, anything that I thought was funny or poignant or crazy,” Tolins said. Michael Urie thrives in ‘Buyer & Cellar,’ a story of Barbra Streisand that she’s unlikely to see

“Flowers” requires the pianist to speak as well as play, in this case a text from Dickens’s “Little Dorrit,” music and text interweaving in a poignant portrait of loss. Pianist Frederic Rzewski, Del Sol Quartet perform at Library of Congress 2016-05-01T04:00:00Z

This one was very specifically poignant to what is happening today in this country, in society and also in my life. Taye Diggs Has a New Title: Football Coach 2018-10-12T04:00:00Z

At a time of swelling poverty rates in the U.S., it's a story that couldn't be more poignant.  Street kids, poverty and fortitude: Photographer Mary Ellen Mark's stirring last project 2015-09-28T04:00:00Z

The film, available on Netflix and elsewhere through Shorts.TV, is a poignant meditation on loss. "If Anything Happens I Love You" is an animated "distillation of grief" from a school shooting 2021-04-19T04:00:00Z

What follows is a poignant quartet of linked novellas: one for each sibling as an adult. Review | Does living forever sound ideal? These 5 new books will change your mind. 2018-01-23T05:00:00Z

Especially poignant – and featuring trademark Ballardian imagery – is one of the two letters written from his wife, Mary, to his sister Margaret, while they were on holiday in Spain in 1964. JG Ballard: Relics of a red-hot mind 2011-08-04T08:17:13Z

The relationships that emerge from within and between the opposing camps are steeped in a poignant multifacetedness, as sworn enemies find themselves tentatively speaking the language of friendship. Review: A Byzantine Path to Middle East Peace in ‘Oslo’ 2016-07-11T04:00:00Z

The poignant juxtaposition of the ancient and the new is central to the story “Bankers” as well. ‘The World Goes On’ — and So Do the Sentences 2018-01-12T05:00:00Z

It’s on this last point that the story moves toward the collateral victims of Dr. Voorhees’s murder and offers its most poignant insights. Joyce Carol Oates’s new novel arrives splattered with our country’s hot blood 2017-01-30T05:00:00Z

In his frank and poignant first book, Jollett tries to capture the path to discovering the forces that shaped him. Review | From cult to Stanford to stardom: ‘Hollywood Park’ traces an indie rocker’s tumultuous path 2020-05-29T04:00:00Z

The exhibition includes many unsolved riddles, such as a poignant painting of a dead soldier in armour, bought as a Velásquez, which inspired another masterpiece, Edouard Manet's The Dead Toreador.  National Gallery: an art exhibition where nothing is what it seems 2010-06-29T16:06:00Z

He wears designer suits but his underwear, cheap Russian tighty-whities, is poignant. A Red-Hot Affair With a Younger Man, and the Writing It Kindled 2022-09-19T04:00:00Z

“The Wandering Soap Opera” begins and ends with black-and-white still photographs of Ruiz on the set, poignant reminders of his indefatigable creativity and tenacious productivity. ‘The Wandering Soap Opera’ Review: An Excursion Into Raúl Ruiz’s Fertile Mind 2019-05-15T04:00:00Z

The work, “We are obliged to learn life’s inevitable lessons and they are not easy,” is a poignant depiction of racial violence. The World Grieves for Millions. An Artist Grieves for One. 2021-02-16T05:00:00Z

But The Times recorded these and many, many other modern fitness fads, an exhausting — and often poignant — chronicle of pain, gain and some very peculiar practices. The Eternal Treadmill of Fitness Trends: From Hot Pants to Hot Mess 2019-01-09T05:00:00Z

The opera consists of these poignant aphorisms, made anonymous by the omission of sources. David Lang’s ‘whisper opera’ Mines Truths From the Web 2013-08-02T18:57:04Z

In this poignant comic novel, a depressed young woman agrees to take care of 10-year-old twins who burst into flames when they get angry. 50 notable works of fiction in 2019 2019-11-19T05:00:00Z

That such monumental, comical figures harbor such poignant emotions is what makes them more than just oversized tchotchkes. 2010-02-16T22:40:00Z

Afterward, Bronfman served up a meltingly beautiful rendition of the poignant Chopin Etude Opus 10, No. 3 as an encore. With a farewell on the horizon, Zubin Mehta's concert with the Israel Philharmonic is a triumph 2017-11-01T04:00:00Z

Completed only this year because of financial reasons, this usually poignant work of land art is represented here by a film by Petra Noordkamp that ends the show on a high note. Alberto Burri, a Man of Steel, and Burlap 2015-10-08T04:00:00Z

But the series, based on the Newberry-winning novel in verse by Kwame Alexander, is more like a junior version of “David Makes Man,” poetic and poignant, stylized and smart. How Much Watching Time Do You Have This Weekend? 2023-04-06T04:00:00Z

But so did I, because in the end this is a musically rich, audacious and inexplicably poignant work. Opera Review: ?Anna Nicole? Reimagined at Covent Garden 2011-02-18T04:59:19Z

Maybe it was the slight sense of rueful nostalgia permeating Clinton’s speech that made his move-in day story so poignant to me. Don DeLillo and Move-In Day 2016-09-06T04:00:00Z

There are big, flashy dance numbers, poignant solos and plenty of glittery costumes. Tammy Faye Bakker and Televangelism Make the Jump to the London Stage 2022-10-21T04:00:00Z

In Phyllida Lloyd's 2011 film The Iron Lady, she had become a lonely and confused old dear, whose flashes of grandeur and hauteur at political soirées were the more poignant for being so fleeting. Margaret Thatcher: the Iron Lady of British film 2013-04-09T07:00:06Z

Even though the characters aren't always likable, their pained awareness is poignant. '10,000 Km' navigates long-distance couple's cyber disconnect 2015-07-09T04:00:00Z

This conflict sets the stage for a reckoning and rebirth by poignant, if morally objectionable, means. ‘Wet Season’ Review: Teacher’s Pet 2021-04-22T04:00:00Z

Mem is a short, satisfying work made poignant by Elsie’s voice. Review | Best science fiction and fantasy books out this month 2018-05-02T04:00:00Z

Barney is beguiled by these basic questions, which is what makes his overreaching ambition so poignant. Review | Who wants to join the cult of video artist Matthew Barney? 2019-03-08T05:00:00Z

But perhaps what's driven so many to write about the Titanic and imagine that night is its most poignant legacy: its status as the "Ship of Dreams." The Titanic sinks again, on stage and screen 2012-04-04T23:27:04Z

Many also engaged with death, she added, which “feels quite poignant and prudent in this catastrophic year.” ‘Great Circle,’ ‘Bewilderment’ Among Booker Prize Finalists 2021-09-14T04:00:00Z

It could be the eerily poignant performance of Emily Davis as Reality Winner, the National Security Agency contractor who was sentenced to federal prison for leaking classified documents to the press. Review | Reality Winner’s arrest transcript becomes a scintillating Broadway show in ‘Is This a Room’ 2021-10-11T04:00:00Z

The irony was almost poignant: It looked as if the hard-nosed mastermind of international affairs had failed to anticipate the constellation of threats to his own book. In ‘The Room Where It Happened,’ John Bolton Dumps His Notes and Smites His Enemies 2020-06-17T04:00:00Z

But the most poignant character is a troll named Edward, who does Muriel’s bidding until he takes pity on the humans. A Punkster Hansel & Gretel: That Witch Does Not Kill Us 2013-01-25T21:25:50Z

Now — after the British superstar died of heart failure in his home on Christmas Day — Michael’s legacy seems to run in poignant parallel to those of other pop gods we lost in 2016. ‘Faith’ proved George Michael was a superstar. ‘Patience’ proved he was a great. 2016-12-26T05:00:00Z

George Hodgman will discuss his book “Bettyville,” a comedic yet poignant memoir that focuses on his relationship with his mother when he moves back to his small Missouri hometown to care for her. Spare Times for March 4-10 2016-03-03T05:00:00Z

This poignant work, inspired by Webre’s Cuban mother and aunt and their island lore, offered the most luxurious experience, with Cuban songs performed live by a marvelous onstage band.  Julie Kent heralds an elegant new era for the Washington Ballet 2016-10-02T04:00:00Z

There’s another poignant aspect of the author’s early life of crime. ‘Lonely Boy’ review: Sex Pistols guitarist Steve Jones riffs on an era of theft, drugs and punk 2017-01-18T05:00:00Z

And now several museum exhibitions are doing the same, with results that are surprising, poignant and even comic. At These Exhibitions, Death Is a Lively Subject 2023-04-26T04:00:00Z

The singer Brenda Lee, 68, who first toured with Mr. Jones when she was 10, recalled at Wednesday’s visitation how poignant one of his songs, “Who’s Gonna Fill Their Shoes” now seemed. For George Jones Fans, One Last Show 2013-05-02T21:41:11Z

The film raises legitimate fears of losing one’s job, home, family and, in a powerfully poignant sequence, even one’s sanity. ‘Close Encounters’ Was When the Movies Got New-Age Religion 2017-08-31T04:00:00Z

“Placing a listening device in Britney’s bedroom would be particularly inexcusable and disgraceful, and corroborates so much of her compelling, poignant testimony,” Mr. Rosengart said. The Surveillance Apparatus That Surrounded Britney Spears 2021-09-24T04:00:00Z

The start of a smoldering aria, these words may be the most poetic and poignant in Anthony Davis’s opera “X: The Life and Times of Malcolm X.” Review: After 36 Years, a Malcolm X Opera Sings to the Future 2022-05-15T04:00:00Z

Where the show is most poignant is in the ways it reminds worshipful stans that in her time Julia Child was never enough in some way for a lot of people, everywhere. The joy of HBO Max's Julia Child series, a deliciously affectionate celebration of an icon 2022-03-31T04:00:00Z

For him, saving the village’s most significant and perhaps most neglected historic building holds a poignant significance. Romania’s monument ‘ambulance’ races to save country’s past 2021-07-05T04:00:00Z

The delicately painted details, like the translucent tears streaming down several faces and the potent gestures of grief, convey a most poignant depiction of sorrow. 2010-02-10T19:52:00Z

In the end, the best we can do to honor her memory is reflect on her shining moments, like her poignant, soulful performance of "Me and Mr. Jones" in 2007. Media, stars react to death of Amy Winehouse 2011-07-25T15:59:00Z

At the heart of this frustrating yet poignant book is the dangerous reality that there exists no solid, consistent global policy regarding ransom payments. A Freed Hostage Audits the Murky Business of Captive Negotiations 2017-12-15T05:00:00Z

Even more, they reveal an almost counterintuitive feeling for solitude in company and for the poignant intensities of creative collusion. Review | The Whitney Biennial presents the best new artists in the country — and lots of fluff 2019-05-17T04:00:00Z

For the final 85 minutes, Flight is a poignant drama about an alcoholic pilot reluctantly coming to grips with an addiction that just might cost him his life. Clip joint: plane disasters 2013-01-31T12:58:00Z

It is one of the artist’s most poignant and beautiful paintings. Review | John Singer Sargent didn’t just paint the 1 percent. There was another, less-known side to his art. 2020-03-05T05:00:00Z

Their lyrics are sad, poignant and full of yearning. A band of contradictions 2012-11-22T07:44:23Z

And in one poignant moment, Grandma waved goodbye and walked away into the yellow mist beyond the proscenium. Barry Lubin, Grandma the Clown, in Final Big Apple Tour 2011-09-20T22:02:29Z

Such sentiments made it particularly poignant to see this young man, his angular, delicate bone structure so similar to his father’s, embracing Stella Garcia, whom he had just met for the first time. | Art and Film Luminaries Salute Dennis Hopper at Paris Photo Los Angeles 2014-04-28T20:05:29Z

The resulting geometric figures are poignant depictions of commercial food production at its very source. | A Photographer’s Artful Images of African Agriculture 2014-01-17T22:45:21Z

The Ébène played with no-holds-barred fervor, the first movement imbued with a tension and vigor that revealed myriad shades of sorrow and the poignant Adagio rendered with searing introspection. Music Review: Quatuor Ébène Plays Schumann and Errol Garner 2014-02-23T21:46:20Z

Particularly poignant is a vinyl record made by a young German in 1942 who dreamt of becoming a singer. Sick of Valentine's? Museum adds woes of war to litany of lost love 2019-02-14T05:00:00Z

There could hardly be a more poignant symbol for this film's unsentimental and yet fully engaged approach to the natural world: poisoning trees. Joe review – these woods are lovely, dark and deep 2014-07-24T04:00:00Z

It’s a glimpse into what this shattered family looked like when it was intact, and a poignant reminder that a short life is every bit as meaningful as a long one. A Political Scandal’s Trauma, Seen From the Inside 2017-12-18T05:00:00Z

But this twisty, tingly mystery grips you tight by introducing assorted possibilities for just who might be as Dean, in a fiercely poignant turn by Macdonald, struggles to exact justice for her son. The Week in Arts: A Mini-Festival of Music and a 9/11 Remembrance 2019-09-07T04:00:00Z

Indeed, Silvie’s poignant attraction to Molly sounds the deepest notes of desire in the book. Characters Who Crave a Return to the Past, Human Sacrifice and All 2019-01-11T05:00:00Z

But what’s especially poignant is to see this particular black man, at this particular moment in history, painted over and over in whitewash. What to See in New York Art Galleries This Week 2016-12-08T05:00:00Z

"But then you remember that even Mr Bean is a poignant figure at heart, so it's not such a stretch after all." Atkinson play wins critics' praise 2013-01-30T11:10:42Z

Iran’s foremost female director, Rakhshan Bani-Etemad, who hasn’t made a fiction feature in eight years, returns with this strong, poignant drama of interlocking stories, some of which revisit characters from her earlier works. Addio, Lido: Last Postcards from the Venice Film Festival 2014-09-07T04:00:00Z

It’s a poignant and, in its way, a respectful rendering of a human being’s mortality. Tina Brown on the Final Two Episodes of ‘The Crown’: Love and Duty 2016-11-23T05:00:00Z

But the real contest looms, one in which the conventional politician’s tools—a firm grasp of policy, a poignant anecdote from the campaign trail—will be of little use. How to Beat Trump, According to Experts on Middle-School Bullies 2019-10-14T04:00:00Z

Here is an especially poignant piece on paper, a green circle with a fringed circumference and a pink dot in the center. What Not to Miss at the Armory Show at the Piers 2016-03-03T05:00:00Z

In the film’s most poignant vignettes, Franklin is lifted by an aide and carried from the garden into the house. Hyde Park on Hudson: FDR and the Stammering King 2012-09-12T17:00:19Z

Standing alone in the morning light, Ramirez exuded both quiet resilience and resignation, a poignant moment of calm in the midst a chaotic and anguished nomination process. The Best New Yorker Photography of 2018 2018-12-17T05:00:00Z

“Haunting, poignant and magical – it blew me away,” he says. Russia's answer to James Bond: did he trigger Putin's rise to power? 2018-09-11T04:00:00Z

Brammer’s debut uses the form of an advice column to paint a funny, poignant picture of modern queer life, in 12 essays about everything from childhood trauma to years spent in the closet. 10 New Books We Recommend This Week 2021-07-08T04:00:00Z

The effect of reading these two converging narratives — the event and the recording of the event — is as fascinating as it is poignant. Sleeping giant Colum McCann awakens with new collection 2015-10-07T04:00:00Z

I love to quote from newspaper accounts of the time, because it’s funny and poignant and wrongheaded. 24 Tense Hours in Abraham Lincoln’s Life 2020-02-23T05:00:00Z

It is a moving, poignant tour de force, and the brutal camera does not look away. Luise Rainer, ’30s Star Who Won Back-to-Back Oscars, Dies at 104 2014-12-30T05:00:00Z

In addition to the extreme bloodshed and brilliant cinematography, the Korean-language series has been praised for its poignant mix of characters. From "Los Espookys" to "Paper Girls," here are 8 spooky streaming shows you may have missed 2022-10-21T04:00:00Z

At first, reflective passages full of poignant melodic turns and blues-tinged, plushly orchestrated harmonies alternate with vibrantly jazzy, fidgety episodes. Review: Wynton Marsalis’s Urban Symphony for the Philharmonic 2016-12-30T05:00:00Z

She closed with the poignant “Hello, God,” wondering if there is a prayer of fixing our messed-up world. Dolly Parton in Kent: A night of many songs, stories 2016-09-22T04:00:00Z

I like the idea that Liam and Elroy had time to develop their own sounds and approaches before they stepped into Crowded House; I found that very poignant. From Fleetwood Mac back to Crowded House, Neil Finn weighs in on the band's open-hearted new album 2021-06-04T04:00:00Z

Tony was at times a poignant figure, a made man at war with his own nature, struggling to not become the person we all knew him to be. The TV Watch: A Complicated Actor Who Made a Complicated Mob Boss Indelible 2013-06-20T23:08:03Z

But as she encounters obstacles to learning more about Moshe and his paintings, the scenes turn increasingly poignant. ‘Chasing Portraits’ Review: Seeking Art Lost During the Holocaust 2019-04-25T04:00:00Z

A poignant detail in “The Billion Dollar Spy” is what Mr. Tolkachev asked for besides money and banned books. Review: In ‘The Billion Dollar Spy,’ David E. Hoffman Recalls a Cold War Spy 2015-07-05T04:00:00Z

Time-play and what-ifs are part of Brown’s formidable bag of tricks, deployed to add emotional range and a poignant twist to his comic vignettes. Review | In ‘150 Glimpses of the Beatles,’ bits and pieces make up a poignant portrait 2020-10-14T04:00:00Z

But as directed by Eleanor Rhode, and acted by a vigorous cast of seven, it is also a shrewd and poignant study of how rote work defines those who perform it. Review: ‘Toast’ Blends Farce With Kitchen-Sink Realism 2016-05-02T04:00:00Z

It’s even more poignant today, she added, “when we are seeing such strong opposition to each other within our own country.” He Called His Song ‘American Anthem.’ It Actually Became One. 2021-01-21T05:00:00Z

It was a stunning and poignant moment, wisely buttressed with silence to let the emotional gravitas linger. Everyone loves Paul McCartney: The secrets of one Beatle’s eternal appeal 2018-07-01T04:00:00Z

I read the book when it came out in 1971 and thought it had all the qualities that would make for a funny, sharp-eyed, deeply poignant TV drama. Elizabeth Taylor, Jim Harrison and Other Letters to the Editor 2022-01-28T05:00:00Z

Mr. Johnson worked on six more episodes of the original “Twilight Zone,” many of them poignant takes on senescence. George Clayton Johnson, Science Fiction Writer Known for ‘Logan’s Run,’ Dies at 86 2015-12-27T05:00:00Z

The results are both outrageously funny and unexpectedly poignant: deeply personal work that attacks the stigma of mental illness by its sheer openness, specificity and sense of humor. Maria Bamford's favorite self-help books 2016-10-06T04:00:00Z

There is a poignant moment when Ware prepares to leave his Iraqi bureau staff for a Christmas break, and there are filmed good wishes from all of them, one Omar included. ‘I witnessed the birth of Isis’: how one film-maker captured the horror of Iraq 2016-02-27T05:00:00Z

When you gaze upon a wall of hundreds of different girls giving endless blow jobs, it seems like an especially poignant representation of modern overstimulation and never-ending consumption. GIF porn: The new gonzo? 2012-12-09T00:50:00Z

The yarn is a real corker, a polymorphously perverse tale of baffling motives and strangely poignant psychology. Billy Crudup in 'Harry Clarke': A deviously brilliant performance is reborn as an audiobook 2018-01-16T05:00:00Z

“Here in Los Angeles, where celebrity culture goes hand-in-hand with the film industry,” she said, “Carroll’s thoughts on fame are especially poignant.” ArtsBeat: Fame-Hating Lewis Carroll Letter Lands in Los Angeles 2014-04-18T02:00:44Z

The most poignant and inspiring aspect of the doc is watching you develop your self-worth. Rita Moreno reflects on tenacity, her career and Latinx representation: "Where is our 'Moonlight'?" 2021-01-29T05:00:00Z

Tarek’s homesickness may be poignant, but it’s the soldiers’ eagerness to cross the border — and our knowledge of what awaits them — that bites. Movie Review: ‘When I Saw You’ Delivers a Child’s View of War 2014-01-14T22:59:17Z

It is a poignant and bittersweet record, a mix of classic songwriting with electronic and R&B influences. Glastonbury festival: Jessie Ware's wildest moments 2013-06-29T23:05:17Z

Accordingly, the music grew dark and agitated midway through, ending in a poignant earthbound plunge. Music Review: Look & Listen?s Informal Feel at Chelsea Art Museum 2010-05-09T22:21:00Z

Kabuki’s traditions include men playing women’s roles, a convention followed here, although Esposito casts a woman in one particularly poignant role. Stephen Sondheim, experimenter. Listen to 'Pacific Overtures' and 'Forum' 2017-12-07T05:00:00Z

In one of the film’s most poignant scenes — one that was plucked from the book but has not made it into most previous adaptations — Jo confides her own anger to Marmee. This Is ‘Little Women’ for a New Era 2020-01-02T05:00:00Z

The beloved Twitter persona Duchess Goldblatt is celebrated for her pithy wit and occasionally scathing observations, but this memoir from her anonymous creator is surprisingly poignant. 10 New Books We Recommend This Week 2020-07-23T04:00:00Z

Coronavirus restrictions in place at the time limited the service to 30 mourners and forced the monarch to sit alone — a poignant reminder of how she would spend her remaining years. Queen Elizabeth II privately marks her 96th birthday 2022-04-20T04:00:00Z

It felt like the beginning of a journey: Ms. Lovette instills every part with a poignant inner drama. At New York City Ballet, Swans Use Grit to Find Glory 2020-02-25T05:00:00Z

As that final, poignant tableau attests, “Some Sextets” is driven by structure, but it’s not dry. Yvonne Rainer Revives Her ‘Mattress Monster’ Dance 2019-11-12T05:00:00Z

As the skeleton of the ship emerges from the sand, it is a metaphor for the transience of human life, particularly poignant with war looming. "The Dig" on Netflix: a refreshingly accurate portrayal — according to an archaeologist 2021-02-08T05:00:00Z

The scraps and flecks of newsprint work like Impressionist brush strokes: up close it’s hard to see the image, but a few steps back you see poignant portraiture. Two Projects Helping Female Artists in Africa Find Their Voices 2018-04-26T04:00:00Z

The poignant track earned a nomination for best country solo performance. 12 Grammy facts: BTS and Dr. Luke in, The Weeknd out 2020-11-24T05:00:00Z

It’s an unnerving puzzle to see pieced together, both frightening and poignant, and Kusama has no interest in pulling us back from the edge she’s pushed us to. My streaming gem: why you should watch The Invitation 2020-06-05T04:00:00Z

There are poignant discussions about Reed's depression and insecurity. Apple TV+'s new Velvet Underground film is an irresistible portrait of extraordinary provocateurs 2021-10-14T04:00:00Z

This standing around is simultaneously boring and one of the happiest, most poignant things I’ve ever done with monotony. Visiting the African-American Museum: Waiting, Reading, Thinking, Connecting, Feeling 2016-12-25T05:00:00Z

And it’s made poignant by the small-business crisis in Chelsea, where many galleries are still sorting out damage from Hurricane Sandy. Art in Review: CHRISTINE HILL: ‘Small Business’ 2012-11-22T21:24:47Z

It was everything nobody wanted, but it was still quite a thing: adequately just, narratively symmetrical and sufficiently poignant. Review | The ‘Game of Thrones’ finale, while lacking, goes out on an important note: Stories matter 2019-05-20T04:00:00Z

Amid all that excess, there are still poignant, shocking moments that offer insight into the vampire’s existential struggles. Vampire novel ‘The Quick’ has rich Victorian details but too many characters, plots

There was also something poignant about Baylock’s rapid aging and eventual “living death.” Beyond “The Man Who Fell to Earth”: Coming of age with David Bowie’s films 2016-01-12T05:00:00Z

Set at the time of the second Iraq war, Linklater’s film is poignant and blackly funny, but not something that felt particularly specific to today. Richard Linklater on Last Flag Flying: 'We're not meant to kill. We're not cut out for it' 2018-01-22T05:00:00Z

In 2000's Blue Herrings, Nettles's favourite script, a series of mysterious deaths in a care home leads to an unusually poignant exploration of the issues around euthanasia. Your next box set: Midsomer Murders: John Nettles My Top Ten 2011-02-25T08:00:09Z

The movie is poignant and honest in showing how Jane and Stephen’s marriage leaves both of them exhausted and unfulfilled. In ‘The Theory of Everything,’ Stephen Hawking’s Home Life 2014-11-06T05:00:00Z

It is a remarkable achievement: generous, honest, almost unbearably poignant. Sheryl Sandberg Finds Comfort for Herself and Offers It to Others 2017-04-23T04:00:00Z

But no failure was perhaps so poignant as “Merrily We Roll Along.” Hal Prince, Giant of Broadway and Reaper of Tonys, Dies at 91 2019-07-31T04:00:00Z

Ah Tao is portrayed with a poignant delicacy by Yip, a Canto-pop singer and pert supporting actress in the 1980s, who has matured to pay superb justice to a gracious lady of quiet heroism. Postcards from Venice: 10 for the Show 2011-09-09T02:50:00Z

This poignant 90-minute show, which opened on Monday night at the New York Theater Workshop, is a response to one ineradicable and devastating fact of life. Review: Waltzing With Love and Death in ‘Hundred Days’ 2017-12-04T05:00:00Z

We convinced the students that the more straightforwardly and earnestly they performed this scene, the most charming and poignant it would be. When a Critic Put on the ‘Best of All American Operas’ 2020-01-22T05:00:00Z

In 1985, he made a poignant portrait of a man standing in a sheer shroud, illuminated against a black background. Photography’s Road From Edgy to Excess 2022-12-12T05:00:00Z

His poignant conclusion: "I sort of expected but couldn't really fully imagine the sadness of lives and the comfort of things". Let each of us write our own history in 100 objects 2010-12-26T19:00:00Z

This novel helped me through some very difficult times with its poignant, reflective and painfully honest tone. The Perks of being a Wallflower by Stephen Chbosky - review 2013-07-22T14:00:00Z

From minimal ingredients, “News From Home” emerges as one of the most poignant and personal of all experimental nonfiction films. Stream These Three Great Documentaries 2022-08-26T04:00:00Z

Without giving too much away, the story has taken on a terrible, poignant resonance in these last weeks. Jennifer Weiner Used to Read Her Father’s Medical Textbooks for Fun 2020-05-07T04:00:00Z

For each set of tear-filled vows, there is a poignant moment about the fight for marriage equality. Married & Counting: One Gay Couple, Seven Weddings, Countless Happy Tears 2012-08-08T16:30:58Z

Think about the most poignant rite of passage ever in your life and every beautiful, sad emotion that came with it. Dolly Parton, American icon: Why everything's coming up Dolly now 2019-10-28T04:00:00Z

The entire episode is emotional, informative and particularly poignant as corporations attempt to commercialize the holiday. The connection between Black cooking and Juneteenth 2022-06-18T04:00:00Z

There was a poignant moment when Jack looks up and asks him if he wants to know where his money is and Walt just pulls the trigger. Breaking Bad’s Gustavo Fring Talks About the Series Finale 2013-09-30T22:37:54Z

The exhibition is just one of many poignant reflections on the war’s impact on Ukrainians that is on display across Liverpool this week. At Eurovision, Ukrainians Find Community Far From Home 2023-05-13T04:00:00Z

For Austen, his lack of life marks the most poignant death of all: the death of possibility. In Jane Austen’s Pages, Death Has No Dominion 2017-07-13T04:00:00Z

Mr. Mead appears for only a few minutes in a scene with the artist and actor Bill Rice, but critics said it struck a poignant note. Taylor Mead, Bohemian and Actor, Dies at 88 2013-05-10T02:48:13Z

Yet she found herself grappling with this very thing when she and her late husband Aaron Purmort wrote his poignant and hilarious obituary that went viral in 2014. WATCH: Author Nora McInerny shares the joy of grief 2017-05-24T04:00:00Z

Robert Smith cites this album in his top three of all time and this exquisitely poignant and beautiful song features on the Lost in Translation soundtrack. Shoegaze: a beginner's guide 2013-01-23T15:42:23Z

His words feel eerily poignant today: “debt shrine,” “per capita,” “Hooverville,” “perishable,” “black teeth,” “immortality.” ‘Jean-Michel Basquiat’ at the Brant Shows His Bifurcated Life 2019-03-05T05:00:00Z

The original is poignant and effective, but maybe a tad too brisk and drowning in digital effects that obscure the song’s heart-rending core. The Playlist: Ariana Grande Shows Her Heart, and 8 More New Songs 2018-08-17T04:00:00Z

Works such as this, and many others in this small but poignant exhibition, put into relief how limited the ambition of the Smithsonian’s “Conversations” exhibition is. ‘200 Years of African American Art’ at Philadelphia Museum of Art 2015-01-13T05:00:00Z

One of the more poignant moments in Late Night comes when Katherine talks about not having a child for the sake of her career. Mindy Kaling: ‘I was so embarrassed about being a diversity hire’ 2019-05-31T04:00:00Z

Armstrong even taped himself drunkenly propositioning his wife for sex and the strange, funny and poignant conversation that followed, in which Lucille accuses him of thinking only about sex. Ways to Spend a Virtual Day With Louis Armstrong 2014-06-05T04:00:00Z

The final chapter, on Michael Jackson, is both exciting and poignant: That moonwalk has a richly complicated tale. Review: In Megan Pugh’s ‘America Dancing,’ a Focus on Where the Moves Came From 2015-12-30T05:00:00Z

She, for her part, is arrestingly fine, her dancing confident in its scope and poignant in its resonance. The Royal Ballet: Triple Bill: Viscera, Infra, Fool's Paradise – review 2012-11-11T00:05:56Z

Mr. Cusack gave the first “Hot Tub” a poignant emotional core that is missing in the sequel. Review: ‘Hot Tub Time Machine 2’ Heads Back to the Bubbles 2015-02-19T05:00:00Z

"It sounds poignant but I actually don't mind," she says. A life in writing: Nicola Barker 2010-04-30T23:13:00Z

At first, this seemingly simple story concentrates on Mija’s daily habits, her visits to her doctor, her relations with her grandson, her poignant vanity. Film: At Cannes, Films Echoing World Events 2010-05-20T22:16:00Z

He's describing the creepy mix of banal and poignant YouTube clips that can be played almost like an instrument on the Video page, each clip responding to where your cursor is. Outfit try stardom on for size 2012-06-15T23:03:00Z

Historian Maya Jasanoff, who is chairing the judging panel, said the shortlist was immersive, global and “engages with matters of life and death, which feels quite poignant and pertinent in this catastrophic year.” Americans Lockwood, Powers, Shipstead up for Booker Prize 2021-09-14T04:00:00Z

Twee, snarky, meta, manic, maddening and yet eventually poignant, the play is a moving target, its tone as hard to pin down as its facts. ‘Scene Partners’ Review: Is She Brilliant? Demented? Both? 2023-11-15T05:00:00Z

Lady Jane Grey's short, poignant life deserves better than this simpering romance. Grey areas 2010-08-26T08:28:00Z

That character is on ebullient but also brimmingly poignant display in the “Much Ado” concurrently running in repertory at the Globe. London Theater: Divergent Takes on 'Much Ado' 2011-06-07T13:00:06Z

Mr. Kissin played them with deep empathy, allowing the notes of the first to cling to one another in a show of quiet, poignant reluctance. Review: Evgeny Kissin the Curator Illustrates His Breadth 2015-11-04T05:00:00Z

It was deeply satisfying, but also poignant: a homage to the chef’s mother, who died when he was a child. New New Nordic Cuisine Takes Hold in Oslo 2018-05-29T04:00:00Z

“Tender” provides a poignant look at one such conflict of desires in this progressive era. ‘Tender’ review: a love story of misaligned affections 2016-02-23T05:00:00Z

Beyond making for a poignant metaphor, the ribbonlike edifice is an impressive feat of engineering, realized in collaboration with the design firm Arup. Could Hiroshi Nakamura's Ribbon Chapel Be The Most Epic Wedding Location Yet? 2015-05-12T04:00:00Z

The ending is poignant, focusing on possibility rather than certainty. Karina Yan Glaser’s First Non-Vanderbeekers Novel 2022-03-25T04:00:00Z

That’s too bad because Carey eventually arrives at a profound and poignant story, though it has little to do with the zany car race. Review | Peter Carey’s new novel is a strange ride through Australia’s racist past — and present 2018-02-27T05:00:00Z

Antony Hegarty, who appeared in the stage production of Mr. Reed’s album “Berlin,” performed a slow, poignant, tremulous “Candy Says.” Critic’s Notebook: Lou Reed’s Complex Spirit Is Invoked at a Reunion of His Inner Circle 2013-12-17T22:39:52Z

It makes her unbiased approach all the more striking and poignant. Review | ‘My Dark Vanessa’ is being described as ‘Lolita’ for the #MeToo era. It’s more than that. 2020-03-09T04:00:00Z

Kerr’s 14th novel in this series proves to be Gunther’s origin story, which makes it feel imperative as well as poignant. Philip Kerr’s Last Novel and a New Series From Alexander McCall Smith 2019-04-05T04:00:00Z

Urging his visitor to move aside, Bill takes his place and, with the feathered grace the composition calls for, conveys its poignant poetry as the songsmith intended. In "The Last of Us," Nick Offerman and Murray Bartlett battle loneliness at the end of the world 2023-01-30T05:00:00Z

But with sharp casting, he pulls off a movie with a dash of wit, a few genuinely poignant moments and a generous helping of grace notes to make the clichés go down easily. '10 Years': Sharp cast makes this school reunion worth attending 2012-09-27T20:24:03Z

The result of all these elements is an uneasily poignant reflection on storytelling, on the possibilities and limitations of our understanding — especially across space and language in the fragmentary era of social media. A Festival Adds to Opera’s Soaring Body Count 2019-09-23T04:00:00Z

“Hers is one of the most poignant stories,” Ms. Insdorf said. Elzbieta Czyzewska, Polish Actress, Dies at 72 2010-06-18T03:59:00Z

His recollection of wartime rationing in England is poignant and tough for him to recount, and a scene describing the plot of “Animal Farm” is revealing no matter how well you know that novel. Review: A Dynamic Actor Redeems ‘Orwell in America’ 2016-10-16T04:00:00Z

“This is Scorsese’s least sentimental picture of mob life,” Scott added, “and for that reason his most poignant.” What's on TV Wednesday: ‘The Irishman’ and ‘Julie & Julia’ 2019-11-27T05:00:00Z

The latter displays Alvarez's poetic hyperawareness of lyricism and word choice, and her ability to create moments that are simultaneously poignant and hilarious showcase this mastery. Recommended reading for April: New must-read books to liven up long shutdown days 2020-04-07T04:00:00Z

First broadcast in 1989, it's regarded by many as a classic -- partly because of the poignant final scene, in which the jokes stop and the main characters charge into battle and to their likely deaths. A war over 'Blackadder' and Britain's legacy of WWI 2014-01-08T00:03:32Z

But in their measured restraint, songs like “Tenting on the Old Camp Ground,” with an antiwar text by Walter Kittredge, achieve their own poignant dignity, cut from a similar cloth as Lincoln’s speeches. Review: Civil War Songs of Memory and Loss, at Cooper Union 2015-04-24T04:00:00Z

In context, that poignant last sentence from “Farewell, My Lovely” is as moving as anything by F. Scott Fitzgerald. Review | Locked-room masterpieces from Japan are the perfect escape for summer 2020-08-04T04:00:00Z

The last of the three is closing track “Falling Free,” an indelibly poignant track that adds flesh to a fairly robotic album. Madonna's MDNA: The Queen of Pop Wants You to Dance, Not Think 2012-03-26T20:09:57Z

Beautiful movie, and one that may be especially poignant for the Academy's many older voters. Oscar countdown: 'Amour' 2013-02-12T23:27:05Z

It's fascinating – it's very poignant, but there's nothing warm about it, sonically – it's really electronic, and after a while, his voice and the synth are virtually the same. Lou Reed on Yeezus: 'It brings tears to my eyes' 2013-07-03T15:48:19Z

With over 700 comments pouring in on the clip in recent days, it’s evident that the poignant moment touched the hearts of many. Bride's wedding dance with terminally ill dad in wheelchair goes viral 2019-01-05T05:00:00Z

With that, Saul Goodman's engrossing, poignant and beautifully tragic story is finished. S'all done: "Better Call Saul" closes with a journey through time and regret 2022-08-16T04:00:00Z

The artist JMW Turner provided a poignant footnote to the story, in a painting now in the National Gallery once voted the nation's favourite. Trafalgar account is rare voice from below deck 2010-10-19T09:46:00Z

“The people that were supposed to protect and serve us did the opposite,” said Nobi, who released a poignant album of his own this summer. Seattle musicians tell the stories of our historic year through song 2020-09-11T04:00:00Z

Instead, he produces a much richer work that — without giving away too much — takes a long pause from the video mystery to delve into a poignant, multigenerational saga of religious obsession and its shattering consequences. Mountain Goats founder John Darnielle returns with a second powerful novel 2017-01-31T05:00:00Z

A poignant and pragmatic conclusion, but a domestic one, a private remedy to a public problem. The Unsaid: The Silence of Virginia Woolf 2014-11-10T05:00:00Z

Gregory Hughes's debut, Unhooking the Moon, was an exuberant, anarchic and poignant road-trip starring an irresistible heroine nicknamed the Rat. Summertime of the Dead by Gregory Hughes – review 2012-09-28T21:55:03Z

It will also bring the Rocky story full circle in the most poignant way imaginable. Sylvester Stallone: the wacky people's champ who battled his own ego 2016-02-24T05:00:00Z

Still, the performance, engaging and poignant, ended up feeling like more than the sum of its parts. Stephen Costello and Tamara Wilson Show Opposing Approaches 2014-12-30T05:00:00Z

But there’s no escaping the fact that rooted in our culture’s literary DNA is a proclivity for treating the disrupted family unit as a conveniently poignant narrative device. Films Like ‘The Boss Baby’ Can Be Painful for Adoptees and Foster Kids 2017-04-05T04:00:00Z

There is something profound and poignant in these struggles, which illustrate one of the fundamental tasks of babyhood: the mastery of the physical environment. Movie Review |'Babies': Thomas Balm?s?s Chronicle of Four Babies 2010-05-06T22:16:00Z

There was a poignant dialogue between a solo oboist on one side of the stage and a bassoonist on the other who faced each other and created billowing ribbons of sound across space. Music Review: Axiom, a Juilliard Ensemble, at Alice Tully Hall 2012-12-13T21:26:23Z

This alliance came to a poignant peak in “A Mighty Wind,” the 2003 comedy that cast them as a folk-music duo with a fraught romantic history. ‘Schitt’s Creek,’ With Eugene Levy and Catherine O’Hara 2015-02-03T05:00:00Z

Summarizing a century of pop music, the song sounds fresh and poignant in this century as well. The All-TIME 100 Songs 2011-10-24T09:00:29Z

“Of course, it’s so important for everyone but particularly poignant for younger people,” Wolfe said of the climate crisis in a recent interview. A Composer Shifts Her Focus to Climate, With Help From Children 2023-05-31T04:00:00Z

It is an eloquent and poignant monument to impermanence, both in the natural world and because the "congratulations" subtitle hints at celebratory bouquets of importance in our own lives. Western Bridge exhibit looks at the fleetingness of time 2012-03-15T21:02:07Z

Still, as ably directed by Holly Twyford and featuring sturdy performances, especially in the lead roles, “Mary-Kate” offers some poignant glimpses of characters and relationships, as well as frequent doses of wry incongruity. The Olsen twins are here to save the day! 2015-06-08T04:00:00Z

Early reviews have described "Scratch My Back" as a poignant, contemplative album that is stripped down to the essentials, featuring just Gabriel's voice accompanied by chamber instruments as well as brass and keyboards. 2010-02-15T17:33:00Z

Each wants something different as he or she travels to the powwow, from the high-minded to the poignant to the confused to the criminal. Yes, Tommy Orange’s New Novel Really Is That Good 2018-06-19T04:00:00Z

Since Borodin's poignant and stately notturno was still playing in his mind, and since he did not wish to repeat the farewell ceremony, he stood by the car while the chauffeur fiddled with the engine. Parisians: An Adventure History of Paris by Graham Robb 2010-04-02T23:06:00Z

But after my soliloquy, I’m predicting that H.E.R. will go back-to-back in this category for “Fight for You,” a soulful song with poignant lyrics from the “Judas and the Black Messiah” soundtrack. Grammy predictions: AP writers debate who’ll triumph Sunday 2022-03-30T04:00:00Z

It was almost poignant when Mr. Wade begged a colored-light machine to keep working, acknowledging that it was the only thing holding the show together. ‘Stardust’ Makes Debut at Queer New York Arts Festival 2014-09-25T04:00:00Z

Still, the golden moments in this series are poignant and personal, not brash. "MasterChef" off to a tasty start 2010-07-27T01:31:00Z

It's only during the poignant Annie's Box – detailing the early death of one of Darwin's daughters – that her voice is pushed to the forefront. Tomorrow, in a Year 2010-08-02T21:15:00Z

For McCartney, the story of du Pré's life, which was cut short by multiple sclerosis, makes for the documentary's "most poignant, sad moments." Mary McCartney's connection to Abbey Road Studios is a family affair 2022-12-16T05:00:00Z

Best known for their poignant ballad "If I Die Young," they got a nomination for best new artist. Kanye gets 7 Grammy noms; Adele, Mars, Foos get 6 2011-12-01T11:49:09Z

As before, the action involves an older man and a younger woman, their will they/won't they relationship and a veritable tsunami of poignant guitar ballads. Toronto 2013: Reporter's diary 2013-09-12T13:42:39Z

In “Ease and Plenty,” an illiterate black miner provides a poignant moment for Edgar when he asks for help writing a note. Novels of White Status Anxiety 2016-08-04T04:00:00Z

Instead, he wants you to consider the process by which we associate certain images with poignant memories. | In a Gagosian Gallerist’s Personal Work, Cultures Collide 2014-01-15T18:17:52Z

It was poignant, Stewart told the crowd, “to be here tonight with you guys—my heroes—on the eve of the last American election.” My Most Memorable Cultural Moments of 2016 2016-12-07T05:00:00Z

It’s a poignant, painful record of an ordinary man’s decency tested by fire. Review | The story of Europe’s infamous witch trials gets the Monty Python treatment 2021-05-24T04:00:00Z

As musician, Petri can arch a phrase for poignant effect or bend a pitch downward to evoke a touch of pathos. Suzanne Petri conjures Marlene Dietrich at Millennium Park 2010-12-21T15:48:00Z

This book presents the long, troubled relationship between the United States and Iran in a breezy and supple narrative, replete with poignant anecdotes, to posit convincingly that “antagonism between Iran and America is wholly unnecessary.” 10 New Books We Recommend This Week 2021-01-28T05:00:00Z

No, I want to take a moment to point out Britain's most poignant and beautiful work of modern art in a public place. Why Rodin's sculpture is Britain's best work of public art | Jonathan Jones 2010-03-23T10:35:00Z

Lena’s gloominess, her resigned unhappiness with her own apparently blessed life — husband, children, job, America — make the sexual and romantic awakening that unfolds that much more poignant. Books of The Times: ‘The Scent of Pine,’ by Lara Vapnyar 2013-12-31T21:47:12Z

It’s the first harvest season since Aunt Lucy died, a poignant time of year for the family. Elegy With a Side of Applesauce 0002-11-29T05:00:00Z

Cohabitation is hell, but Mr. Shawn makes the devastating, poignant point that it wouldn’t hurt nearly as much if we didn’t need and want it. | 'Marie and Bruce': There?s Room for Everyone Aboard a Marital Misery Tour 2011-04-06T03:00:05Z

“Ending with a poignant plea for hope, Dyson’s new book points the way to social redemption.” Dyson’s ‘Long Time Coming’ addresses history of racism in US 2020-08-25T04:00:00Z

It was funny, poignant and self-deprecating and the critics lapped it up. Sexual harassment claims could have sunk Casey Affleck. Instead, he soared 2017-01-06T05:00:00Z

The poor noseless Kovalyov bemoaning his fate at his lonely apartment — moping around, as you put it — is for me one of the most poignant and crucial moments. ?The Nose,? and the Eye and the Ear, at Metropolitan Opera 2010-03-11T19:52:00Z

New books reveal poignant, 19th-century pleas to Santa Claus as well as the bizarre fate of some heart-rending mail addressed to his workshop. ‘Mama Says That Santa Claus Does Not Come to Poor People’ 2015-11-26T05:00:00Z

And he winds up making Mr. Evans sound like a latter-day Norma Desmond, living amid worn furniture, overgrown trees and poignant memorabilia. Books of The Times: Near the Top at Paramount, Handling Players and Egos 2011-05-11T22:55:27Z

“Prayer for the French Republic” will be Harmon’s second play on Broadway; his poignant singleness comedy, “Significant Other,” had a run in 2017 at the Booth Theater. ‘Prayer for the French Republic’ Transferring to Broadway 2023-06-01T04:00:00Z

And the pointed, poignant ending will absolutely rip you to shreds. Offbeat Streaming: ‘Knock Knock,’ ‘John Lewis’ and ‘Sleight’ 2020-11-23T05:00:00Z

Unfortunately, it has not lost its poignant relevance. Art Review: ?Fluxus and the Essential Questions of Life? - Review 2011-09-23T23:19:41Z

If you want something poignant but happy, watch this. How Much Watching Time Do You Have This Weekend? 2022-06-23T04:00:00Z

A gripping, poignant and in some respects revolutionary contribution to European history by a distinguished British scholar who is descended from several of the protagonists he describes. Shelf life 2015-12-03T05:00:00Z

The concert opened with the 12 choristers and 20 orchestra players giving a soft-spoken account of the poignant “Lacrimosa” from Mozart’s Requiem. Mixing Healing and Strife, the Met Opera Sings Again 2021-05-17T04:00:00Z

Restless in Style and Subject Just after the American painter George Bellows died of a ruptured appendix at the age of 42, in 1925, the playwright Sherwood Anderson offered a poignant assessment. Art Review: ‘George Bellows,’ at the Metropolitan Museum of Art 2012-11-15T23:23:38Z

Each of the 34 snapshots is faded, ghostly and poignant in its own way. Photos from the Kurt Cobain crime scene that could be high art 2014-05-26T04:00:00Z

Humorous yet poignant, this book brings together tragedy and comedy beautifully. A Greyhound of a Girl by Roddy Doyle - Review 2012-06-13T08:00:00Z

With a soulful, even poignant ending that belies its comic exterior. Motherlode Blog: The New Reader’s Back-to-School Booklist 2013-08-21T13:56:02Z

In Tchaikovsky’s “Eugene Onegin,” that surrender is especially poignant when Lensky sings on the eve of a duel that he rightly suspects will leave him dead. Exit Arias: What Opera Can Teach Us About Dying 2020-07-09T04:00:00Z

This weekend’s theatrical premiere marks only the sighting of a glamorous zombie — a movie that is a poignant subspecies of bad: just plain sad. How Jennifer Lawrence and Bradley Cooper Went Both Bad and Sad in Serena 2015-03-27T04:00:00Z

The spot on final scenes hauntingly conclude a poignant what-if story about a return from the other side. Five Horror Movies to Stream Now 2021-06-25T04:00:00Z

But funny it is, and poignant as well as thought-provoking — a delightful departure from the ordinary. ‘Snapper’: looking for birds, love and the meaning of life 2013-04-24T22:05:11Z

Speaking of that final duet, “Pur ti miro,” it is one of the most beautiful and poignant pieces ever written, but some scholars have questioned whether it was actually written by Monteverdi. A Monteverdi Master Returns to His Roots With a Rare Trilogy 2017-10-12T04:00:00Z

I found the closing scenes, with Cavanaugh, among the most poignant – or maybe just the most upsetting – so far. 'Orange Is the New Black' Recap: All They're Missing Is a Black Market Etsy 2014-06-27T04:00:00Z

“What they eventually discovered is often delightful and at times so poignant that many of the most crucial details are best left for viewers to discover for themselves,” Manohla Dargis wrote in her Times review. What’s on TV Monday: ‘His Dark Materials’ and a Football Finale 2019-12-23T05:00:00Z

Buckley called “The Fire Next Time” a “poignant essay threatening the whites” — a call for “the end of Christian Civilization” that amounted to “morose nihilism.” The Glow From ‘The Fire Next Time’ 2017-12-25T05:00:00Z

The result was “Carnival Strippers,” a raunchy, poignant study of sex and class, audiences and performers that is among the great photo essays of the late 20th century. ‘Susan Meiselas: Meditations’ Review: Turning Subjects Into Collaborators 2018-08-06T04:00:00Z

In the realm of poignant possibility and artful implication, and not a small amount of beauty. New Music: Albums From Aloe Blacc, Sara Evans and Ambrose Akinmusire 2014-03-10T20:57:47Z

Eventually, they returned to South Korea, their later years a complicated and poignant mixture of personal recovery, professional decline and lingering political questions about their sojourn in the North. 'A Kim Jong-Il Production' times it right, post-Sony hacking 2015-02-18T05:00:00Z

Stanley Kubrick’s 1964 film “Dr. Strangelove, Or How I l Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb,” for example, continues to offer poignant commentary on toxic military masculinity. Why Michael Moore's "Bowling for Columbine" matters now more than ever 2019-10-19T04:00:00Z

Joyce pointed out how the child's efforts at not crying were more poignant than if she had actually been crying. Joyce Robertson obituary 2013-05-19T11:56:05Z

It's based on a collection of stories from the best-selling book by Ilene Beckerman and uses clothing and accessories and the memories they trigger to tell funny, poignant stories. Duff joins 'Love, Loss, and What I Wore' off-B'way 2010-06-23T00:10:00Z

In one of the novel’s most poignant episodes, she starts sneaking into a neighbor’s yard at night and peering in the window for moments of respite. Review | Kristen Arnett’s ‘With Teeth’ gives voice to a parent’s darkest thoughts 2021-06-08T04:00:00Z

Women’s equality is a mirage in so many parts of the world, and this clever narrative brings the ongoing struggle to achieve it into sharp and poignant relief. Winged Victories: 2 Picture Books Take Flight 2022-02-18T05:00:00Z

To some extent, we all shape-shift as we move through the poignant and painful gristle of childhood to adolescence. Trans-ported: the power of walking in someone else’s shoes 2017-03-04T05:00:00Z

The poignant “mmm,” in particular, treats death and dying with deep and attentive sensitivity. Ailey, Balanchine and a Lesson in Mourning 2020-05-12T04:00:00Z

The movie’s hands-off approach does often amount to something poignant. Review: In ‘Saving Brinton,’ an Inveterate Accumulator Finds Treasure 2018-05-17T04:00:00Z

The subject is poignant because the artist died a pauper. Rembrandt drawing found in Scottish attic 2012-06-21T17:24:02Z

Yet what felt almost mechanical became more poignant when one dancer, Na Ji-hun, was left alone, standing his ground. Review: A South Korean Troupe’s Physical Risks and Daunting Tasks 2023-03-27T04:00:00Z

When I read the finale script, I thought it was a beautiful, poignant way to say goodbye to these characters. Josh Radnor: "People Who Stuck With the Series" Got "HIMYM" finale 2015-02-18T05:00:00Z

It's almost unbearably poignant and is reprised over the final credits. Blue Valentine ? review 2011-01-16T00:05:31Z

Placing a listening device in Britney's bedroom would be particularly horrifying, and corroborates so much of her compelling, poignant testimony. From spying to denying Britney sneakers, what two new films reveal about Spears' conservatorship 2021-09-29T04:00:00Z

While I was filming, I tried to focus more on that poignant side of the psychological aspect of why people were pitted against each other, when they were very close to each other as friends. Emmys 2022: Lee Jung-jae Would Stay in the ‘Squid Game’ Contest 2022-07-12T04:00:00Z

The Hemingway anecdote is memorable because the story is so poignant in such a small space. Readers recommend songs with 10 words or fewer: The results 2010-06-03T20:30:00Z

Its nickname, the Freedom Railway, is now terribly poignant. African Railway and The Edible Guardian 2010-04-29T07:00:00Z

It’s an extraordinarily beautiful and poignant movie about a real trained monkey who wears a waitress uniform and the mask of a girl and a long black wig. Review: Pierre Huyghe Mixes Stones and Water for Roof Garden at the Met 2015-05-12T04:00:00Z

But for me, Dr. Smith puts a personal, human face on the matter, making issues of gratitude and respect even more poignant. Bach in My Heart, and My Heart in His Hands 2020-04-09T04:00:00Z

The rock numbers’ lyrics were poignant and pointed: “The wars have melted into one/A war was on when I was born.” Megan Terry, Feminist Playwright and Rock Musical Innovator, Dies at 90 2023-04-24T04:00:00Z

And since 2014, the secular oratorio “Le Vin Herbé,” Martin’s pared down but poignant take on the Tristan legend, has been mounted by opera houses in Boston, Chicago and Long Beach, Calif. Interest Grows in a Master of Choral Mystery and Power 2018-05-25T04:00:00Z

This poignant 1988 piece for baritone and orchestra sets passages from a poem by Walt Whitman about his experience nursing wounded soldiers during the Civil War in makeshift hospitals on the outskirts of Washington, D.C. Review: A Baritone Ends His Residency With a Poetic Homage 2019-03-22T04:00:00Z

There was a vulnerable performance of “The Art Teacher,” about a young person’s crush on a handsome instructor, and a poignant account of “Beauty Mark,” dedicated to his mother. Critic?s Notebook: City Opera Begins Season With Rufus Wainwright 2011-11-18T21:43:07Z

Ms. Denoke brought a dark, earthy voice and poignant humanity to her portrayal of Montezuma. Review: At Salzburg Festival, a Story of Sex and Conquest 2015-07-30T04:00:00Z

Osipova, with poignant subtlety, allows us to see a residual flicker of the village girl in the baleful spectre, and her dancing is a wonder. Giselle; Alice's Adventures in Wonderland – review 2013-03-31T00:05:25Z

It was a poignant time for Silberman, who was struggling with the disintegration of the relationship with his girlfriend. A 'Familiars' story: Antlers' Peter Silberman finds spiritual center 2014-07-10T04:00:00Z

“It was a letter so poignant, it made my wife cry,” he said. It was a rough year. But this letter carrier rallied and made Christmas stockings for all 250 dogs on his route. 2020-12-23T05:00:00Z

It is a poignant way to examine the genetics of schizophrenia: his own family’s history of mental illness leads him to studies of other families “achingly similar” to his own. Mix and match 2016-05-26T04:00:00Z

The panels are poignant, playful and sparking with humor. Oaxacalifornia dreaming: L.A. library mural project looks at a visual language that transcends borders 2017-09-20T04:00:00Z

The overall mood of the Christian-themed texts, with colorful saxophone accompaniment, was decidedly more earthbound than in Mr. Bryars’ poignant lament. Review: Hints of Eternity at Trinity Wall Street 2016-06-17T04:00:00Z

The April release is sure to be a poignant occasion for fans of the gas-guzzling action series, containing as it will the last screen appearance of the late Paul Walker. Film in 2015: A look-ahead 2015-01-02T05:00:00Z

How poignant that one of the supreme composers of the Western world should end “Winterreise” with this pathetic beggar, at whom the dogs growl. Ian Bostridge’s ‘Schubert’s Winter Journey’ examines the composer’s melancholy work 2015-02-04T05:00:00Z

What is impressive is how Mr. Lanigan-Schmidt’s dedication to his materials and hobbylike processes has yielded an oeuvre of transcending beauty, eroticized religiosity and poignant autobiography. Art Review: Thomas Lanigan-Schmidt, at MoMA PS1 2012-12-06T21:51:50Z

Seen together, these works form a poignant self-portrait. ‘Steve Wolfe: Remembering Steve’ Speaks Volumes About an Artist 2017-03-09T05:00:00Z

You’d think that chuckles might be inappropriate in this ultraserious opera, but they humanize the characters and give more poignant depth to the denouement. Seattle Opera’s ‘Flying Dutchman’ unleashes gloriously perfect storm 2016-05-09T04:00:00Z

The quiet sadness of his grandmother, who has raised him, is poignant. Village at the End of the World – review 2013-05-09T21:00:04Z

So their return will be poignant: just two nights, and the four symphonies of Brahms, a composer Barenboim performed as a pianist in this space in 1962. Carnegie Hall’s New Season: What We Want to Hear 2023-02-28T05:00:00Z

His death inspired the poignant album closer “Burial,” with a church organ and gospel-choir vocals that heighten the tension between mourning and taking comfort in the idea of a better place after death. How Seinabo Sey Beat Self-Sabotage to Make One of 2015's Best Debuts 2015-10-02T04:00:00Z

In a poignant, penetrating way, each is moved to own their choices and who they are, even as they recognize what it's cost them. Scenes from 4 top Emmy contenders go under the microscope 2014-05-22T04:00:00Z

Mr. Stuhlbarg delivers these poignant words with great sincerity and pathos, opting for naturalistic restraint where others would have telegraphed the emotions. It’s Time to Take a Serious Look at Michael Stuhlbarg 2018-01-19T05:00:00Z

It's funny, and poignant, and there are topical references to Black Lives Matter. Brian Tyree Henry stars in "The Outside Story," a road movie "with the smallest possible mileage" 2021-04-30T04:00:00Z

They had not met since the Peace Project docked in Mexico 43 years earlier, so the reunion was poignant. Mutiny on the Sex Raft: how a 70s science project descended into violent chaos 2019-01-14T05:00:00Z

Questions of national unity are poignant in Afghanistan, where Taliban insurgents are flexing their muscles with near-daily attacks. Afghanistan's Bruce Lee 'reincarnation' becomes Web hit 2014-12-09T05:00:00Z

Instead of being contemptuous and sardonic, the portrait of inchoate adolescent longing in is poignant. Movie Review: ‘Paradise: Hope,’ the Third Film in Ulrich Seidl’s Unblinking Trilogy 2013-12-16T22:48:24Z

The bigger question, propelling this feisty, funny and poignant comedy-drama arriving Friday, is how much its setting — Boyle Heights, Los Angeles — can be upscaled and “discovered” until it is no longer Boyle Heights. ‘Gentefied’ Review: A Rent Is Too Damn High Party 2020-02-20T05:00:00Z

But now and then, when she fleetingly dodders, or loses her train of thought, she becomes a poignant figure. Review | A first lady and a diva show their vulnerability in two productions 2017-05-10T04:00:00Z

The evening’s deepest moment was her tough-tender rendition of “Bye-Bye Country Boy,” a poignant little-known ballad by Blossom Dearie, with lyrics by Jack Segal. Review: Warmth of the American Songbook, From 2 Keepers of the Flame 2016-08-24T04:00:00Z

What follows is part memoir, part social comedy, but also a poignant meditation on what it means to suddenly be promoted to the ranks of the grown-ups. A Warning to Women of a Certain Age: Do Not Go Gentle Into That Good Nightdress 2018-05-29T04:00:00Z

Ms. Herzog places aimless youth and aimless old age in poignant contrast. | '4000 Miles': Young and Old, With No Particular Place to Go 2011-06-21T02:01:26Z

Who knew the classic cheeseburger sketch had a poignant echo with his father’s workplace? ‘Belushi’ Review: A Comic in Full 2020-11-20T05:00:00Z

That combination carries a poignant undertone of loneliness: as a boy who danced, as a hyper-focused professional with little interest in anyone outside the rehearsal studio and as a guest star around the world. Review | He was one of the world’s greatest ballet stars. Then he crashed. 2017-11-15T05:00:00Z

More believable, and poignant, is the notion of Vanessa as a stand-in for American ignorance of Puerto Rico. Theater Review: ‘Adoration of the Old Woman’ at Intar 2014-03-24T23:20:45Z

Arcadia is brilliant: beautiful, witty, poignant, site-specific, exactly the kind of thing I was hoping to find. Revealed ? review 2011-04-09T23:05:39Z

It's unexpectedly poignant to watch her otherness be rewarded, and it is definitely her otherness that underpins Jane's compassion for the people around her. The most authentic part of "Happiest Season" is Jane, who conquers the "quirky woman" trope 2020-12-01T05:00:00Z

“The idea of any child being taken from their family and locked away, all too often in atrocious conditions, is particularly poignant at this time of year,” wrote Rowling. J.K. Rowling Calls for an End to Orphanages 2014-12-18T05:00:00Z

It was particularly poignant as he was telling the story of his trip to Ireland and an accident which left him in constant pain. From Spinal Tap to Mel Torme, readers recall favorite Bumbershoot performances 2016-09-01T04:00:00Z

Most of the speeches were heartfelt and lovely, some funny and energetic, some poignant, some political, some heartbreaking. What Happened at the 2016 Emmy Awards 2016-09-18T04:00:00Z

Anderson regularly switches back and forth between the television story and the drama in the town, gradually putting them into meaningful, dynamic and poignant play with each other. ‘Asteroid City’ Review: Our Town and Country 2023-06-15T04:00:00Z

Given the visual — a stage dotted with flickering stars of light — her song is poignant: “Everyone’s Gone to the Moon,” by Jonathan King. Review: To the Moon! A Vivid Bill T. Jones Dance Leaves Earth’s Orbit 2023-01-11T05:00:00Z

The result is a poignant but deeply flawed novel. Books of The Times: ?The Leftovers? by Tom Perrotta - Review 2011-08-24T22:00:16Z

Portraying both West and one of her more fanatical fans, Ms. Shear delivered a poignant, punchy argument for star worship as a route to self-discovery. | 'Restoration': Claudia Shear at New York Theater Workshop 2010-05-20T02:25:00Z

The poignant melody of the Andante unfolded with dignified resignation. Music Review: Tackling the Last of Beethoven?s Sonatas 2010-10-18T22:00:00Z

Paulson brilliantly mixes the story of how Brian uses his meagre resources to keep alive, with poignant reflections of his earlier life. Anthony McGowan's top 10 global adventures 2012-07-05T08:00:00Z

Only when “Funny Girl” tacks on a coda is there anything truly poignant here, and that’s strictly about the passage of time. Nick Hornby’s ‘Funny Girl,’ About a 1960s BBC Sitcom Star 2015-01-28T05:00:00Z

A Bette Midler-style “Do You Want to Dance?” is oddly poignant, and a parody of “The Ladies Who Lunch,” part of a long story about performing for Pat Nixon, lands pretty well. Review: ‘Mrs. Smith’s Broadway Cat-Tacular!,’ a Ziegfeld-Style Portrait 2015-07-28T04:00:00Z

The two numbers, which comprise the end of act one, segue from Hannaford's classically poignant solo to de Vries's aggressive sampling of Genesis, which provide a backdrop to some very spectacular anthropoid antics. King Kong stomps on to stage in Melbourne 2013-05-27T04:32:00Z

Watching you in these episodes, one can really sense Naz’s fear and fragility, and you’ve made his decline feel poignant and real. “This is the anti-Christ of ‘Law & Order'”: Stars and creators of “The Night Of” weigh in on the making of HBO’s engrossing crime drama 2016-08-18T04:00:00Z

The most poignant offsite event I attended was the reveal of the Cadillac ATS concept at the Argonaut Building on Monday evening in the New Center area, where GM originally housed its design department. What's at the Detroit Auto Show 2012-01-11T21:20:04Z

There is a poignant moment when the prison chaplain cleans up a cell following the suicide of a prisoner. Wormwood Scrubs 2010-05-08T23:08:00Z

The film has a mise-en-scene that the musical can’t come close to matching: the witches are scarier, the giant more poignant, the scenes of Norman Rockwell small town life both sweeter and more sardonic. Broadway’s Big Fish: Small Potatoes 2013-10-10T09:45:50Z

Peoples’s screenplay sensitively explores poignant questions of opportunities lost and gained, and the mother/daughter dynamics are convincing and compelling. ‘Miss Juneteenth,’ ‘Dredd’ and More Streaming Gems 2023-10-24T04:00:00Z

Mostly, it was a singular, contradictory and at times poignant unburdening by an actress who is best known for staying buttoned up. The TV Watch: Jodie Foster Lifts a Veil at Golden Globes 2013-01-14T23:02:55Z

Despite certain poignant moments — mostly involving the otherworldly Jacqueline Green — it’s like being led through a story rather than watching it unfold. Review: At Alvin Ailey, Tragic Themes Overwhelm a Dance 2019-12-08T05:00:00Z

They gave by far the most poignant demonstration of the gulf produced by decades of isolation. A Witness Sees History Restaged and Rewritten 2011-02-11T19:47:04Z

Acknowledging the comedy, however, can unleash waves of energy and build a poignant contrast to the seriousness. Is it OK to laugh at Ibsen? 2010-10-25T09:57:00Z

Armstrong's writing is consistently sharp and poignant, but Kendall's funerary oration gives wings to this heavy scene. "Succession" mourns the Roy "family way" in all its tragic glory 2023-05-22T04:00:00Z

And then there's Enough Said, a film that bears the poignant distinction of being the last to be completed by the late James Gandolfini. Toronto 2013: Reporter's diary 2013-09-09T07:46:10Z

It becomes especially poignant given that the Los Angeles coroner recorded a verdict of suicide, though it was always Kitaj's fate to be a round peg in a square frame. Kitaj: Portraits and Reflections ? review 2011-07-26T18:00:01Z

One line, in reference to the 1991 film “Mississippi Masala,” is particularly poignant: “The desire to see one’s self and community reflected runs deep.” New & Noteworthy Poetry, From ‘White Blood’ to the Book of Job 2020-06-09T04:00:00Z

It is where I visited the most poignant landmark, Van Gogh’s Room in the historic inn Auberge Ravoux. Touring Europe in the Footsteps of van Gogh 2015-12-23T05:00:00Z

Holocaust Memorial Museum, Ron, 97, who was an honorary chair at the event, delivered a poignant speech. They were prisoners in the Holocaust together. They just reunited. 2022-03-29T04:00:00Z

The answer is no less poignant for our having guessed it—that is, absolutely nothing. How Disney's Positioning Moana as the Ultimate Anti-Princess 2016-09-01T04:00:00Z

Their fitful attempts to comfort each other are poignant. In 'This Wide Night,' friends try to transcend trauma to forge new lives on the outside 2012-05-24T20:27:07Z

In a particularly poignant scene in the film, Kennedy reads the racist note aloud to his fellow Santas, all of whom appear emotional as he recites the hateful words. He was harassed for the Black Santa on his lawn. Now, he’s a professional Black Santa. 2022-11-28T05:00:00Z

But on both tunes, it's poignant to see teenagers and their boomer parents singing along. A Broadway update, on the eve of the Tonys 2010-06-13T13:39:00Z

The staircase that was born of this "great folly," as he wrote on a tile, is full of stories, notes, poignant mementos of those who pass by and leave something of themselves. Artist Selaron found dead by his work in Brazil 2013-01-11T00:22:22Z

What is poignant about the original “Des Baches Wiegenlied” is the simplicity — just tenor, piano and a gently repeating melody — that mirrors the lonely isolation described in the text. Music Review: The Knights in Concert in Brooklyn - Review 2012-01-11T22:28:09Z

To me, Taystee’s is the most poignant back story so far. 'Orange Is the New Black' Recap: Taystee Gets Her Moment 2014-06-10T04:00:00Z

Now as his epitaph, it is desperately poignant. Kobe Bryant's Dear Basketball: a love letter to a sport that is now a poignant epitaph 2020-01-27T05:00:00Z

Here and there, though, "The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel" wins you over temporarily with a subtle delivery or a poignant exchange. Review: `Marigold Hotel' offers safe escape 2012-05-02T20:42:09Z

For almost half a century, he’s been weaving this quirk into poignant romantic fables, often galvanized by offbeat casting decisions that add unexpected layers to whatever story he’s telling. Review: Lonely in Los Angeles, Until ‘Ray Meets Helen’ 2018-05-03T04:00:00Z

Anderson’s narrative is certainly entertaining, but he is no confectioner, and the dark, poignant tale he tells is far the better for it. When America’s Cold War Strategy Turned Corrupt 2020-09-01T04:00:00Z

But as the book proceeds, its most poignant story is about how Raj’s character is shaped and educated, until his father’s ideology has become a fundamental part of the boy’s makeup. Books of The Times: Charlie Huston’s ‘Skinner,’ a Thriller With a Troubled Hero 2013-07-14T21:41:57Z

In the novel’s most poignant moment she concludes, “I’m not going anywhere. There’s nowhere else I want to be.” Jeffrey Lent’s ‘Before We Sleep’ follows the long shadow of war 2017-04-28T04:00:00Z

“Our founding mission felt more poignant, more important than ever,” Jane Rosenthal, who started the festival with Robert De Niro, said in a recent interview. The curtain rises on the Tribeca Festival, and New York, too 2021-06-09T04:00:00Z

Even though he’s a malign grotesque, there is, I think, that poignant core to him. This Week in Fiction: Colin Barrett on Anhedonia and Writing Poetry 2016-04-11T04:00:00Z

The dark things going on in the world become very poignant and vivid. James Mercer and the Shins Return With ?Port of Morrow? 2012-03-16T16:12:29Z

She turns everything over restlessly: In her prose, poignant reminiscences sharpen into bitter ironies, or laments reveal flashes of comedy, determination, defiance. Turning the ‘Curse of Ham’ Into a Blessing 2019-01-07T05:00:00Z

Winningham’s rendition of the show’s best-known Dylan number, “Like a Rolling Stone,” becomes a kind of poignant anthem for all of the characters, each walled up in their own fortresses of pain. Perspective | Why ‘Girl From the North Country,’ with Dylan songbook, is the best musical of 2018 2018-12-20T05:00:00Z

It reminds me of another slogan that was necessary, poignant, and then deliberately misinterpreted. Perspective | ‘Believe Women’ was a slogan. ‘Believe All Women’ is a straw man. 2020-05-11T04:00:00Z

Katerina is assigned poignant salon arias and pensive recitatives that bear the contours of folk song. The Fact and Fiction Behind Shostakovich’s ‘Lady Macbeth’ 2022-10-06T04:00:00Z

I always had Arthur Less, but the novel was different—it was a wistful, quiet, poignant book about a man walking around San Francisco. Andrew Sean Greer on Writing and Winning 2017-06-12T04:00:00Z

“With the increased polarization in America, this trail, and the story it tells, is especially poignant and needs to be heard by every citizen.” New U.S. Civil Rights Trail leads to a little-known Virginia museum 2018-08-09T04:00:00Z

But there’s an underlying poignant sadness, too: “Who’s this stupid clown blocking the bathroom sink?” he sings at his own reflection on “Pretty Pimpin,” one of the year’s most confounding and moving songs. Pop, Rock & Cabaret Listings for Oct. 2-8 2015-10-01T04:00:00Z

The discussions of rights and costs and paper stock are pretty engrossing, but a lot less poignant than the personal exploration of what, if anything, can transcend death and loss. In the Hudson Valley, Shakespeare as Man, Myth and Drinking Buddy 2017-07-25T04:00:00Z

The results are at once emotional, poignant and funny. Essential Arts & Culture: The theatricality of the Olympics, Wall Street on stage, a Luis Buñuel opera 2016-08-13T04:00:00Z

It is directed with a sure hand by Ron Howard, creating a wonderfully well-made, suspenseful, exciting, poignant Hollywood classic. The 25 best Tom Hanks films – ranked! 2020-03-26T04:00:00Z

It's clear right from the title that the poignant, funny and profane "50/50" understands the woozy terror of a life or death crisis. "50-50": What's so funny about cancer? 2011-09-30T13:31:00Z

He wrote an essay, “Out the Window,” that turned a simple idea into a poignant expression of human endurance. Donald Hall’s Late Burst of Creativity 2018-10-31T04:00:00Z

"I trust the price mentioned did not discourage you," she wrote, adding a poignant postscript: "I would naturally be happy beyond words for Bird to see the carving if at all possible." Charlie Parker: a genius distilled 2010-03-21T21:30:00Z

“The Kite Runner” has some tough moments, especially when a group of bullies sets upon Hassan, but teens will readily relate to this poignant tale of friendship and betrayal. Perspective | 23 adult books for teens who are ready to read beyond the YA shelf 2021-10-04T04:00:00Z

One poignant “extra” in “Pull, Twist, Blow” is that each artist has chosen work by their mentors to stand alongside theirs. ‘Kingdom of Glass’ on view at Nordic Heritage Museum 2014-01-02T22:51:10Z

Prince Charles described the poem as "poignant and moving". Dylan poem read by Prince Charles 2013-10-03T07:04:35Z

A documentary without dialogue, the film is poignant, funny and sometimes disturbing as it explores infants being raised under vastly different circumstances in Mongolia, Namibia, San Francisco and Tokyo. Hollywood gripped by baby fever 2010-04-12T05:29:00Z

Sure, there was a lot of partying, but something else also took place: a kind of communion that, four months later, feels especially poignant. Perspective | It’s okay to admit it: We’d all like to be living in an Elin Hilderbrand novel 2020-05-27T04:00:00Z

Probably the most poignant part of her memoir comes when, as an adult, Haddish tries to involve her biological father in her life. Tiffany Haddish: ‘If Meryl Streep can go to the Oscars 22 times, why can’t I?' 2019-02-07T05:00:00Z

The camera angles afford poignant glimpses of the singer and conductor interacting, with Mr. Abbado carefully overseeing the ensemble’s volume. Critic’s Notebook: Lincoln Center Screens Bygone Lieder Performances 2014-02-07T22:15:35Z

In the process, Howe makes Wallace into something he had never been: a poignant creature. Review: Tusk: The Human Walrus, the Crazy Carpenter and Hey, Isn't That Johnny Depp? 2014-09-16T04:00:00Z

“It was very poignant to be in this show for this reopening.” Jennifer Nettles Had Sung ‘She Used to Be Mine.’ But Not While Crying. 2021-11-28T05:00:00Z

Meanwhile, Robin Ha, who was born in Seoul, tells her poignant story of adolescent immigration in “Almost American Girl: An Illustrated Memoir.” Review | Some graphic novels to read in 2020 2020-01-06T05:00:00Z

By focusing on musicians who are talented but finally not good or persistent enough to succeed in the big time, “Not Fade Away” offers a poignant, alternative, antiheroic history of the big beat. Movie Review: ‘Not Fade Away,’ Directed by David Chase 2012-12-21T00:07:53Z

“The Electrical Life,” a poignant biographical portrait starring an irresistible Benedict Cumberbatch, helps bring the man into focus, even if it is all a bit fuzzy. ‘The Electrical Life of Louis Wain’ Review: The Cat’s Meow 2021-10-21T04:00:00Z

There is something extraordinarily poignant about this apparently haphazard collection of grabbed snaps from everywhere and nowhere in particular. How Google Street View is inspiring new photography 2012-07-14T18:36:10Z

He seems to be examining those possibilities again in the second half of this poignant collection, though the implication, the hope, is perhaps more fragile than ever. Pulse by Julian Barnes ? review 2011-01-02T00:03:03Z

A poignant jumble of modernism and nostalgia, Europe and America, “The Rite of Spring” and “Appalachian Spring,” the symphony is — like Mahler’s Seventh — a study in overripeness and unsettled mood. Review: The Berlin Philharmonic Gives a Master Class at Carnegie 2022-11-13T05:00:00Z

Comedy Central's "The Colbert Report" picked up its second consecutive Emmy in the comedy/variety series category — a win made more poignant by the fact that the show is ending later this year. Emmys 2014: Repeat winners 'Breaking Bad,' 'Modern Family' dominate 2014-08-26T04:00:00Z

There’s a calmly heartbreaking moment near the close of “Beautiful Life,” a poignant new album by the saxophonist Jimmy Greene. Jimmy Greene’s 'Beautiful Life' Is a Eulogy to a Daughter 2014-11-26T05:00:00Z

Concert-hall rules are born of a well-meaning, even poignant hope: that someone else can have the same reaction that we do to something we love. How (not) to behave: Manners and the classical music audience 2015-04-29T04:00:00Z

Sebastian gives readers a beautiful, emotional romance between two people who are thoroughly perfect for each other; Alistair’s response to Robin’s revelations is as powerful and poignant as the couple’s happily ever after is triumphant. Review | Sarah MacLean picks the best romance novels to read this month 2018-05-21T04:00:00Z

This touching, human film – a poignant picture of how brain injury can affect someone and his family – follows Simon for several months of his rehab. TV review: My New Brain 2010-08-26T06:00:00Z

A Muslim teen girl busts stereotypes in a post-9/11 high school and finds romance in this heartfelt, poignant, and bitterly funny novel by the Iranian American author of "Whichwood." The 15 best tween and teen books of 2018 2018-12-14T05:00:00Z

It was poignant in ways she herself probably didn't intend. Oprah's warm, funny, self-aggrandizing goodbye 2011-05-25T23:07:00Z

In one of the most poignant scenes in the documentary, Brown and Houston are seen playacting scenes from What's Love Got to Do With It in their hotel room. 4 Things We Learned From the New Doc About Whitney Houston 2017-08-18T04:00:00Z

And it is terrific: eloquent and angry, funny and poignant. Billy Lynn's Long Halftime Walk by Ben Fountain – review 2012-07-06T21:55:09Z

“Ideal Home” is genuinely funny, and the poignant and pithy script is aided by the chemistry between its stars, who are equally adept with comedic punch lines as they are with dramatic gut punches. Review: A Child Adds a Layer to Gay Couple’s ‘Ideal Home’ 2018-06-28T04:00:00Z

When paired with Cobain’s music, the effect can be thrilling, and a poignant reflection on time. Kurt Cobain’s Beautiful Heck 2015-05-04T04:00:00Z

But underneath all the antics will lie a poignant tribute. For 'Night at the Museum' director, a nod to Robin Williams 2014-12-19T05:00:00Z

In these poignant yet often bitingly funny chapters, Solomon affirms her descent from the African American foremothers who claimed the Black female experience as their literary turf in the second half of the 20th century. Review | ‘The Days of Afrekete’ is a bitingly funny novel with echoes to ‘Mrs. Dalloway’ 2021-10-28T04:00:00Z

The entries are short, tightly written fragments — a funny, absurd, poignant and melancholy gathering of things that once were, but are now gone. The listicle perfected: Henri Lefebvre's 'The Missing Pieces' 2014-12-08T05:00:00Z

The number is, in fact, a wall sculpture by artist Doug Aitken—and a poignant daily reminder to the homeowners, an energy executive and his wife. Art Shines in a François Catroux–Designed Residence 2014-11-04T05:00:00Z

"It's hokey and wonderful and poignant and powerful." Flaming Lips plan musical 2011-04-05T09:07:22Z

These sections, both poignant and horrifying, are clearly informed by El Akkad’s reporting on some of the world’s most desperate people. ‘American War’ follows today’s vitriol to a dystopian future 2017-04-03T04:00:00Z

In June, at Joe’s Pub, he wore his own clothes and hair, but his voice — airy, languid, day-dreamy — still conjured her, in a homage sweeter and more poignant than ever. The Best Classical Music Performances of 2017 2017-12-06T05:00:00Z

A heart-to-heart that Otto and Marisol have at a café provides another poignant moment, as does a later scene where he explains why he was brusque with her. As "A Man Called Otto," Tom Hanks' gruff yet noble curmudgeon will warm your heart 2023-01-13T05:00:00Z

But seeing the thousands of fists waving in the air to the music was a poignant reminder that the fight is long from over.  Five things we learned from the Bowl's black movie music salute 2014-09-04T04:00:00Z

The movie’s skewering of middle-class values has not lost its bite, but its outdoor shots of the Latin Quarter, a university neighborhood not yet overrun by tourist-trap cafes, have become a poignant time capsule. 10 French Movies That Can Transport You to Paris 2020-11-17T05:00:00Z

Deceptively simple, this is a poignant tale of friendship and loss that shows children that it's what's on the inside that counts. David Melling's top 10 books featuring hugs 2013-01-21T09:00:00Z

Contained within is the photography — some of it elegantly done by Hunt — the essays and many of the more poignant comments the posts drew online.  Devising death: 'Design & Violence' portrays real tools of violence and they are chilling 2015-12-31T05:00:00Z

The choristers seemed poignant and vulnerable as they removed their masks to begin this 90-minute score. Review: For 9/11 Tribute, the Met Opera Returns Home 2021-09-12T04:00:00Z

However sympathetic are the characters and Ms. Exarchopoulos, who produces prodigious amounts of tears and phlegm along with some poignant moments, Mr. Kechiche registers as oblivious to real women. Critic’s Notebook: Many Films Still in Running at Cannes for Palme d’Or 2013-05-23T22:01:08Z

In 2004, he had published his first book, an acclaimed memoir called My Life in Orange; reviewers praised Guest's "astonishing maturity" and called it "poignant, funny and wise". The strange life of Tim Guest 2010-03-28T00:05:00Z

It is a poignant look at the awful midlife decisions that artists have to make when it becomes clear that their careers are not working out. The Coen brothers’ films – ranked! 2018-09-07T04:00:00Z

But this exhaustingly poignant work now seems to capture the Covid-specific grief of the bereaved, bereft even of the rituals of mourning. A Pulse-Slowing Playlist for an Unmoored Time 2020-05-26T04:00:00Z

A lot of interesting things happened here, of which the Indian hospital is one of the most striking and poignant. Royal treatment 2010-04-18T19:00:00Z

Whether the texts were somber or fanciful, poignant or impish, words came first. A Singer for Whom Words Always Came First 2019-02-06T05:00:00Z

Another kind of solace after death arrives in the quietly poignant title track of “Just Like That,” also written by Raitt. Bonnie Raitt Faces Mortality With Compassion and Hope 2022-04-21T04:00:00Z

Platts-Mills sets the cast in motion and chases them all the way towards a poignant hanging ending. Bronco Bullfrog: the film the UK forgot 2010-06-03T22:10:00Z

Lauren delivered "Like My Mother Does" with great feeling, and in one of the show's most poignant moments, went into the audience and sang to her mother. Did Lauren win 'Idol' by singing to her mama? 2011-05-25T01:38:52Z

Deprived of flesh, they are – and this is the overwhelming impression – poignant. Or You Could Kiss Me ? review 2010-10-09T23:06:00Z

In the poignant half-hour that follows, each character offers their viewpoint. Trump called it racist, Obama loves it: why Black-ish is TV's most divisive show 2017-02-25T05:00:00Z

But it is also an achingly poignant contemplation on aging, end-of-life care and autonomy. Onion ring scandals to deadly water parks: Watch these 5 docs when you need a break from true crime 2021-04-11T04:00:00Z

One poignant anthem to the Lord was called “Calm a Storm in Me.” In Appalachia, Crafting a Road to Recovery With Dulcimer Strings 2020-01-03T05:00:00Z

Bernstein’s final stage work, it had its premiere in 1983 and was conceived as a sequel to his bright yet poignant one-act “Trouble in Tahiti,” from 30 years prior. Cuts, Big and Small, Transform Leonard Bernstein’s Final Opera 2018-08-10T04:00:00Z

As a resident of Russia, I found something poignant in the world of these immigrants. Explorer: Israel With a Russian Accent (and Pork) 2010-02-27T04:22:00Z

With this poignant touch, he feels powerfully present, even in his absence. Bumbershoot picks: Elvis art, glass art, neon art and more art 2012-08-30T19:23:04Z

But Rekdal means to report honestly on those “boring … poignant” things that remind one of mortality, and she upholds Bishop’s commitment to making life’s strangeness familiar.  Poet Paisley Rekdal should be better known, and 'Imaginary Vessels' may be the collection to do it 2016-11-11T05:00:00Z

The New Yorker, in a positive review reflecting on both West's talent and ability to generate press, delivers a poignant backhanded compliment: "Does Kanye West need to be any good?" The year in Kanye/The year in Wilco 2010-12-27T21:19:00Z

Her solo piece weaves in many witty, philosophical, poignant comments from her elder. Risk-taking Seattle theaters offer wild surprises 2011-12-01T00:35:04Z

But Fleifel sometimes loses the thread of his narrative, jumping back and forth haphazardly among the decades and burying poignant stories in repeated shots of people riding scooters down alleyways. Ugly realities of refugee camp fills 'A World Not Ours' 2014-10-30T04:00:00Z

Dan O’Brien’s “The Body of an American,” a lyrical, untidy and ultimately poignant work of theater is a ghost story. Review: ‘The Body of an American’: Ties Created by War 2016-02-23T05:00:00Z

And it would take a heart of stone not to be swayed by Jared Harris’s poignant George VI, diagnosed with lung cancer and unable to communicate his plight, politically or emotionally. John Lithgow: 'When the Brexit movie lands, I call dibs on Boris Johnson' 2016-11-02T04:00:00Z

It's a poignant, painful setup for Season 2 – or, as gamers know it, "The Last of Us Part II." "Last of Us" creators on the finale, a game "genetic connection" and what they won't do in Season 2 2023-03-13T04:00:00Z

Her interviews on love are like the show: by turns poignant, quirky and crude. 'Orange Is the New Black' Recap: It's Valentine's Day at the Litch 2014-06-24T04:00:00Z

Robert Frost supposedly said poetry is lost in translation and Sofia Coppola's funny, poignant film resists obvious interpretation. Lost in Translation: No 17 2010-10-16T10:38:00Z

And the book is at its most emotional and poignant when Ekelund describes his own paths: the one he remembers from early childhood, the ones he and a friend take their children hiking on. Review | ‘In Praise of Paths’ reminds us of the incredible power of the simple outdoor walk 2020-05-26T04:00:00Z

It’s a poignant vision of a life in which some of the vexing existential concerns of young adulthood have finally been quieted. Heather Havrilesky’s “Existential” Advice 2016-07-26T04:00:00Z

A final surprise from Todd’s dead beloved mother is somewhat predictable but poignant, freighting the novel’s last pages with an affirming ache. Eli Gottlieb’s ‘Best Boy’ 2015-08-25T04:00:00Z

Psychological symbolism is certainly involved here: I’m stirred by the ardent celebration of freedom that the Statue of Liberty represents, but I’m also responding to that poignant physical gap. Statue of Liberty, Viewed From Afar With Affection 2012-07-03T17:57:32Z

These characters are finely drawn and wholly sympathetic, their lives rendered in precise, poignant detail. Review | An enigmatic child sends a small town on a search for answers 2018-12-05T05:00:00Z

The familiar tough talk and gallows humor among cops seem achingly poignant when the last days are at hand. Dear Match Book: I’m Seeking Satirical, Semifantastical and Stand-Out Literary Fiction 2017-09-26T04:00:00Z

Big bonus: Martin Scorsese's A Letter to Elia, a poignant memoir-doc of a young man's love for the rough mastery of a mentor's films. 
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What they eventually discovered is often delightful and at times so poignant that many of the most crucial details are best left for viewers to discover for themselves. Movie Review: Malik Bendjelloul’s ‘Searching for Sugar Man’ 2012-07-26T21:59:59Z

In December, GQ published a cluster of testimonies about Anthony Bourdain, collected after his suicide, in 2018, which includes a poignant anecdote about his popular “Parts Unknown” episode with Barack Obama. The Two Faces of Suicide 2019-01-16T05:00:00Z

While the ad and its message are poignant, its delivery is off: It compels an entire consumer base to back the #MeToo movement and to positively associate its brand with that cause. Razor burned: Why Gillette’s campaign against toxic masculinity missed the mark 2019-01-19T05:00:00Z

But that is hardly to say that Le grand voyage is an unsatisfactory journey; on the contrary, it is gripping, poignant and very, very powerful. World literature tour: France 2011-03-28T11:30:33Z

The poignant Diary of a Young Girl by Anne Frank is in the best war and conflict category. Very Hungry Caterpillar and Dracula on Puffin list of best children's books 2010-05-06T23:05:00Z

Curtain calls at each event were both funny and poignant. From Ballet Theater, Some Goodbyes and a Promise for the Future 2014-07-06T04:00:00Z

"Doesn't Matter What You Wear" incorporates actual cotton, clothing a forlorn young female in a poignant mismatch of rainbow and floral patterns. Gregory Grenon: oil-on-glass paintings with a stained-glass glow, at Traver Gallery 2012-07-20T15:16:04Z

This poignant debut novel explores the harsh trials of a pair of young boys in Senegal, known as talibé, whose teachers dispatch them to beg for money and food. 10 New Books We Recommend This Week 2021-02-04T05:00:00Z

One of the plainest, yet also most poignant items at the Chrysler Museum of Art’s exhibition highlighting Thomas Jefferson as an architect is a worn, reddish-brown brick with a handprint. Displaying, not Hiding, the Reality of Slave Labor in Art 2019-10-23T04:00:00Z

Its message, and the story of the conditions under which it was made, felt especially poignant to her in this fractured political time. Olivier Messiaen wrote music in a Nazi prison camp. Artist Susan Silton has asked women to perform it 2017-06-14T04:00:00Z

Like “Locker,” subsequent scripts for Bigelow drew directly from tense historical events in living memory, which made them both poignant and vulnerable to criticism. With ‘Echo 3,’ Mark Boal Stays in His Comfort Zone: Danger Abroad 2022-11-16T05:00:00Z

But perhaps the most poignant moment happens on “All Night,” where, on the visual album, Beyoncé shows home videos of tender moments with Jay Z and their daughter, Blue Ivy. Beyoncé brings her ‘Lemonade’ stand to CenturyLink Field 2016-05-13T04:00:00Z

I have had poignant, memorable conversations with other artists who were far from being moral exemplars. Perspective | Great art isn’t always made by good people, but this is getting ridiculous 2018-04-11T04:00:00Z

His smooth aesthetic carries forward with “Minutes,” the album’s penultimate track, and on its final song, “Buy the Pain,” for which Mackned released a poignant music video. Mackned hosts mellow house party at Easy Street Records 2016-07-16T04:00:00Z

It is funny and touching and achingly poignant. Attica Locke, Novelist and TV Writer, Has Some Suggestions for Hollywood 2019-08-29T04:00:00Z

I saw a Cole Escola show last year that included a Tennessee Williams parody that is not only hilarious, but also somehow manages to be as poignant as a good Tennessee Williams play. Simon Rich: By the Book 2018-07-26T04:00:00Z

An exploration of the unremitting wounds of slavery and racism, Ruben Santiago-Hudson’s “Your Blues Ain’t Sweet Like Mine,” at Two River Theater here, is less a play than a poignant, often powerful polemic. Review: ‘Your Blues Ain’t Sweet Like Mine’ Takes On Race 2015-04-30T04:00:00Z

A particularly poignant part is an elaborate fantasy about a huge and lavish bunker in which he and his family would retreat for many years, to emerge only when the war was over. Right to write 2014-12-30T05:00:00Z

I think it's a real and poignant look at a real stunted man who has found a lot of self-protective mechanisms that have kept him in a very sheltered state. Ed Helms talks "Cedar Rapids" and "Hangover 2" 2011-01-24T18:38:51Z

Seeing the men's jaded experience through the nine-year-olds' eyes is both funny and poignant, and a superb example of Parajuly's urge to toy with modes of presentation. The Gurkha's Daughter by Prajwal Parajuly – review 2013-01-25T22:55:01Z

But a bare summary can't do justice to the qualities of this funny, poignant and gripping book. Readers recommend their favourite books of 2010 2011-01-01T00:05:32Z

It was the most poignant moment of SXSWi so fat – and in a talk that his critics would find it difficult to file under "digital utopianism". SXSW 2011: Clay Shirky on social media and revolution 2011-03-12T12:58:53Z

This is one of the master's most poignant short stories, written in his own old age, about a romantic affair between a couple of pensioners. Paul Bailey's top 10 stories of old age 2011-02-02T11:31:42Z

He will bring his distinctive style to a new revival of this poignant Tennessee Williams play not long after the last one. What’s New in NYC Theater 2017-02-02T05:00:00Z

Or it’s the gateway to a harmless hedonism and a yearning, both poignant and slightly pathetic, to experience and be included in everything. Television: Ted Danson of ?Damages?: Humble Egotist 2010-03-20T03:20:00Z

It’s this mirroring that helps make the series so poignant. Movie Review: ‘56 Up’ Adds to Michael Apted’s Documentary Series 2013-01-03T23:33:57Z

In the poignant second movement, the dancers perform a plié in second position — a basic ballet position in which the knees bend outwardly — as their palms face forward. Review: Mark Morris Fits Houston Ballet to a ‘V’ 2019-10-25T04:00:00Z

Photographs of a simple female silhouette carved into sand are especially poignant — you can’t look at the figure without imagining it washed away. The Week in Arts: Clairo, John Cage and Shia LaBeouf’s ‘Honey Boy’ 2019-11-01T04:00:00Z

The new songs ranged from the poignant to the critical. Cecil Sharp Project ? review 2011-03-30T18:31:00Z

During the poignant music that opens the prelude to Act I, Mr. Nézet-Séguin drew radiant yet delicate playing from the strings. Review: ‘La Traviata’ Opens a New Era at the Met Opera 2018-12-05T05:00:00Z

A poignant epilogue set four years later confirms a downbeat fate, while also hinting at a great unrealized feature that might have been. ‘The 2022 Oscar Nominated Short Films’ Review: Small Tales, Big Ideas 2022-02-24T05:00:00Z

There is the silly side of us, there's the serious side of us, there's the poignant side, the thoughtful side. Hasan Minhaj on the joy of making “Patriot Act” and keeping the political personal 2018-12-02T05:00:00Z

He meant not only that Sondheim’s songs are so often crushingly poignant but that the experience of loving them can feel unrequited. Review: ‘Merrily We Roll Along,’ Finally Found in the Dark 2023-10-10T04:00:00Z

Funny, cleverly structured and a little melancholy, the series turns out to be a surprisingly poignant meditation on repressed trauma and self-actualization. 10 Recent Netflix Originals Worth Your Time 2019-03-15T04:00:00Z

The scene is charming and hilarious, but made all the more poignant in counterpoint to a later scene, after the breakup. Annie Hall at 40: ranking the film's funniest moments 2017-04-20T04:00:00Z

At first glance, “Bloodline” looks ominously like a poignant family drama: Members of a close-knit Southern clan gather at a gracious seaside retreat to celebrate their formidable but aging patriarch. Review: ‘Bloodline,’ on Netflix, Depicts a Family With Nasty Secrets 2015-03-19T04:00:00Z

It is a poignant reminder of the time when the building was occupied by the Dia Art Foundation, conceptual commissions appeared on the roof, and March in New York wasn’t dominated by art fairs. Art Review: The Independent, a Maverick Forum 2014-03-06T22:48:57Z

He grew old before our eyes, and so there is a poignant charge to the songs he recorded as he turned 50. Readers recommend songs about old age: The results 2010-08-12T22:00:00Z

Air-raid shelters – never, as it turned out, needed – are items of poignant incongruity. Dominion by CJ Sansom – review 2012-12-06T06:30:01Z

Its final scene offers one of the greatest, most bitterly poignant touches of face-saving deception in the history of cinema. An Essential Retrospective of the French Filmmaker Jacques Becker at the Newly Renovated Film Forum 2018-08-01T04:00:00Z

Like Chase Finlay — also new to the role this season — Mr. Catazaro is wonderfully poignant as his encounter with the Sleepwalker unfolds. New Faces (and Bodies) in Classic Roles at New York City Ballet 2017-02-02T05:00:00Z

The Canadian band had recently achieved some level of renown after a touching and poignant documentary showed how they refused to give up the rock even after decades of failure. Hair metal forever! 2012-07-22T01:00:00Z

That seems deliberate and poignant: after one key argument, Field plaintively collapses to the floor in a sea of crinoline, exasperated by the great man’s verbiage. Jackie finally puts first ladies front and center on the big screen 2016-12-01T05:00:00Z

The scene of Jimboy about to cut out for the road once again — this time for good — is one of the most poignant in the book. How Langston Hughes Brought His Radical Vision to the Novel 2018-01-02T05:00:00Z

In a moment of poignant self-reflection in the film, Shepherd compares his life’s journey to a trek along “a lonely mountain road”. The man who tried to contact aliens from his grandma's living room 2020-08-23T04:00:00Z

In fact, it is quite wonderful — understated, revealing, poignant, and funny. Robert Downey Jr. reconnects with his filmmaker dad in Netflix's poignant documentary "Sr." 2022-12-02T05:00:00Z

Such frank and straightforward storytelling is poignant, even if it sometimes leads to a shortage of tension or plot. Review: In ‘This Is Mary Brown,’ Mom Has Troubles but Is Quite a Character 2015-06-14T04:00:00Z

The American Experience documentary opens with poignant footage of Anderson on the morning of her Lincoln Memorial concert, going though sound checks on the platform, looking nervous and wary. Marian Anderson: A Voice of Authenticity and Justice 2021-11-05T04:00:00Z

Manguso is terribly poignant on little Ruthie’s faith in a maternal love that isn’t really there, and her dawning comprehension of what might have made it impossible. ‘Very Cold People’ Makes Something Beautiful Out of a Painful Childhood 2022-02-06T05:00:00Z

There's something poignant but unsentimental about the relationship the sculpture will have with all those sombre bronze generals on the other plinths. Fourth plinth battle: the heroic child takes the cake 2010-08-19T14:44:00Z

Padma Lakshmi kicked off the selection process with a poignant reflection on Malala Yousafzai, the young Pakistani activist who was shot in the head by the Taliban for advocating women’s rights. Who Should Be TIME’s 2012 Person of the Year? Our Panel Sounds Off 2012-11-13T21:36:16Z

“The photos were so poignant and bittersweet and such a clear example of what every one of us experiences,” she said. Celebrity Pregnancy Is Big Business 2021-01-23T05:00:00Z

Byrd strikes a more serious note in "Lucky," a spooky, poignant solo for Lynch. Review: Dance in 'The Variety Show' is varied indeed 2011-04-22T22:21:03Z

The show came into being as a satire of popular culture and a poignant contemplation of the human need to define one’s place in the world. Decades later, ‘Hedwig and the Angry Inch’ is still bold and fresh 2017-06-14T04:00:00Z

Because while this is certainly a show about loss, it’s also an unbearably poignant commentary on beliefs, the stories we tell ourselves and others to try to lend some credence to existence. How The Leftovers became the most ambitious show of the decade 2017-06-05T04:00:00Z

Throughout, Miller avoids a sensational tone, and her fresh and detailed reconstruction of this famous story is riveting — part tabloid story, part poignant biography. The Dionne Quints Were Premature and Tiny. But Fame Was the Real Problem. 2019-11-04T05:00:00Z

Sir Stanley Spencer’s poignant memories of war are leaving their permanent home at the National Trust’s Sandham Memorial Chapel in Hampshire to be exhibited at Somerset House in London. In Pictures: Stanley Spencer: Heaven in a Hell of War 2013-11-07T03:52:34Z

But when he's asked to read for a smaller role — "The really old one?" he asks — deeper, more poignant parallels emerge. 'Alex of Venice' a mash note to L.A. neighborhood 2015-04-16T04:00:00Z

During another song, the poet recalls a sweet serenade, as orchestral rippling evokes a strummed guitar, until the final darkly poignant vocal phrases, suffused with weeping regret. Riccardo Muti, Indulging a Passion for Overlooked Italian Composers 2016-10-02T04:00:00Z

In the late 1980s, King had some success with his play “The Night Hank Williams Died,” a pungent yet poignant tale of lost loves, missed opportunities, unfulfilled expectations and fatal mistakes that made it off-Broadway. Author, ‘Whorehouse’ Playwright Larry L. King Dies 2012-12-21T15:05:08Z

Dorothy Braden Bruce, a 97-year-old former Virginia schoolteacher known as Dot, described the tense experience of decoding urgent data from Japanese supply ships and also offered up amusing and poignant details about wartime life. The Women Who Helped America Crack Axis Codes 2017-11-06T05:00:00Z

Football, for all of its bravado, is a poignant sport. The Sadness (And Salvation) Of New England Patriots Owner Robert Kraft 2012-09-06T14:00:00Z

Most options lead to other options, a mobile maze of forking paths — some infuriating, some surreal, some poignant, several merely dull. Seeking Pandemic Theater? Your Call Will Be Answered Shortly 2020-10-13T04:00:00Z

One photograph bears the retrospectively poignant caption: “At her father’s law office where she wrote ‘Mockingbird,’ Miss Lee works on her next novel.” Harper Lee, Author of ‘To Kill a Mockingbird,’ Dies at 89 2016-02-19T05:00:00Z

Finally, there is a poignant, achingly fragile Gray, reflecting on the car accident in Ireland that left him in constant pain and feeling "half dead." 'And Everything Is Going Fine': Spalding Gray at his eloquent, daring best in documentary 2011-01-13T21:08:03Z

For his daughter, the posthumous release of his book is particularly poignant in 2021. Decades After His Death, Richard Wright Has a New Book Out 2021-04-14T04:00:00Z

A poignant relic is a wooden dory in the loft of a shed attached to the house. In artists’ studios in coastal Maine, a glimpse at creativity’s interiors

It is similarly poignant that the grieving friends and families who place them at roadsides often find themselves at odds with local councils, who'd have their floral tributes removed under healthy and safety regulations. Watch this 2010-07-06T23:05:00Z

An interview with a Burton distributor, Andres Erlandsen, about the company’s largesse taps into the main undercurrent of this film — one that’s particularly poignant when viewed through the lens of Burton’s recent death. Jake Burton alive and bristling in ‘Dear Rider’ documentary 2021-10-26T04:00:00Z

In a scene as poignant as it is silent, Molly carries two cans of paint – shades of white for a nursery — to Thurman’s very pregnant, indecisive wife, Ida. ArtsBeat: ‘Fargo’ Recap: Making Way for Marge and Lester 2014-04-16T16:19:16Z

Its harmonious intricacy, melodic grace and poignant wit are ideal for this andante. Richard Alston Dance Company at Monclair State University 2014-10-31T04:00:00Z

Wendy assumed he was in a vegetative state, until, in an unbearably poignant scene, a man approached her after a 1999 lecture and introduced himself as her brother. The Wendy Chronicles 2011-08-17T16:52:55Z

“Summer Valley Fair,” a poignant and delicate musical by Dylan Frederick, closed on Sunday, and I almost didn’t see it because the show description in the festival materials made it sound cheesy and bland. New York Musical Theater Festival Includes ‘Deep Love’ and ‘Pope!’ 2015-07-20T04:00:00Z

One of the film’s most poignant scenes spotlights Garland’s status as a gay icon. “Judy,” Reviewed: Renée Zellweger’s Transcendent Performance as Judy Garland 2019-09-25T04:00:00Z

The effect is calming, and at times poignant, when the stories touch on the way food connects to adventure, personal agency and memory. Day Drinking with Japanese TV and comics creator Masayuki Qusumi 2018-07-28T04:00:00Z

It seemed to me like a poignant memory. Review: Police Violence Reaches Opera in ‘Blue’ 2019-08-02T04:00:00Z

It’s as if The Terminator were set to a killer beat with devastatingly poignant lyrics that call to task not only the music industry but also women who failed to continue the feminist fight. Alanis Morissette, Corin Tucker and the Frustrating/ Promising State of Women in Rock 2012-08-28T13:45:49Z

The atmosphere of defiant strength but deep vulnerability is enhanced by a poignant chart on the wall. How music helps children to deal with bereavement 2013-02-24T19:00:01Z

There was this human interaction and it was often rather poignant.” A new book tells the story of the Los Alamos National Laboratory -- one business card at a time 2016-01-22T05:00:00Z

The two players trade voice memos, which make for some of the most fascinating and poignant moments in the show. Classical Music Podcasts Begin to Flourish, at Last 2021-04-21T04:00:00Z

Produced by the BBC, the film features harrowing interviews with the victim's parents, including her mother describing her poignant last moments with her daughter as well as her father's controlled anger at his daughter's killers. Banned 'India's Daughter' fiilmmaker brings her work to the U.S. 2015-03-10T04:00:00Z

She was as poignant in Fedora's death scene as she was flashy in Conchita's big aria. A diva with many hats, Fleming delights fans 2010-12-14T16:19:34Z

Hall returned to the pastoral in verse in 1977, with “Ox Cart Man,” a poignant celebration of rural labor, resourcefulness, and nature’s regenerative cycles. Donald Hall in The New Yorker 2018-06-26T04:00:00Z

Duncan mimics the short, poignant stanzas and lyrical observations in many of Brooks’s poems — a few of which are placed throughout, beginning with “The Busy Clock,” written in 1928 when she was 11. Picture Books That Bring Black Heroes to Life 2019-02-08T05:00:00Z

As well as giving the music a strangely poignant effect, it allows it to shift instantly and infallibly to a more expressive vein. On the art of variation: why Paganini's theme is so popular 2013-07-05T10:36:51Z

Though it is poignant and funny in nearly equal measure, the most remarkable aspect of “Private Life” may be its lack of noticeable exaggeration. Review: ‘Private Life,’ a Piquant Look at a Couple’s Campaign to Conceive 2018-10-04T04:00:00Z

Every moment is wonderful; it’s poignant to catch a couple of glimpses of Bernstein looking pleased. Martha Memories: The Week’s 8 Best Classical Music Moments on YouTube 2017-10-20T04:00:00Z

In Ms. Sirna-Frest’s Act I, the poignant final song is about the bartender Rocky, with a much-repeated line: “The same old room.” Review: Cheering Up Eugene O’Neill With Song, Dance and Puppets 2016-06-20T04:00:00Z

A poignant “60 Minutes” segment captured Bennett’s struggles in rehearsals but his ultimate triumph when he took the stage. Tony Bennett and Lady Gaga Dueted. Their Stars Were Reborn. 2023-07-21T04:00:00Z

The most self-sustaining piece is an oddly poignant black-and-white image of the bare brown feet of a man who seems to hold another, smaller barefoot man on his back. Art in Review: DAVID ZINK YI: ?Pneuma? 2011-07-21T21:44:44Z

Joined by the bluegrass singer and multi-instrumentalist Bruce Molsky, the quartet performed songs, hymns and fiddle tunes from its new CD “1865,” weaving them into a memorial wreath that was fresh, humble and deeply poignant. Review: Civil War Songs of Memory and Loss, at Cooper Union 2015-04-24T04:00:00Z

It’s tender, erotic, awkward, poignant and unarguably, unavoidably, unmistakably gay. Call me by the wrong name: how studios are still trying to straight-wash gay films 2017-11-08T05:00:00Z

Singing playfully defiant songs, Ms. McKay’s magical little-girl voice conveyed a poignant sense of loss that underlined how the antiwar movement of the time often expressed itself in deceptively happy music. Review: Nellie McKay Goes Retro to Days of Song and Psychedelia 2015-04-14T04:00:00Z

One of the most poignant scenes in the book was when Jamie and Claire mark each other before being separated, blood of my blood. ‘Outlander’ Season 2 Finale: I Believe You 2016-07-09T04:00:00Z

The result is filled with striking, poignant images. Review: A ‘Tristan und Isolde’ Plays Out in Shadows and Light 2022-07-29T04:00:00Z

These observations are especially poignant considering Karen’s profession. Can a parent’s liberal values pass the public school test? 2017-01-02T05:00:00Z

It’s poetic and poignant and sets out to present an adult’s view of a child’s world, lightly swathed in nostalgia. Washington National Opera’s tuneful ‘Little Prince’ pleases kids — or does it? 2014-12-21T05:00:00Z

A production interested in subtlety might have excavated poignant resonance from her descent into madness, as when Malvolio garners our sympathy upon being humiliated in “Twelfth Night,” but this is not it. ‘The Two Noble Kinsmen’ Review: Shakespeare, With a Hint of Celine Dion 2021-07-22T04:00:00Z

"These frank and poignant oral histories of many of the nation's musical icons give us unique insights into them as artists, entertainers and human beings," Billington said in announcing the gift. Music mogul donates audio interviews to US library 2012-06-18T17:35:08Z

The exhibition couldn’t come at a more poignant time in the United States — where issues of de-industrialization and poverty are now on the political front burner. Seven photos, seven stories: Chris Killip on capturing the declining industrial towns of England in the '70s and '80s 2017-07-21T04:00:00Z

This, after all, is the thing Bacon was a master of: setting up poignant visual and psychological tensions between fierce passion and provocative restraint. Exhibitions picks of the week 2010-03-27T00:07:00Z

The Iran trip, which took place a week before the disputed 2009 elections and subsequent Green Revolution, was both satirical and poignant, with many of his interviewees later arrested and questioned by police. Who will replace Jon Stewart? 2015-02-11T05:00:00Z

The fact that he has such love for her, that he describes himself as an echo of her in some ways, makes this even more poignant. Jerrod Carmichael Comes Out in a Riveting Special That’s About So Much More 2022-04-01T04:00:00Z

It sounds like a “more ominous” version of the original, he writes — but “just as poignant.” A Jazz Pianist Flips Bach Upside-Down 2020-05-15T04:00:00Z

Innumerable humans are devoured over the course of Jurassic World, but the most poignant death is that of an innocent apatosaurus. Jurassic World and Ted 2: an evolutionary leap for animal rights? 2015-06-18T04:00:00Z

It’s a film that takes on the mood of Mr. Bergé more than that of the prodigy himself, though the depiction of their relationship is at times poignant, if overly restrained. ‘Yves Saint Laurent,’ a Biopic From Jalil Lespert 2014-06-24T04:00:00Z

It was poignant that at this event he wore his military uniform. Prince Harry's gone – so what was the point of his US visit again? 2013-05-16T14:15:00Z

But if this musical seldom succeeds in creating incisive individual character portraits, it’s pretty good at summoning the endless, poignant possibilities that lurk within a crowd. ‘Bob & Carol & Ted & Alice’ Review: Four on a Mattress, With Songs 2020-02-04T05:00:00Z

There are few more poignant scenes than the play's final one, in which wistfulness and hope collide, thanks to some superb acting and writing. Review: 'The Assembled Parties' a terrific drama 2013-04-18T00:15:15Z

The Getty Museum has brought together a poignant exhibition of those images. Esssential Arts & Culture: An operatic Steve Jobs, a museum of O.J. ephemera, Dudamel and Venezuela's crisis 2017-07-29T04:00:00Z

While those in the climbing community are likely aware of how everyone coped, viewers unfamiliar with the story will find "Torn" to be quite poignant — especially as the film enters its third act. "14 Peaks" and "Torn" deliver intense, brutal yet ultimately rewarding mountain-climbing experiences 2021-11-30T05:00:00Z

But in the movie’s mishmash of family and celebrity, Hoffman’s poignant presence is something else. Cooper Hoffman discovers that, like his dad, he’s an actor 2022-02-09T05:00:00Z

Attendees and AmfAR representatives said this year’s event, also set to feature a performance by crooner Tom Jones, was particularly poignant, following medical breakthroughs in trying to find a cure for AIDS. Tom Jones, Pamela Anderson crank up the glamor at Cannes fundraiser... 2019-05-23T04:00:00Z

I took them to the cashier and fumblingly tried to explain my impulse purchase and how this souvenir with a whiff of a poignant story might fit into my apartment without my husband noticing. Treasure Hunting Along the Old Canal 2011-07-07T21:28:24Z

It’s funny but poignant and shows how one person copes. Jon Stewart and Robert Smigel Craft a Comedy Benefit at a Polarized Moment 2017-11-13T05:00:00Z

Stocked with rich character dynamics, the scenes are funny, poignant portraits of friendship, empathy and hope. ‘Pol Pot & Associates, LLP’ at Callan Theatre: A wonky, talky whodunit

For his second encore he reverted to tradition, with a poignant rendition of “The Poet Speaks,” the gentle final movement from Schumann’s “Kinderszenen.” Performances at the 92nd Street Y and the Brooklyn Academy 2010-04-20T22:44:00Z

The lyrics are poignant, like many of Griffin's songs. U.S. country star Patty Griffin gets Londoners stomping 2013-11-18T13:57:30Z

Sounding searing under Mr. Gilbert, the music is anguished, vehement and sometimes delicately poignant. Review: An ‘Ode to Joy’ Troubled by Holocaust Memories 2017-05-04T04:00:00Z

In a poignant account that has stayed with me, one exhausted party worker described how she realised that she had wasted her life the moment Healy loomed over her. Why leftists and 'revolutionaries' are not the best feminists 2013-02-03T00:06:08Z

Watson beautifully navigates the typical coming-of-age struggles with friends, dating, and going off to college alongside a poignant exploration of gentrification, identity, race, class, and culture. 5 Books for Fans of John Green 2015-08-20T04:00:00Z

Threaded with poignant personal recollection, his history is formidable in scope and profoundly humane. The Books We Loved in 2016 2016-12-13T05:00:00Z

But over the years, Wallace helped develop her into one of the richest, and in a way most poignant, supporting characters on the show. RIP, Marcia Wallace; She Made Us Say “Ha!” 2013-10-28T14:42:54Z

The second movement, “A Song for My Father,” features a poignant violin melody, which Mr. Ehnes played with great tenderness. Review: Chamber Music Society, From Mirth to Mortality 2015-04-03T04:00:00Z

Their stories, whether comic, poignant or enlightening, offer some escape from our own worrisome world. Review | When these animals talk, listen: Audiobooks give voice to a cat, a horse, a sheep and others 2020-12-14T05:00:00Z

It was Bruce Springsteen the fan and aspirant, humanizing himself by describing in poignant detail his own rites of rock passage. ArtsBeat: Springsteen"s Message for the Hopefuls at SXSW: Just Go for It 2012-03-15T21:21:05Z

Attenborough must have had a twinkle in his eye when he began his poignant voiceover to this segment: "This old male is at the very limit of his endurance… " Ha! Rewind TV: Borgen; Ripper Street; Africa: Kalahari; Neil Armstrong: First Man on the Moon; Hotel – review 2013-01-06T00:08:08Z

In her telling, these are poignant, even painful moments leavened by quips. Comedians Turn Their Attention to Abortion 2021-09-24T04:00:00Z

Here, for example, is the poignant opening poem, titled "Years From Now": The book includes plenty of Silverstein's earthy humor, from a poem titled "Burpin' Ben" to "Garlic Breath." New books by kid-lit legends 2011-11-11T01:25:25Z

Perhaps the most poignant of all of them: the partly bitten apples appearing in front of Apple stores everywhere, in deference to the company's famous logo. Icons of 2011: A 'winning' actor, a runaway bride 2011-12-30T21:58:08Z

But the novel is tremendously poignant as it follows the life of Joseph, who speaks no words in the Gospels but finds his voice here. Mary Rakow’s ‘This is Why I Came’ asks us to reimagine biblical tales 2015-11-30T05:00:00Z

Adams’ lyrical and poignant novel about the plight of rabbits whose home was under threat became an astonishing success after it was published. 'Watership Down' Author Richard Adams Dies at Age 96 2016-12-27T05:00:00Z

"How she plays this role is much more complex. She makes Cookie more palpable and more poignant. She's very good." 'Empire's' tough Cookie, Taraji P. Henson, always up for a challenge 2015-03-12T04:00:00Z

When paired with the corresponding decline of a vacant house, the scene can be romantic, sad, poignant or nostalgic, and often a blend of them all. An artist captures the ‘ghost voices’ of abandoned houses 2018-07-31T04:00:00Z

At once dryly funny and surprisingly poignant, “Jethica” uses the paranormal as a metaphor for abusive male behavior. ‘Jethica’ Review: Slow Stalker 2023-02-14T05:00:00Z

It’s a poignant portrayal of unconsummated desire and the corrosive effects of homophobia. From the author of ‘About a Boy,’ a comic novel set in the 1960s traces the rise of a sitcom star 2015-02-03T05:00:00Z

He added that Dylan “can be poignant and mocking, angry and exultant, reflective and whoopingly joyful.” ‘Shake It Up’ Aims to Put Rock Writing in the Pantheon 2017-05-16T04:00:00Z

That's the question composer Jason Robert Brown explores in "The Last Five Years," which opened Tuesday in a poignant revival at the Second Stage Theatre, a decade after its first off-Broadway run. Review: 'Last Five Years' gets a poignant revival 2013-04-03T00:03:11Z

But “K” is nonetheless weirdly suspenseful, and also uncannily contemporary — a riff on the theme of modern ennui and frustration that is unsettling and poignant. New Directors/New Films Festival Gives Spotlight to Youth 2015-03-17T04:00:00Z

There is something both unnerving and poignant about seeing these familiar faces turned into younger versions of themselves, because they don’t quite recapture the smooth-faced stars we remember. ‘Gemini Man’ Review: That Assassin Looks a Lot Like Will Smith 2019-10-09T04:00:00Z

Lee, who said he saw a “very thin line” between himself and the man he was covering, is especially poignant. ‘Free Chol Soo Lee’ Review: An Indictment of the Justice System 2022-08-11T04:00:00Z

It was a poignant reminder that while Mr. Glass and Mr. Reich continue to write, often intriguingly and beautifully, their truly pioneering successes are many decades in the past. After Decades, Steve Reich and Philip Glass Reunite at BAM 2014-09-14T04:00:00Z

And the dilemma for his central character, James, in this poignant and playful drama for the National Theatre of , is that even the words are disappearing. Somersaults ? review 2011-03-22T18:55:00Z

Howrey skillfully weaves these questions into an often funny story that grows poignant in its final chapters. Review | The first step to Mars takes place in the Utah desert 2017-03-13T04:00:00Z

More poignant, we also realize that we are seeing her journey of healing. ‘I May Destroy You’ Imagines a Path Back From Sexual Assault 2020-08-25T04:00:00Z

Bill Haverchuck, in one of the show’s most poignant sequences, fixes a dinner of a grilled cheese sandwich, cake, and a glass of milk, and sits in front of the TV. Judd Apatow’s Guidebook for Comedy Geeks 2015-06-25T04:00:00Z

Each of them stops the show at least once, Flórez with a dazzling sequence of nine top Cs in his showpiece number; Dessay with her poignant aria of farewell. La Fille du R?giment 2010-05-20T21:00:00Z

Popular Seattle tenor Ross Hauck stars in a comic and poignant backstage glimpse at a singer's self-doubt while preparing for a performance of "Messiah." A busy weekend for Seattle Baroque fans, with Handel Festival 2011-03-17T20:02:07Z

“Game of Thrones” is at its best when it’s complicating our sympathies, whether it’s Dany cruelly crucifying slavemasters, the Hound exploiting weak farmers or the loathsome Joffrey dying in oddly poignant fashion. 'Game of Thrones' Recap: The Battle at Castle Black 2014-06-09T04:00:00Z

Some objects are especially poignant, including a plastic figure of a child holding a sign that reads, “Caution: Children at Play,” and the life jacket of a Syrian refugee who never reached Europe. An Artist Honors Tamir Rice, One Orange Object at a Time 2018-07-29T04:00:00Z

Jurassic World also paid dues to its predecessor, but The Force Awakens spurs the homage-fest through to more poignant dramatic ends. What Star Wars: The Force Awakens has to do to beat Avatar 2015-12-22T05:00:00Z

It is poignant because it is so good at reminding us of an uncomfortable truth. The Great Gatsby: F Scott Fitzgerald is right on time 2013-05-07T13:41:06Z

One of the hack’s most poignant revelations was how precarious films such as “Steve Jobs” are within a blockbuster-driven business model. ‘Steve Jobs’ and the secular ritual of going to the movies 2015-10-15T04:00:00Z

One of the aims of Dr Sarmast is to work for what he terms the ''musical rights'' of Afghan children – a poignant consideration indeed. Mahan Esfahani: Why I'm proud to take part in the Proms 2012-07-20T14:06:00Z

The film is full of poignant moments as the bands bond in close quarters, jamming on each other's songs, writing new ones and taking old standards and making them new. Super busy SXSW wraps up with poignant moment 2012-03-18T11:16:08Z

Sadly, the answer is a resounding no, even if there is always something poignant in seeing younger and older versions of the same characters haunt each other on stage like lost ghosts. The Last Summer – review 2012-10-12T17:00:22Z

It was poignant because of his medical history, but he sees greater implications. Space tourism will surely be a blast, but can it also improve life on Earth? 2017-11-28T05:00:00Z

But it’s not only the hurly-burly of family life that’s changed Josh: something else altered him, something awful and deeply poignant, something we see at close quarters in his film. New man becomes new dad – the very hard way 2016-11-05T04:00:00Z

These sequences are worthy, persuasive, poignant and, in comparison with the story of the protest, familiar and not exactly vital. Viceland’s ‘Rise’ Relives the Dakota Access Pipeline Protests 2017-01-26T05:00:00Z

As Hannah Gadsby said in her poignant Netflix special, "The moral of our story is we don’t give a f**k about women or children. We only care about a man’s reputation." Bryan Singer bombshell investigation echoes the Harvey Weinstein and R. Kelly stories 2019-01-24T05:00:00Z

It's also a poignant story about family, about grief and adversity, about meeting one's potential, and about the complex relationship that exists between mothers and daughters. "Never Have I Ever" should let Devi be single 2022-08-14T04:00:00Z

On Sunday, comic friends teased Letterman about his late-night wars with Leno and retirement but the honoree struck a poignant note in his acceptance speech. David Letterman, celebrated late-night TV host, receives U.S. humor prize 2017-10-22T04:00:00Z

Dr. Kevorkian taped his patients, creating a video record of their concerns and consent, and a few of those poignant, real-life interviews are also worked into the film. | 'You Don?t Know Jack': ?You Don?t Know Jack,? With Al Pacino, on HBO 2010-04-22T19:28:00Z

There are poignant scenes of an album-signing event in a nearly empty record store, and of sparsely attended club shows. ?Everyday Sunshine? Celebrates Ska-Punk Rockers Fishbone 2011-10-02T02:45:06Z

Tucker opened the piano ballad, her album’s title track, with a poignant entreaty: “Bring my flowers now while I’m living/I won’t need your love when I’m gone.” Tanya Tucker Would Rather Be Celebrated While She’s Alive 2019-08-19T04:00:00Z

“One of the most sampled artists of our time, his music served as the soundtrack for some of our most poignant moments in history,” his family said. Syl Johnson, Chicago soul and blues artist, dies at 85 2022-02-06T05:00:00Z

Although difficult to watch given her previous exuberance, these poignant scenes are handled with honesty, in the knowledge that Mo's achievements empowered many. Young arts critics competition 2010: the winning entries 2010-10-20T22:00:00Z

These are some of the most entertaining, poignant, endearing and awkward stories of failed love from America’s funniest people, which goes to show: happily never after isn’t always a bad thing. It's not me, it's you: six comedians on their best and worst love stories 2018-02-13T05:00:00Z

In one poignant story, a fifth-grade girl worries that the sun may darken her skin, while nearby her father, an esteemed plastic surgeon, carves the faces of Asian women into the Western ideals they crave. Review | As catastrophic waters rise in Thailand, a writer examines the past and imagines the future 2019-02-13T05:00:00Z

The director, JC Chandor, pinpointed the poignant power: “Everything is heightened with him being older. He’s like a bird with a broken wing.” Robert Redford's greatest screen roles – ranked! 2018-08-09T04:00:00Z

The moment was made more poignant by the absence, for the first time in company history, of a young Finnish ballerina coming up to replace her. The Finnish National Ballet at 100 2022-08-26T04:00:00Z

Her reference to Ford’s testimony in the book is especially poignant. Anita Hill still waits for change, 30 years after testimony 2021-09-27T04:00:00Z

It’s a direct and poignant moment charged with palpable electricity and unexpectedness. “Mad Men” and Big Business: How the show’s unabashed conservative capitalism drew us in 2015-05-12T04:00:00Z

The result is a book that is a rare mix of poignant and laugh-out-loud funny. If your child likes comics, here’s a book list to help navigate the shelves 2020-02-27T05:00:00Z

There is something disturbingly poignant in the plain, twangy voice of a North Carolina country girl in the thrall of Hollywood dreams evaluating eyes, eyebrows, noses and cheekbones. Theater Review: Sutton Foster in ‘Violet’ at City Center 2013-07-18T21:33:34Z

But Adam and Paul caught on: the reviews were glowing, the Withnail and I comparisons richly deserved, the humour scabrous and poignant. Lenny Abrahamson: 'Good guys can be complex too' 2013-01-03T17:00:01Z

Hirst's silent, clear, poignant image invites thoughts about death, pity, and our relationship with nature.• Chapman brothers, Von Ribbentrop and Damien Hirst ? the week in art 2011-07-15T08:39:21Z

Stay for the credits; they’re a lovely, poignant reminder of the passage of time, and of lives spent immersed in art and music. ‘Quartet’: The twilight of a diva 2013-01-24T21:56:23Z

Identifying everyone required years of intensive work, making the memorial a piece of poignant research writ large, as well as a powerful symbol of global sacrifice and unity. A Poetic Tribute to Lives Lost During World War I 2015-02-18T05:00:00Z

It can be a wiser, more poignant and telling piece when the nuances of marital stress and yearning are given as much attention as the piquant antics of a lovable pet. 'Sylvia': Canine comedy at Seattle Rep 2011-11-18T21:05:04Z

The computer animation recalls old-school Disney, and the funny, clever, poignant story will satisfy kids and parents alike. The Week Ahead: Apolo Ohno, 'A Christmas Carol,' Northwest Girlchoir 2010-11-28T05:01:00Z

He turns back the clock for an anti-Sony Music rant before rehabilitating an obscure but poignant Terence Trent D'Arby song, Let Her Down Easy. George Michael 2011-08-23T18:58:26Z

But if the design duo had anything more poignant to say, it was lost among blown-up prints of eyeglasses, shoes and giant letters. On Top of the World 2013-01-17T17:58:13Z

Translating its unsettling, subtly charged and ultimately poignant combination of swagger and self-mockery into objects is a challenge that remains unmet. Art In Review: Rashid Johnson?s ?Rumble? at Hauser & Wirth 2012-02-02T23:52:26Z

The poignant truth of human experience is that most of us aren’t in the room. Janet Fitch on writing her new novel, 'The Revolution of Marina M.' 2017-11-10T05:00:00Z

She relives her vivid early impressions of New York and adventures with photographer Robert Mapplethorpe, even sharing the final, poignant letter to her "great friend". Patti Smith – review 2013-06-23T17:41:32Z

A study of a transatlantic student relationship caught up in immigration red tape, Like Crazy struck a chord with its poignant but far from idealised view of young love. Drake Doremus on Breathe In: 'I feel a mid-life crisis coming' 2013-07-18T14:20:20Z

Cohen gives us some poignant examples of the fates of these children who not infrequently, in the case of "Margaret Stewart", for example, prompted genuine affection and loyalty in their British families. Family Secrets: Living With Shame from the Victorians to the Present Day by Deborah Cohen – review 2013-01-26T15:00:01Z

The dedication of “Why Visit America” is perhaps its most succinct but poignant story: “For my country.” Review | In Matthew Baker’s ‘Why Visit America,’ the U.S. is an absurd place, but also full of hope 2020-08-13T04:00:00Z

Rather than signs of dissolution, the black paintings embody a bold and poignant moment just before his unraveling. 'Jackson Pollock: Blind Spots,' in Dallas, is exciting and enlightening 2015-12-21T05:00:00Z

Gawker’s series of stories from unemployed people could be poignant and important.  “We could be really experimental”: Why Gawker went down and why we’ll hate ourselves for missing it 2016-08-19T04:00:00Z

The most poignant moment of this episode was the split second we saw Molesley in his white gloves scurrying down the corridor like a water vole: “Coming, Mr Carson!” Downton Abbey recap: series five, episode five – a sedate echo of previous plots 2014-10-19T04:00:00Z

Dunst makes Rose's fragility and vulnerability poignant, even tragic, but it is a flimsy role, given the narrative shift the film takes. Benedict Cumberbatch is intimidating in Jane Campion's exquisite and potent "Power of the Dog" 2021-12-01T05:00:00Z

The opera unfolds primarily through extended stretches of heated, tortured and poignant recitative. Music Review: One Cruel King, by Way of Vivaldi 2011-08-10T22:00:40Z

Poison Arrow remains a pop masterpiece, its poignant lush melodrama surviving even the high camp of its spoken-word exchanges. ABC – review 2012-12-19T15:23:47Z

The title of this bleak and poignant work refers to a metaphor for Russian life, of being caught between larger forces. Three Books on the Enigma That Is Modern Russia 2020-01-17T05:00:00Z

The result is a deferential and high-minded tribute with an unintentionally poignant quality, as those either side of the camera are placidly unaware that this administration’s achievements were about to be wrecked. Prowling panthers, paranormal spies and vengeful ice-skaters: must-see movies of 2018 2018-01-02T05:00:00Z

The novel takes the form of Ruth’s diary over that year, resulting in a poignant and even darkly comic exploration of adulthood, relationships and memory. New in Paperback: ‘Black Detroit,’ ‘Goodbye, Vitamin’ 2018-07-27T04:00:00Z

What’s most poignant here is the unbridgeable gap between its male soldiers and its women. Paul Taylor: Return of the Beloved Renegade 2010-02-19T16:07:00Z

Instead, it is an intimate and poignant chamber piece set less than a year before his death. Dominic West and Helena Bonham Carter: being Burton and Taylor 2013-07-13T08:00:00Z

"Beastie Boys Story" is more poignant than most documentaries mainly because of this humility. "Beastie Boys Story" film pays bittersweet tribute to the trio's iconic career and friendship 2020-04-24T04:00:00Z

One is a poignant, nearly 600-year-old alabaster figure of a saint who Catholic tradition says was crucified by the ancient Romans – a sculpture that the Nazis looted in 1934 from a German Jewish industrialist. Getty acquires first photos ever taken of ancient ruins ISIS recently destroyed 2015-10-16T04:00:00Z

But those wry, almost poignant opening scenes make up for the occasional generic moments to come. Bruce Willis spies a good time in "Red" 2010-09-30T00:48:00Z

When McCaughey recalls a World Series where Mays "pitched three complete games with an ERA of 1.73," he manages to make even the recitation of statistics poignant. New CD by the Baseball Project touches some Seattle bases 2011-03-03T05:10:34Z

These books featured feisty white protagonists in urban or suburban settings, inventively solving problems by applying kid logic with hilarious and poignant results. A Warmhearted, Multiracial Update to the Classic Big-Family Novel 2017-10-27T04:00:00Z

This is what makes “The Love Song” more than a scabrous sendup of American celebrity culture; it’s also a poignant portrait of one young artist’s coming of age. Books of The Times: ‘The Love Song of Jonny Valentine,’ by Teddy Wayne 2013-01-28T20:14:16Z

Mr. Soo made the most poignant exit of all: After he died of cancer in 1979, his colleagues remembered him in a retrospective clip show, saluting him with their coffee mugs. ?Barney Miller? Remains on the Beat in a Complete DVD Set 2011-10-29T04:00:09Z

But the app horoscopes are just like the wrappers: momentarily poignant, but disposable. How app culture turned astrology into a modern obsession 2019-11-20T05:00:00Z

Then again, if I’m completely honest, I’ve found my own youthful snapshots to be pretty poignant. Flaunt it while you got it? 2013-04-12T00:01:00Z

To celebrate our Tiny Love Stories, the 100-words-or-less pieces we consider “Modern Love in miniature,” we rounded up 10 of the most poignant, funny and poetic published submissions. The Best of Tiny Love Stories 2021-08-20T04:00:00Z

Their love, though, is doomed, much like Ndiaye’s relationship with his mother, who disappeared when he was a child; his vivid memories of her fill the novel with poignant light. In the Trenches of World War I, a Bloody Ritual Fueled by Guilt 2020-11-10T05:00:00Z

The archive, at turns zany and poignant, is a photo album of a long and dramatic decade, from the aftermath of Sept. 11 to the reverberations of the Arab Spring. Bidoun, an Influential Magazine of the Middle East, Extends Its Reach 2015-12-25T05:00:00Z

It is more poignant if we look at this phenomenon from the standpoint of the cicada. Periodical cicadas are an evolutionary marvel. Enjoy the show. 2021-05-25T04:00:00Z

These finely wrought poems, many of which focus on the breakup of her marriage, weave together poignant details and a palpable desire to revert to a wilder, previous state. Review | These new voices in poetry should make us sit up and listen 2019-01-08T05:00:00Z

Especially poignant was Clark’s observation, emphasized by Merkin, that Plath’s last poems were filled with a mixture of both rage and control. Lengthy Biographies, James Joyce and Other Letters to the Editor 2021-01-08T05:00:00Z

Lean’s Dickens films handle visual hyperbole with dexterity and precision, and are poetic, poignant and at times truly terrifying. Guillermo del Toro: the books, TV, films and music that brought me to Crimson Peak 2015-10-10T04:00:00Z

Yet they manage to suggest urban landscapes whose loveliness is all the more poignant for being fugitive. Bob Law drawings find poignancy in simplicity 2016-07-22T04:00:00Z

Hordley’s Cain Dingle is not a caring sort and being trapped with his heartbroken nephew Aaron leads to amusing moments and poignant scenes. British soap ‘Emmerdale’ leads in getting back to the set 2020-06-10T04:00:00Z

There is something so poignant in the performance that it lifts this uncompromisingly savage picture above and beyond its vicious beat-downs. Review: ‘Brawl in Cell Block 99’ Features a Revelatory Vince Vaughn 2017-10-05T04:00:00Z

Ms. Ferris’s memoir, which is freewheeling, poignant, funny and cranky, ends in an epilogue recounting her last hours with her dying mother. The Out of Towner: Shopping at Vince, Sleeping at Dream Downtown 2012-03-22T21:00:17Z

One of "The Wolfpack's" most poignant voices belongs to mother Susanne, an American woman from the Midwest who met Peruvian Oscar on the Inca Trail to Machu Picchu. 'The Wolfpack,' an extraordinary true-life tale of brothers who saved one another 2015-06-18T04:00:00Z

Political statements delivered in the midst of a professional football game, no matter how poignant, are inevitably tinged with some degree of absurdity. Lady Gaga’s All-American Super Bowl Halftime Show 2017-02-06T05:00:00Z

Known in the United States primarily for the long delay in its American release, this memory play from Mr. Takahata is smart, poignant and kind of ordinary. Ranking the Films of Studio Ghibli 2017-10-12T04:00:00Z

But the success of “Game of Thrones,” which begins filming Season 4 this month in Northern Ireland, is particularly welcome and poignant in the capital, Belfast, which for decades had been synonymous with strife. Following ‘Game of Thrones’ to Belfast and Beyond 2013-07-05T17:34:29Z

One poignant shot shows the ziplocked cell phone of a deceased person quietly ringing. In ’76 Days,’ a documentary portrait of lockdown in Wuhan 2020-12-01T05:00:00Z

Her 2013 guest appearance on Snoop Lion’s “Ashtrays and Heartbreak,” the first real taste of her hip-hop makeover that year, was a surprisingly poignant gut-punch about staving off darkness and creeping isolation. Miley Cyrus' New Surprise Album Is Miley As You've Never Heard Her Before 2015-08-31T04:00:00Z

In one particularly poignant aside, a village mourns a soldier found dead after an encounter with the two men. ‘The Mercy of the Jungle’ Review: Soldiers Lost Among the Enemy 2021-05-27T04:00:00Z

In a gesture both fitting and poignant, the Oratorio Society of New York opened the program, with the dynamic conductor Pablo Heras-Casado leading the Orchestra of St. Luke’s. Review: Carnegie Hall Turns 125, With Brass and Other Fanfare 2016-05-06T04:00:00Z

Kidman, in her best work in years, uses her trademark fragility to poignant effect; you fear Becca might break from the strain of keeping up appearances. 'Rabbit Hole': Going down a well of grief with an excellent cast 2010-12-23T21:26:05Z

Especially poignant because, for several decades, “X,” too, has been ignored. Review: After 36 Years, a Malcolm X Opera Sings to the Future 2022-05-15T04:00:00Z

It ends on a poignant note with Mr. Roth’s reflections on aging, death and his own mortality. Books: Rare Unfurling of the Reluctant Philip Roth 2011-09-15T11:30:11Z

“He is really thoughtful and poignant in the way he engages with people.” In Love the Moment They Met 2021-08-20T04:00:00Z

A poignant follow-up to his 2016 “Starless Dreams,” about teenage girls in a Tehran juvenile detention center, the new movie focuses on a group of adolescent girls and older women imprisoned for murdering male relatives. ‘Sunless Shadows’ Review: A Harsh Look at Iranian Women in Prison 2020-08-05T04:00:00Z

Fuller died in October, which makes the end of the year a poignant time to revisit the film. What’s on TV This Week: Kennedy Center Honors and New Year’s Eve 2022-12-26T05:00:00Z

The conclusion of "Shadow" is a poignant and confessional admission of a man trying to find a new sense of family. Kermit Alexander walks into 'The Valley of the Shadow of Death' to explore murders of his relatives 2015-10-02T04:00:00Z

The film is notable for its poignant close-ups, many of which feature a defiant and tearful Falconetti in what New Yorker film critic Pauline Kael wrote "may be the finest performance ever recorded on film." L.A. Master Chorale opens season with 'Passion of Joan of Arc' pairing 2014-10-18T04:00:00Z

Last week, a friend phoned from Benghazi, Libya, to enquire about my health and safety – a poignant irony given that he now lives in a city run by militias. Where now for travel? Lonely Planet closures point to an uncertain future 2020-04-13T04:00:00Z

An even more poignant meditation came back in town, when Phyllis Chen performed an enchanting recital of music for toy piano in the courtyard of the Ojai Art Center, the audience full of children. At Ojai, Peter Sellars Has a Personal Yet Global Playlist 2016-06-16T04:00:00Z

In my mind it is twinned with “Eurydice,” Ms. Ruhl’s devastatingly poignant adaptation of the Orpheus myth, in which a young woman prematurely follows her dead father into the underworld. A Ghostly Father Sets Off a Cascade of Memories 2017-09-28T04:00:00Z

His character's spiritual journey through the afterlife proves particularly poignant now. A Robin Williams retrospective for your weekend DVD consideration 2014-08-13T04:00:00Z

His most poignant piece, "Erosion," has no moving parts, however. Artists re-imagine 'The Game of Life' in satirical exhibition 2011-06-24T21:26:05Z

Even more poignant is “Ruby Falls,” an empathic ballad about an old friend who did not survive his addiction. Waxahatchee’s Katie Crutchfield Is Out of the Storm, Cleareyed 2020-04-01T04:00:00Z

Instead, the Fool leaves her with the poignant Nino Rota melody that becomes her theme. Film Forum Is Reopening With a Classic: Fellini’s ‘La Strada’ 2021-03-31T04:00:00Z

Mr. Duke does some of his best singing on that track, in a breathy but urgent falsetto, and his message of uncertainty is poignant. New Music: Sara Bareilles, George Duke and Ace Hood 2013-07-15T20:42:55Z

“You Know Who You Are,” its latest album, is a collection of indie rock gems that manages to stay energetic, even when the lyrics — by the frontman, Matthew Caws — delve into poignant territory. Pop & Rock Listings for Sept. 16-22 2016-09-15T04:00:00Z

"It was very poignant movement to see a medal winner from the last London Olympics carry the torch for this year's Games." Muse carry Olympic flame in Devon 2012-05-20T19:44:30Z

Using nature and the body, the videos are a poetic, poignant response to the times, from the coronavirus pandemic to the death of George Floyd in police custody. Note to Dancers: ‘Drop Your Self-Consciousness’ and Get Into It 2020-06-17T04:00:00Z

In the most poignant number from his new album, the father-and-son-referencing “Just Call Me, Hank,” Williams avows, “I don’t care about the Hall of Fame.” The Awkward, Enduring Influence of Hank Williams, Jr. 2016-03-24T04:00:00Z

You show the faces of the migrants in some very poignant scenes, as well as their dead and dehydrated bodies. “I was in the rescue boat with them. I saw the dead bodies”: Documentary “Fire at Sea” captures the heartbreak of the migrant crisis 2016-10-21T04:00:00Z

The pieces, each named for a single forgotten word, are a poignant expression of loss. In the galleries: At Greater Reston Arts Center, no straight lines 2014-12-26T05:00:00Z

When Life Starts to Unspool for a Passionate French Filmmaker The poignant, startling French film “The Father of My Children” opens with a whoosh of activity. | 'The Father of My Children': Mia Hansen-Love?s Drama of Family and Heartbreak 2010-05-27T22:02:00Z

The loss of Macke is all the more poignant because, unlike Marc, he never arrived at anything that could pass for a final style. German Artists Who Blazed a Path Cut Short by War 2018-10-24T04:00:00Z

Here, they sign off with an installment that captures all the sensory joys of the movies — delicious food, dazzling backdrops — as well as their poignant subtexts. Perspective | Best movies of 2020: Diverse thrills, chills, Dickensian laughs and a pandemic-friendly trip to Greece 2020-12-07T05:00:00Z

This poignant film is an escape to New Zealand, the "last country to be touched by man ... the most pure, unsullied place on Earth." Previews of the 3 Minute Masterpiece winning films 2011-05-18T19:56:10Z

The director Robert Lepage bungles this poignant scene in his production for the Metropolitan Opera, which returns on Monday. The Father-Daughter Bond at the Heart of Opera’s Greatest Epic 2019-03-19T04:00:00Z

This is more than an Important Documentary; it is engaging and, finally, enraging — as captivating as any Superman movie, and as poignant as a child's plea for help. 


Waiting for 'Superman' Review: Are Teachers the Problem? 2010-09-28T03:25:00Z

For the Andantes, it made their meeting more poignant. Motown's unsung female trio finally gets acclaim 2013-04-04T11:23:09Z

But most readers over the years found the novel poignant and beautiful, a remarkable debut by a writer who had not yet turned 35. Harper Lee, elusive author of ‘To Kill a Mockingbird,’ is dead at 89 2016-02-19T05:00:00Z

As the series went on, the writers played to Macfadyen’s antic comic skills and ability to show Tom’s poignant vulnerability in quieter moments. Matthew Macfadyen Has Mixed Feelings About the End of ‘Succession’ 2023-03-21T04:00:00Z

Archival footage and interviews conducted with Mr. Wojtowicz’s first wife, Carmen; his mother, Terry; and his third spouse, George Heath, are poignant, sometimes hilarious and oddly endearing. A Film on John Wojtowicz, Who Inspired 'Dog Day Afternoon' 2014-08-04T04:00:00Z

All the poignant sentiment that Lennon and Ono imbued the song with is completely sucked out by singer Adam Levine’s reaching aria and overdone vibratos. Here are the 10 most annoying Christmas songs of all time 2018-11-30T05:00:00Z

The night before a wedding is a borderland, a poignant threshold upon which two betrothed people briefly linger, surrounded by those closest to them. ‘The Garden Party’ Is a Tale of Mismatched Families, a Wedding and Lots of Wine 2018-08-31T04:00:00Z

She’s been dancing for months with a strength you don’t expect at this time in a career, but her larger achievement at this performance was the poignant purity of her performance, combining delicacy with boldness. Review: City Ballet, in Turmoil, Shows the Value of What’s at Stake 2018-09-19T04:00:00Z

How poignant, even pointless, all this seems now, with nearly everyone gone. In Morocco, Exploring Remnants of Jewish History 2015-05-30T04:00:00Z

There's a poignant, philosophical moment where wise old Ted tells his younger self, "I looked at you and saw myself." The latest "Bill & Ted" adventure is more bogus than excellent, despite some chuckles 2020-08-28T04:00:00Z

In tonality, it even fleetingly shared something poignant with Rufus Wainwright. Harper Simon 2010-05-16T21:20:00Z

McCartney plays keyboard on the simple, poignant song that is written as a letter from West's mother, Donda, who died in 2007. Kanye West releases new song 'Only One' with Paul McCartney 2015-01-01T05:00:00Z

In short vignettes, Lillian looks back, drawing an impressionistic portrait of a bold life full of ad­ven­ture — erotic and otherwise — in prose spiked with unflinching observations, riotous riffs and poignant reflections. Review: Alison Jean Lester’s novel ‘Lillian on Life’ stars an older woman with moxie 2015-01-13T05:00:00Z

The symbolism is glaringly obvious but poignant nevertheless, as their blindness allegorizes a deep-seated obliviousness to historical reality. Art Review: ‘Projects 99: Meiro Koizumi’ at Museum of Modern Art 2013-01-10T21:33:58Z

He gives a russet-toned, compelling performance, joined by an impressive cast for a gripping and, in every sense, poignant performance. The 25 Best Classical Music Recordings of 2017 2017-12-13T05:00:00Z

And, a poignant reminder of how cultural wheels spin in strange and unexpected directions, as well as a rather uncomfortable moment of self-realisation for a young man attempting to trace his Papuan self. The Mountain by Drusilla Modjeska – review by Lloyd Jones 2013-06-13T06:12:13Z

“The music doesn’t turn dark after the giant kills Acis; it turns more human and becomes tremendously poignant.” Philharmonia Baroque Orchestra Joins Mostly Mozart 2014-08-05T04:00:00Z

It is, at times, almost unbearably poignant in its evocation of childhood innocence and adult stoicism. Claire Keegan 2010-09-04T23:06:00Z

Majors' takeaway is particularly poignant after his thunderous interpretation of this passage: HBO's "Frederick Douglass: In Five Speeches" makes the 19th century agitator the star he always was 2022-02-24T05:00:00Z

The highly unsettling opening scene, in which Zoe Wanamaker's continuously poignant Kate runs out into the garden having had a nightmare, sets the tone for the alarming fluidity of this production. Young arts critics competition 2010: the winning entries 2010-10-20T22:00:00Z

Chan and Rhymer are focused on making keen observations about love, relationships, and marriage while also providing laughs, poignant moments, and ceremonies. Cheers to Maya Erskine, flawless life of the "Plus One" party 2019-06-14T04:00:00Z

It's a poignant view of ghost stories; transforming the idea of the haunting ghoul into a lingering spirit watching over loved ones. "Bly Manor’s" lesbian love story is no cause to celebrate 2020-10-29T04:00:00Z

In one of the movie’s most poignant scenes, she breaks down to a college admissions officer, explaining that if the school doesn’t give Giraldo a chance, the consequences could be dire. Three Baltimore teens bared their souls for ‘Step,’ and the response has been overwhelming 2017-08-01T04:00:00Z

Her new mobile selfies are by turns outlandish, hilarious and poignant. Cindy Sherman Takes Selfies (as Only She Could) on Instagram 2017-08-06T04:00:00Z

For a film obsessed with death, "Restless" is surprisingly light fare, quirkily cute and gently poignant. Dennis Hopper's son makes quirky film debut 2011-05-13T15:04:13Z

While faithful to the original "Dr. Horrible's" goofy but ultimately poignant spirit, this stage version directed by Eric Ankrim and M. Elizabeth Eller cuts loose here and there with delicious self-awareness. Review: There's a lot to love in Balagan Theatre's poignant, fun 'Dr. Horrible' 2010-08-27T21:11:00Z

It’s heartbreakingly beautiful, poignant to real parents, especially since it doesn’t glamorize the arduousness of the task. Motherlode Blog: The Dog Days of I.V.F. Doubt 2013-12-17T20:03:59Z

But Sean Baker’s electrifying low-budget feature, shot entirely on iPhones, turns Christmas into a poignant marker of their disconnection from family and society at large. Hidden presents: 10 Christmas movies you might not have seen 2016-12-14T05:00:00Z

It's a beautifully observed portrait of everyday life and a relationship, they say, poignant and touching. TV review: Super Smart Animals; Roger & Val Have Just Got In 2012-02-08T22:30:01Z

Pulitzer judges praised his “poignant story on a Marine major who helps the families of comrades killed in Iraq cope with their loss and honor their sacrifice.” Pulitzer-winning reporter winner Jim Sheeler dead at 53 2021-09-22T04:00:00Z

The archives at the Andy Warhol Museum in Pittsburgh overflow with poignant notes and valentines from the artist to Gould, along with a few from Gould to Warhol. At Auction, Unknown Warhol Sculpture That Was Gift to Boyfriend 2017-11-30T05:00:00Z

It’s yet another example of the creators imprinting the hosts with their flaws, but a poignant one for a man like Ford, who’s defined more by his aloofness than by his soul. ‘Westworld’ Season 1, Episode 6: The Tipping Point 2016-11-06T04:00:00Z

No two numbers sound alike, whether they’re poignant ballads or rollicking pop. Spare Times: For Children, for Feb. 24-March 1 2012-02-23T22:21:36Z

There’s a beautiful, poignant poem about your mother in this book, and I wonder what you think she would think of you becoming poet laureate? ‘Everyone wants a place where they feel safe,’ says Joy Harjo, the first Native American U.S. poet laureate 2020-01-10T05:00:00Z

There were the usual unanswered phone calls to her mother, the poignant discovery that her son was hiding something from her, and then the heart-stopping denouement of the second episode. Has Sarah Lund in a fluffy jumper gone soft in the final Killing? 2012-11-17T23:14:00Z

It’s a poignant celebration of each individual’s life, a chronicle of village history, and an irreverent raspberry in the face of death. Romania’s countryside: A land that time forgot 2017-08-15T04:00:00Z

The empty calories and fractured attention spans of popular culture are turned, without condescension, into something meaningful and poignant. Review: Los Angeles Philharmonic Makes the Familiar Feel Fresh 2016-03-15T04:00:00Z

Castellani recovers in time for a poignant finale that puts the focus back where it belongs: on Tenn and Frank, trying to figure out, perhaps too late, what they mean to each other. Review | The tortured love life of Tennessee Williams, as seen through a novelist’s eye 2019-02-14T05:00:00Z

Over the summer, I wrote about how filmmaker Alejandro Iñárritu’s virtual reality installation “Carne y Arena” told a poignant story about the treacherous desert crossing many Latin American immigrants make to get to the U.S. Essential Art & Culture: Getty Center at 20, a show unearths Mexican masterpieces, a gold rush opera 2017-12-01T05:00:00Z

I appreciate the article's shout-out to Rachel Getting Married - a film that manages to get under one's skin in surprising and poignant ways, especially after multiple viewings. Jonathan Demme, Oscar-Winning Director, Is Dead at 73 2017-04-26T04:00:00Z

Mr. Crumb’s deeply poignant “Journey Beyond Time” sets African-American spirituals in a musical hall of mirrors with delicate percussion sounds creating a shimmering aura around the singer’s voice. Review: ‘American Visions,’ a Graceful Take on Race, Patriotism and Longing 2016-04-20T04:00:00Z

Rainer stole the film with her brief and poignant telephone call — "Hello, Flo" — congratulating her first husband on his new marriage. Luise Rainer's 100 years of fortitude: Oscar winner was feisty, memorable 2014-12-30T05:00:00Z

Most, like Leo Wringer's poignant Older Black, will wait patiently but never win the prize. Blackta – review 2012-11-06T17:52:00Z

The courtesan pictures are all poignant in their different ways, none more so than the images of the newest arrivals from the country, with voluptuous milk-white bodies and the fresh faces of children. Artists have always glamorised prostitution. Manet savaged all their delusions 2011-02-06T22:36:01Z

And so it proves with “Darling,” a poignant comic study of the bad faith and bad behavior of a narcissistic celebrity and those around him. Review: Kenneth Lonergan’s ‘Hold On to Me Darling,’ a Study of Bad Faith (and Behavior) 2016-03-14T04:00:00Z

After a year of isolation, what could be a more poignant artistic celebration? 10 Classical Concerts to Stream in May 2021-04-29T04:00:00Z

“Tonight is especially poignant for me,” he said. A Night of Wise, Tortured Election Anxiety with Jon Stewart and Friends 2016-11-06T04:00:00Z

Tracks such as The Student or Dubliners are fraught reveries, ambient enigmas, auditory hallucinations of fumbling, tumbling double-bass; stark, poignant dabs of manipulated piano; chirruping percussion and environmental noise. Does Nicolas Jaar's music defy description? 2010-09-01T15:22:00Z

Again and again, Ayers will bracket a poignant passage from a diary or letter with the phrase “at the time,” to set up contrasts with standard interpretations. Seeing the Civil War From the Ground Up 2018-01-12T05:00:00Z

I don’t know if that makes the show any more or less poignant or entertaining than any other time. Ricky Gervais on ‘After Life’ and Life After the Golden Globes 2020-04-23T04:00:00Z

In the hands of this virtuoso, the sound of the tool-turned-concert-novelty is both comical and poignant, like “Moxie” itself. Happenstance’s gleeful hat tip to vaudeville with a wink to the present-day 2016-06-29T04:00:00Z

“No, it’s Iowa,” dutiful farmer Ray Kinsella — played by Kevin Costner — responded to his father with a smile before they played catch under the lights in the movie’s most poignant scene. Field of Dreams: Inspired by 1989 film, MLB makes Iowa debut 2021-08-11T04:00:00Z

Most poignant is the silent procession of suitcase-bearing Japanese Americans, banished from their homes without sufficient warning or reason. 'Bitter and Sweet' is a tale of long-lost love, and a local history lesson 2012-09-26T22:23:05Z

As part of the project, the museum is inviting camp survivors and family members to help share whatever knowledge they might have about some of these poignant pieces. Essential Arts & Culture: Inside the Bonaventure, along the border and a Pacific Standard Time proposal 2018-01-05T05:00:00Z

Lines like “Airbnb/Going to set me free/Slated walls/47-inch flat TV, yeah/Lounging, daybed/American idea” are humorous and poignant comments on both escapism and consumer culture. Kim Gordon Talks About Her Favorite Song 2019-10-09T04:00:00Z

Despite its uneven writing, "A Map of Betrayal" is a poignant novel that portrays the emotional drama of an immigrant torn apart by conflicting loyalties and "bone-deep loneliness." Ha Jin roves U.S. and China, charting 'A Map of Betrayal' 2014-11-06T05:00:00Z

Some reveals are poignant: the decorative flourish as psychological tell. You Show Me Your Décor, I’ll Show You Mine 2020-03-31T04:00:00Z

In each movie, she plays a character with obvious strengths and poignant weaknesses — a solitary seen-it-all lounge singer in “Road House” and an isolated blind woman in “On Dangerous Ground.” Ida Lupino, a Woman of Spine on Both Sides of the Lens 2016-11-24T05:00:00Z

Perhaps “Figaro” is also accountable for the concerto’s affecting mix of effervescence and melancholy, and for the subtly stagy flourish of its finale, in which a poignant minuet interrupts a buoyant rondo. Music Review: New York Philharmonic’s ‘All-Mozart’ at Avery Fisher Hall 2012-06-21T21:44:31Z

The poignant sound of the loons affects us another way: it’s the call of need that nobody onstage is voicing. Dance: How Shall We Know the Choreographer? By His Dances and More 2010-03-12T00:29:00Z

It was an image — like the rest of the evening — that was simple yet poignant. The xx delivers an ethereal yet precise show at the Paramount 2012-10-07T21:10:05Z

But perhaps the most poignant voice to emerge from the flood of coverage on Lennon's death was that of the singer himself. John Lennon fans mark anniversary of singer's murder in New York City 2010-12-08T19:49:00Z

Like its predecessor, "Joy" reveals each character in a series of poignant vignettes. 'Joy for Beginners': Friends help friends break out of their shells 2011-06-02T20:09:05Z

And on the familiar “Adagio — attaca,” they found, in the layered harmonies and rising motifs, stray poignant hesitations as if the whole intensifying tissue of sound were about to falter. Seattle Chamber Music Society summer fest ends on high note 2013-07-27T21:19:21Z

Preoccupied by helping my students craft and publish poignant first person pages on a one-to-one basis, I'd missed the corporatization of academia. A Zoom of one's own: Leaving my job helped my mental health — and my mission 2022-01-16T05:00:00Z

For the artist, these mundane actions couldn’t be more poignant. An artist's imposing new monument at Echo Park Lake honors Angelenos killed in violent crimes 2016-07-22T04:00:00Z

"The winning photo shows a poignant, compassionate moment, the human consequence of an enormous event, an event that is still going on," said chairman Aidan Sullivan. Arab Spring shot wins World Press Photo award 2012-02-10T12:41:11Z

The most poignant exhibit, though, and the most strikingly monumental, must be the display of three 8-foot-wide white-marble slabs carved with royal symbols, likely made to decorate the Cairo palace walls. The Art Lovers Who Founded Cairo 2018-03-19T04:00:00Z

“This year’s concert will certainly be remembered as a poignant celebration of his music by his friends, peers and fans,” reads a statement on the concert website. Bowie Tribute Concert to Have a Second Night, at Radio City 2016-01-14T05:00:00Z

Harnessing her vocal in a way that would have made Professor Hines proud, James ran with that poignant tone. A Voice of Gold, a Life of Pain: Etta James, 1938-2012 2012-01-20T22:06:06Z

Is there anything more poignant than a person willing to sacrifice everything in pursuit of a better life? Europe’s emigration museums: Remembering the long goodbye 2018-04-03T04:00:00Z

In this precarious moment, such communions feel newly poignant. A Poet of Found Language Who Finds Her Language in Archives 2020-06-08T04:00:00Z

And he kind of creates the most beautiful, realistic tomes that show something so deep and poignant, and also laugh-out-loud funny. Toni Collette: Hollywood’s gender imbalance is a grave problem 2014-07-18T04:00:00Z

Through an epic assembly of often poignant stuff runs a confessional thread, as the artist narrates his journey through the world of modern art, between Africa and Europe and back again. The anti-museum flinging open its doors 2013-07-01T15:51:36Z

It is at once more violent and more poignant. TV picks: Insatiable 'Golan,' NZ mysteries, 'Halt and Catch Fire' 2015-05-30T04:00:00Z

As a poignant study of the ageing process, it's on a rough par with The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel. The Expendables 2 – review 2012-08-16T14:29:00Z

Litton expertly paced the crescendos and accelerations of the first movement, and there were fine solos from several quarters, notably the poignant oboe of Nicholas Stovall to open the second movement. National Symphony Orchestra shines in quiet moments at Wolf Trap

That the effect was so arresting at the New York Philharmonic’s performance Thursday at David Geffen Hall — even so strangely poignant — was of course because of Mr. Salonen, and Alan Gilbert, who conducted. Review: Philharmonic Goes Dada With Esa-Pekka Salonen’s ‘Karawane’ 2016-03-18T04:00:00Z

A poignant scene has Deirdre overhearing her daughters having a conversation at her expense. A superb ensemble anchors "The Humans," showcasing an anguished, claustrophobic Thanksgiving dinner 2021-11-24T05:00:00Z

Four years on, a poignant new drama is telling the story of what happened to Mr Jefferies, whose life was affected by the allegations long after his name was cleared. Wrongly accused Jeffries TV drama 2014-12-09T05:00:00Z

In the director Rudy Valdez’s poignant but shortsighted documentary, “Carlos,” that same magic comes alive through performance clips from various eras of the Mexican guitarist’s half-century-long career and commentary about his life offstage. ‘Carlos’ Review: Santana’s Soulful Legacy 2023-09-28T04:00:00Z

Broadsheet recommends novelist Isabel Allende’s poignant and hilarious talk on passion, writing, beauty and feminism given in Monterey, Calif., at the TED conference last year in March. TED: Even more elitist than we thought 2012-05-18T12:40:00Z

The group relies on contemplative song writing, forgoing Hüsker’s brashness for strategic poignant musical boldness. Sugar's Copper Blue Reissued: 20th Anniversary of Bob Mould's Groundbreaking Album 2012-07-24T14:00:09Z

In a poignant picture of grinning young men leaning out of a railroad car and raising clenched fists on their way to the Aragon front, the friezelike composition highlights the specific traits of each soldier. Has War Changed, or Only War Photography? 2022-10-13T04:00:00Z

The irony of pitting a bickering couple simultaneously against a reconciling one can be quite poignant, considering we know what’s coming in the final act, if the two pairs are deftly balanced. Seattle Opera welcomes back live audiences with a moving ‘La Bohème’ 2021-10-18T04:00:00Z

Paced more like a short story than a novel, “Smile” creates contradictory feelings of poignant stagnation and accelerating descent. Roddy Doyle was determined to write a novel that shocked — and succeeded 2017-10-17T04:00:00Z

Lucas-Perry also nails the evening’s single most poignant moment as an inmate being released, and realizing that some items are missing from her belongings. ‘Ain’t No Mo’’ Review: After Great Tribulation, an Exodus of Black Citizens 2022-12-02T05:00:00Z

The Ghesquière arrival is the more poignant because it marked the departure of Marc Jacobs, 50, after almost 17 years at the helm. Playing Fashion Musical Chairs 2014-02-25T18:17:45Z

They find beauty in the dingiest locations, including a poignant sex scene set inside a car wash, over the hypnotic sounds of brushes slapping and dryers humming, as soap suds stream down the windshield. 'Tangerine' a joyful girlfriend movie for our modern age 2015-07-09T04:00:00Z

Later, in a democratic Brazil, she made equally poignant drawings and works in clay and plaster, which explore more elemental themes of hunger and nourishment, ritual and obsession. Weekend in Los Angeles: That Touch of Brazil 2017-08-30T04:00:00Z

Jeffrey Seller, a producer of “Hamilton” and other shows, is in the director’s chair here; he struggles to underscore the most poignant or triumphant vignettes. Review: In ‘The Man in the Ceiling,’ Jules Feiffer Adapts Himself 2017-06-14T04:00:00Z

It was both poignant and appropriate for the former A-list Hollywood star to begin his sell-out tour in Detroit. Charlie Sheen's Violent Torpedo of Truth sinks star live in Detroit 2011-04-03T15:24:42Z

Her final scene with Charlie is heartrendingly poignant, but without sentimentality. Smashed – review 2012-12-13T21:50:01Z

Featuring a wealth of live rehearsal and performance footage, When the Drum Is Beating is a poignant and high-energy story of resilience. ArtsBeat: Hello, Ozzy: Tribeca Lineup Adds Ozzy Osbourne and Carol Channing Documentaries 2011-03-14T16:00:16Z

King had seen some of the organization’s poignant social media videos, and decided to reach out. Why a media executive left his career to help maligned donkeys and save them from slaughter 2021-12-02T05:00:00Z

Though told as a children’s story, “The Little Prince” is one of the most poignant and profound books in French literature. 35 Books Everyone Should Read in Their Lifetime 2015-07-22T04:00:00Z

"Dreaming doesn't cost anything," contends Lily Yeh, the passionate subject of "The Barefoot Artist," a poignant documentary about the transformative power of art. 'The Barefoot Artist' poignant look at transformative artist Lily Yeh 2014-12-17T05:00:00Z

His widow, Dwina, said the poignant last composition made her weep when she first listened to it. Gibb's final song to be released 2014-07-31T04:00:00Z

In one poignant passage, Iolanta wonders whether eyes are only for crying. ‘Bluebeard’s Castle’ and ‘Iolanta’ Open at the Met 2015-01-30T05:00:00Z

Under the direction of Stephen Rothman, Kotsur uses ASL to transform Mamet’s words into a visual symphony and this challenging character into a poignant figure of isolation. Don't miss a word of this 'American Buffalo' 2015-02-25T05:00:00Z

In real life Walker died, but at the end of "Furious 7," his character, Brian O'Conner, was given a poignant retirement send-off in which he'd be living with his wife and raising a family. 'Furious 7': 'See You Again' songwriter inspired by a different loss 2015-04-07T04:00:00Z

Sign language, he thought, was inherently theatrical, and the struggles of the deaf to make themselves understood would be a poignant example of the complexities of all human communication. Phyllis Frelich, Tony-Winning Actress and Deaf Activist, Dies at 70 2014-04-15T00:26:30Z

Two great movies, because I think Anomalisa is groundbreaking and poignant and beautiful... Jennifer Jason Leigh: ‘I've been at this precipice so many times' 2016-01-02T05:00:00Z

We enter into an implicit pact, giving over to the images, letting ourselves laugh at something silly or cry at something poignant, all in the cloistered company of strangers. Terror often disrupts movies within movies 2012-07-25T11:46:13Z

To me, its poignant edge and enigmatic classicism bring to mind the work of Antony Tudor. Electric Counterpoint, Asphodel Meadows, Carmen; Dystopian Wonders; Breakin' Convention 2010-05-08T23:07:00Z

This poignant line highlights the improbability yet vital necessity of women supporting each other at a time when it’s needed more than ever. How Hustlers shows the importance of female solidarity 2019-09-19T04:00:00Z

Her take was dark and serious; Mr. Kelly’s is witty and poignant. Dance Listings for June 3-9 2016-06-02T04:00:00Z

That it manages to be a poignant, hilarious and topical self-portrait is a small miracle. The Best Half-Hour of Comedy in 2020 Is About … Scaffolding? 2020-11-02T05:00:00Z

It was a subdued night, but still filled with No. 1 hits and poignant songs played to a sold-out crowd at Nashville's Bridgestone Arena, which housed as much cross-genre star power as the building's seen. Big names flock to Nashville for flood benefit 2010-06-23T06:31:00Z

In this instance, the scene would have been grimly poignant: Donald Trump would get up and exit the room. Perspective | President Trump and his eldest son celebrate Father’s Day with a family tradition: grasping for approval 2020-06-19T04:00:00Z

The Italian director and actor Vittorio De Sica is best known internationally for the searing, poignant, humanist pictures he made in the late 1940s and early ’50s. Review: From Vittorio De Sica, the Comic Anxieties of la Dolce Vita 2017-06-15T04:00:00Z

Their offscreen roles as artist-activists set an exemplary model for a conscious, conscientious life, yet that history makes a biting, poignant contrast with their roles here. Why ‘Do the Right Thing’ Is Still a Great Movie 2020-05-05T04:00:00Z

They were made all the more poignant for him by the death of his own father, a taciturn cattle dealer from Northern Ireland, in 1986. Music from the underworld 2016-04-14T04:00:00Z

But both publications evoke the same, almost excruciatingly poignant late-summer mood. Perspective | The end of summer is always sad. This year, my grief led me back to a favorite short story and book of photographs. 2020-09-21T04:00:00Z

He has an attractive Michael Breckerish sound on uptempo tenor sax, a Stan-Getz-to-Andy-Sheppard feel on ballads and soft Latin themes, and a poignant ambient tone on flute – with the latter expanded by electronics and echo. Theo Travis: All I Know: An Anthology ? review 2011-02-03T22:21:00Z

Frenkel’s story, from lost bookshop to lost trunk, is a poignant reminder of this. Her Francophilia Saved Her From the Death Camps, but Not From Great Danger 2019-12-12T05:00:00Z

Not very significant things suddenly look very poignant and charming. Literary Brooklyn Gets Its Leading Man 2012-06-22T20:21:18Z

The end sequence, elegant and poignant, reveals the book’s bittersweet resolution, which reinforces the notion that “even if I let you go, I won’t let you go.” Like Riding a Bike: A Middle Grade Novel Asks, What if We Do Forget How? 2021-11-12T05:00:00Z

The chapters in which Brodeur is making her way in New York and working long hours at a job she loves are some of the most poignant. A Mother’s Secrets, a Daughter’s Lies 2019-10-15T04:00:00Z

It's all the more poignant to watch now as many of us, myself included, are grappling with how we want to reintroduce ourselves to the world. Netflix's "Samurai Gourmet" has the pleasure-seeking, main character energy I want for the summer 2021-06-26T04:00:00Z

They're among the most poignant, sly and moving pieces on view. 'UH-OH: Frances Stark, 1991-2015' at Hammer Museum is an enthralling midcareer survey 2015-11-11T05:00:00Z

Trethewey points out that her own name, Natasha, is the Greek word for “resurrection,” which feels especially poignant, given her mother’s fate. Review | In ‘Memorial Drive,’ Natasha Trethewey reclaims her mother’s life from the man who took it 2020-07-31T04:00:00Z

This poignant and elegiac book is a worthy finale to an extraordinary series. Crime fiction: the return of Thursday Next, Maisie Dobbs and Kurt Wallander 2011-03-09T23:47:07Z

“The Last Supper,” his last one, and his new “My Last Play,” a poignant meditation on failure wrapped inside a theatrical stunt, are bizarre and truly bold experiments in form and manipulation. | 'My Last Play': Oh, Come in. Glad to See You. Would You Like a Book? 2010-12-17T21:58:35Z

It is funny, too – downright hilarious when it wants to be – and achingly poignant when it wants to be too. The Wire re-up: season five, episode seven ? The Wire v The Sopranos 2010-03-29T23:15:00Z

It’s understandable, though, if you mistake the chalky clouds in which he moves throughout this harshly funny, surprisingly poignant one-man show for the smoke of firing synapses. Review: John Leguizamo Turns Nutty Professor in ‘Latin History for Morons’ 2017-03-27T04:00:00Z

Her final scene, with Mimì on her deathbed surrounded by friends, was all the more poignant because she showed no trace of melancholy. Review: A Thrilling ‘La Bohème’ at the Met, Radiating Warmth 2018-09-26T04:00:00Z

And their writing inspired me to think, to create someone who was polite, threatening and poignant. Breaking Bad’s Gustavo Fring Talks About the Series Finale 2013-09-30T22:37:54Z

Truth has always been stranger than fiction, and more poignant. | A Year of Favorites 2010-12-21T18:32:55Z

But perhaps the most poignant moment came when Run talked about the breakup following the death of Jam Master Jay. Pearl Jam closes 2-day Made In America festival 2012-09-03T10:01:04Z

Something in its obdurate difference – not England, not anything other than England – made it unspeakably poignant, a place that doesn’t change the backdrop to a love that doesn’t. 'My romantic holiday’: the good, the bad and the calamitous 2018-02-10T05:00:00Z

There's a radio interview with you talking about Amy Winehouse, before she died, and you say that she feels that she is immortal, which seems very poignant now. Marianne Faithfull: 'I don't think I had any choice but to be decadent' 2013-01-10T19:00:00Z

A writer recounts a time-shifting journey across a changing Europe in this poignant novel. 10 New Books We Recommend This Week 2017-01-05T05:00:00Z

Mr. Michieletto’s concept works beautifully in this charming and poignant production, which was broadcast on Austrian television. Critic’s Notebook: Verdi’s ‘Falstaff’ at the Salzburg Festival 2013-08-06T21:00:31Z

Understated and hugely poignant, its 14 episodes trace the decline of the British Raj from Gandhi's inflammatory Quit India speech of 1942 to partition and the riots that followed. Your next box set: The Jewel in the Crown 2010-09-17T05:45:00Z

On Tuesday she conveyed fiery intensity and poignant vulnerability. Review: Listening at the Met, After James Levine 2017-12-07T05:00:00Z

That was repeatedly apparent in Wednesday’s thrilling, poignant and occasionally horrifying episode, as characters saw the unpredictable human elements of their schemes subvert them. ‘Mr. Robot’ Season 3, Episode 2: Elliot Hits Undo 2017-10-18T04:00:00Z

It's a poignant episode, a dream-like short story that ends with CK eating dinner with a random Chinese family – profoundly happy despite, or perhaps because of, the deep language and wealth divide. Louie: a comic look at the messy life of a divorced dad – box set review 2014-07-24T04:00:00Z

In the new movie “Everest,” which is about an expedition on that mountain in 1996, the most poignant of the five deaths portrayed onscreen is one that hews carefully to real events. What Disaster Films Miss About Death 2015-10-01T04:00:00Z

Perhaps it was this that made the relationships on screen so poignant and particular for me. The mother of all murder stories | Eva Wiseman 2016-01-10T05:00:00Z

She had the evening’s first real show-stopper with “Ah, chi mi dice mai,” and she made her pivoting back to Giovanni in the second act poignant rather than ridiculous. In ‘Don Giovanni’ at the Castleton Festival, one key player is missing

Wrapped in hermeneutic enigmas, the objects emanate a poignant mix of beauty and mystery. The Art Lovers Who Founded Cairo 2018-03-19T04:00:00Z

Wilson’s a strong dramatic actor; he was quirkily poignant as uptight Arthur on Six Feet Under, and he could give Dwight Schrute real poignance on The Office when called on. Review: Playing House; or, The Repeat Offenses of Backstrom 2015-01-22T05:00:00Z

Katie Crutchfield’s new album, Cerulean Salt, was already a favorite, but seeing the songs performed live made them even more poignant, powerful and memorable. SXSW 2013: Recapping the Music Festival 2013-03-18T14:58:24Z

Blanchett’s Tremaine is the prisoner of her personality, parrying Cinderella’s aghast “How could you?” with a vitriolic and poignant “How could I not?” Cinderella Review: Disney Rekindles Old Magic 2015-03-13T04:00:00Z

Judges called Snowdrops "a hypnotically seductive and compelling exploration of moral danger", while Franklin's novel is "a poignant suspense novel drenched in the languid atmosphere of small-town Mississippi", they said. Males in the frame as Gold Dagger shortlist revealed 2011-08-19T10:52:59Z

“Michael Pollan wrote about a butter that he tasted in Spain and he said it was absolutely ‘poignant.’ Our messed-up relationship with food has a long history. It started with butter. 2017-03-20T04:00:00Z

A poignant synesthesia attends the whiff of a rose, or coffee, or sea air, or the perfume of a passing woman. Perfect Sense: Love in the Time of Catastrophe 2012-02-01T16:45:20Z

Ballasting the production is Brown’s Joan, full of spiritual conviction yet afflicted near the end with poignant doubt. Shakespeare's 'Hamlet' and Shaw's 'Saint Joan': A marathon for four actors, and the audience 2018-04-09T04:00:00Z

So her nouveau is a poignant expression not just of this year’s harvest, but of the year itself. We deserve ‘nouveau’ wine in 2020 — a vintage meant to be fun and drunk right away 2020-11-20T05:00:00Z

There is the vexatious feeling that Mr. Clark didn’t follow through on his ideas, which makes the dance’s more poignant moments all the more frustrating. Dance Review: Michael Clark?s ?Who?s Zoo?? at Whitney Biennial 2012 2012-04-01T21:00:01Z

Perry then changed clothes - and hair - to perform her ballad By the Grace of God as part of a poignant segment highlighting domestic abuse. Grammy Awards 2015: In pictures 2015-02-09T05:00:00Z

As "Beside Bowie" unfolds, the possibility of what collaborations might have been — and what music itself lost with Ronson's premature death — gives the documentary a poignant sheen. David Bowie’s collaborator Mick Ronson remembered: “They were brothers and they were partners” 2018-06-09T04:00:00Z

But with Greta Gerwig at the helm of the ship, the film became the poignant satire on the female experience that many gleefully enjoyed. "Barbie" unleashes the overkill that is the Mattel Cinematic Universe 2023-07-27T04:00:00Z

During her final months, as talk turned to her memorial service, she handed him a list of eight traditional hymns — a poignant commission and in some ways a spiritual bequest. Critic’s Notebook: Dave Douglas’s New Album, ‘Be Still’ 2012-09-23T21:32:21Z

The solemn slow movement in this performance was like a poignant dialogue between stern strings and a pleading piano. Guests Artists Enliven the Mostly Mozart Festival 2019-08-05T04:00:00Z

And yet you delivered a humorous, poignant monologue reflecting your equal parts hope and fear for the future. Dave Chappelle on Trump, Cosby and His Netflix Deal 2017-03-17T04:00:00Z

Her singing is feisty and earthy one moment, poignant and shimmering the next. Review of Metropolitan Opera’s ‘L’Elisir d’Amore’ 2012-09-25T12:41:03Z

But it's something far stranger and more poignant than that. Review: Crispin Spaeth's dancers in the dark 2011-04-11T20:32:04Z

Return to Zero A couple torn apart by the stillbirth of their first child gets a second chance at parenthood in this poignant new drama; Minnie Driver and Paul Adelstein star. Saturday's TV highlights and weekend talk shows: 'Return to Zero' 2014-05-16T04:00:00Z

So Horne, as determined as she was beautiful, went ahead and fashioned one of the 20th century's most exemplary and poignant show-business careers. A Great Lady Makes Her Exit: Lena Horne Dies at 92 2010-05-10T19:10:00Z

Nowhere is this more apparent than in the poignant figure of the illusionist himself. Edinburgh film festival review: The Illusionist 2010-06-17T08:41:00Z

I wanted them to be poignant for anyone for a relationship, even a guy and a girl. Tegan and Sara on Queering Pop and Ditching Guitars 2016-04-20T04:00:00Z

Though the movie may initially seem like one for the senior set, it's an authentic, poignant, often quite funny piece likely to touch a range of viewers. Friendship finds its step in 'Six Dance Lessons in Six Weeks' 2014-12-11T05:00:00Z

As Mitchell showed in “The Bone Clocks” and his autobiographical novel “Black Swan Green,” he’s one of the most charming and poignant recorders of adolescence. David Mitchell’s ‘Slade House’: A ghost story that began haunting Twitter 2015-10-15T04:00:00Z

As the afflicted professor, Moore is subtle, poignant—great, really—and a sure winner. Here's Who Will Win at the Oscars 2015-02-19T05:00:00Z

A funny, poignant look at the complexities of the immigrant experience in America, "Familiar" is the more personal work for Gurira, born in Iowa but primarily raised in Zimbabwe by parents who were intellectuals. 'Walking Dead' star Danai Gurira also breaks out in the New York theater community with two plays 2016-03-11T05:00:00Z

I thought the moments of connection the characters shared once they returned to their own lives were poignant. Review: In ‘The Layover,’ Strangers on a Plane and Missed Connections 2016-08-25T04:00:00Z

It surges and scalds, and it's striking, as promising as it is poignant. New band of the day – Wardell (No 1,480) 2013-03-27T17:04:22Z

The show validated fans when it confirmed that Bernard was a host himself, a realization made especially poignant when Bernard kills Theresa. The 11 Most Interesting 'Westworld' Fan Theories 2016-11-30T05:00:00Z

The here and now is what we've got and, given how wondrously strange and poignant it is, the here and now is really all we need. 'Jim Shaw: The End Is Here' taps public's id in a weird, humorous way 2015-10-27T04:00:00Z

It is baffling, then funny, and then quite poignant to witness. Review: In ‘The Private Life of Mrs. Sharma,’ a Search for Release 2016-12-08T05:00:00Z

It's excellent, funny and poignant, though you can't help feeling that Radio 4's traditional audience is not quite who Micky is aiming to inspire. Breaking news; The Reith Lectures; Micky Flanagan: What Chance Change? 2010-06-05T23:05:00Z

Accepting his award for work in the television show “Hatfields & McCoys,” he stuck with a poignant reminiscence about attending his first Globes show, long ago. ‘Argo’ and ‘Les Misérables’ Win Top Golden Globes 2013-01-14T05:28:16Z

Perhaps most poignant to recall today is the death scene and miraculous return to life he performed as Harrison Ford’s father in Steven Spielberg’s Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade in 1989. 'He defined an era and a style': film world mourns Sean Connery 2020-10-31T04:00:00Z

In a panel called “Dead Horse,” one sees a haystack, cavalry and a dead horse, enlarged as a poignant detail that threatens to destabilize the abstraction with a powerful, representational and emotional focal point. Review | Mark Bradford turned a bloody Civil War battle into art that will haunt and entrance you 2017-11-08T05:00:00Z

Each occurs in an alternate universe that nevertheless very much resembles our own; each deals with mortality and memory; and each somehow manages to be hilarious, poignant, and frightening, in shifting ratios. This Week in Fiction: Karen Russell on Balancing Humor and Horror 2016-06-13T04:00:00Z

There are also quotes - poignant now - from Amy's application essay to the Sylvia Young Theatre School, which she attended as a youngster. UK Jewish Museum explores the real Amy Winehouse 2013-07-02T14:36:08Z

The choreography doesn’t make the point sharply political, or poignant, or comic. Review: At New York City Ballet, a Too Quiet Debut 2023-02-02T05:00:00Z

They are the shrieking, costume-wearing testament to the very real, very poignant influence of “Hamilton,” even from thousands of miles away. At the first 'Hamilton' performances, the party is just getting started 2017-08-12T04:00:00Z

This is an accomplished and searing political memoir — one woman’s poignant and pointed eulogy for a nephew who deserved more than passing notoriety as the “boy on the beach.” Review | After a photo of her nephew’s drowned body went viral, a Syrian woman tells the family’s story 2018-08-20T04:00:00Z

I thought about Anna Deavere Smith’s “Let me down easy,” her poignant show about illness and dying. Born in the U.S.A.: When the president met the Boss 2012-05-28T18:00:00Z

But he’s a man and that’s enough for Rosemary, who, in a funny yet poignant scene, convinces him to marry her. Love is no ‘Picnic’ in ReAct’s production 2013-07-08T18:36:09Z

Early on, he earned the nickname “Midas” for his golden touch, coaxing poignant, rollicking or riveting performances from some of the biggest names on Broadway and in Hollywood. Mike Nichols, ‘The Graduate’ director, dies

For those visiting outside these celebrations there are plenty of relevant sights to see, from the well known East Side Gallery, official Mauermuseum and Checkpoint Charlie, to more off-the-beaten-path, poignant locations listed below. Berlin Wall: GDR relics to see, 30 years on 2019-10-29T04:00:00Z

Mercury’s pinnacle bow at “Live Aid” was charged by a poignant sense of subversion. When Queen Took ‘Bohemian Rhapsody’ to Live Aid 2018-11-09T05:00:00Z

Nevertheless, the odd image was gratefully brushed aside by Shaham's poignant reading, which grew in stature as it went along, producing some of his most gripping playing. This sound did not need a film dimension 2015-03-30T04:00:00Z

There he meets Della, a Black teacher, and they embark on a complicated, poignant romance. The books to read in September 2020-08-31T04:00:00Z

“It’s very poignant for this moment when everyone’s attention span is so short and everyone is scrolling through images and texts and just skimming the surface of things.” Warhol Museum Director to Join Sotheby’s New Fine Art Division 2016-07-07T04:00:00Z

Sweetly, gently funny and poignant at the same time, “The Funeral” is perfectly pitched to a child’s understanding. Review | Best new children’s and YA books to read this month 2018-05-02T04:00:00Z

He tweeted that he was thankful to be a part of Sinclair and to have “produced poignant and insightful commentary the past two plus years.” Sinclair dumping former Trump aide Epshteyn’s commentaries 2019-12-11T05:00:00Z

Who these people are – or were – and their connection to the books, I don't suppose we'll never know - which makes them seem all the more poignant. The secret contents of secondhand books 2012-12-05T15:13:31Z

Moments like that echo some of the film's most telling and poignant scenes, such as when the boys sees the woods for the first time. 'Wolfpack' follows 7 kids locked in an apartment, and raised on films 2015-01-24T05:00:00Z

More important, they use the splintered music to convey a fractious but blessed interconnectedness that makes their retrospective coming apart all the more poignant. The Pain of Fame, With Sondheim, Warhol and Capote as Guides 2017-10-06T04:00:00Z

The final chapter, which brings the now-middle-aged players back for one final game, is poignant, and memorable. 'The Hustle': Black, white and playing basketball in 1980s Seattle 2010-12-30T20:27:04Z

And by the end, the poignant kicker — the dream of being friends forever now haunted by a newfound awareness of its unlikelihood — feels like an afterthought instead of the whole point. ‘Summering’ Review: The Besties Confront Bittersweet Truths 2022-08-11T04:00:00Z

One of my most poignant memories is doing that while fireworks went off on New Year's Eve. United front: breasts without the airbrush 2014-09-06T04:00:00Z

It was a beautiful, poignant, nearly self-contained story, but in the larger context of the series it was also about Amy. Enlightened Watch: Consider Levi 2013-01-28T13:00:52Z

If the players in the First seem constantly to play Devil’s advocate, questioning one another’s musical statements, the Second invites them to collaborate on a blended palette of sounds and occasional passages of poignant wistfulness. Review: The Orion Quartet Plays Kirchner Disguised as Bartok 2016-05-20T04:00:00Z

To evanesce means to disappear gradually, vanish or fade away, and Ms. Hinkle’s work is poignant, timely — and coincidental. One Artist’s Melancholy Look at Missing African-American Women 2017-04-14T04:00:00Z

What makes it all the more poignant is that this is not really fiction. Pull no punches: how sports movies swapped triumph for truth 2018-09-10T04:00:00Z

Gollum, for instance — a monster introduced in Jackson’s “The Lord of the Rings” trilogy and seen more recently in the first “Hobbit” film — was a poignant screen presence. ‘The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies’ review: Lots of fighting, not much hobbit 2014-12-16T05:00:00Z

He was especially compelling in the episodic Ballade No. 4 in F minor, shifting from passages of poignant lyricism to bouts of thickly textured intensity. Review: Leif Ove Andsnes Gives a Thoughtful Recital at Carnegie Hall 2015-11-17T05:00:00Z

Nicholas Masters, a bass from New Canaan, Conn., impressed with his poignant singing of “Bottom’s Dream” from Britten’s “Midsummer Night’s Dream.” Music Review: Answering the Call for New Talent 2011-03-14T22:46:23Z

Some are witty, some are poignant, all are ingenious. Sounds Jewish: September 2010 2010-09-08T09:47:00Z

But the book doggedly follows its intriguing conceit, rendering even more poignant the scene of the czarina and her daughters busily sewing jewels into the seams of their garments, optimistic to the end. Fictional Glimpses of the Past: From the Tudors to the Czars 2018-08-10T04:00:00Z

The new season is as bizarrely funny as the first, but it can also shade bittersweet, even poignant. ‘I Think You Should Leave’ Gives Us the Jerks We Deserve 2021-07-06T04:00:00Z

As a result, the play is neither as funny nor as poignant as it aspires to be – even if its heart is in the right place. Blue Hen 2010-05-06T22:15:00Z

The third iteration is, in its own way, the most poignant. How an uninvited pest doomed the ash tree 2018-06-18T04:00:00Z

Allende captures something poignant and real about the end of life, in characters who wake up thinking, "If nothing hurts, that means I woke up dead." Isabel Allende is a star, but 'The Japanese Lover' doesn't shine 2015-11-12T05:00:00Z

“These frank and poignant oral histories of many of the nation’s musical icons give us unique insights into them as artists, entertainers and human beings.” Bono, Bob Dylan and Ella Fitzgerald Among Rare Interviews Soon Available to the Public 2012-06-19T10:45:32Z

These albums are poignant and enigmatic and weird, their motivating force remaining a mystery. Judging albums by their cover (songs) 2016-11-23T05:00:00Z

Some of the most poignant images from the book are of tree-planting efforts in Berlin and Kiel in the years after World War II, when both cities were still in ruins. Perspective | Appreciating the need for — and the beauty of — the urban forest 2019-12-10T05:00:00Z

This time, though, their purpose is more poignant. Review: ‘T2 Trainspotting’: Once Defiantly Wretched, Now Worn Down 2017-03-16T04:00:00Z

Part of the appeal of monster tales is that they underline what it means to be human, and “Mongrels” is most poignant when the narrator’s werewolf concerns align with recognizable anxieties. The wild boy wants his fangs in Stephen Graham Jones' "Mongrels" 2016-05-06T04:00:00Z

It’s easier to let a carefully placed Frightened Rabbit song make us feel all of our feelings than to write poignant dialogue, but that doesn’t mean it’s the right thing to do. Should you watch Cameron Crowe’s TV show ‘Roadies’? Let’s talk it out. 2016-06-23T04:00:00Z

“When Yunus begins to unravel, befriending a fly, reliving the death of his parents and walking around his cell as if it’s the city, he is poignant and tragic.” 12 New Books We Recommend This Week 2020-04-30T04:00:00Z

It is an admittedly gloomy piece, and the somber English horn solos, representing Mélisande’s forlorn voice, were poignant. Kavakos ends two-week NSO residency by taking up the baton 2015-05-14T04:00:00Z

The film is self-consciously mythic, and that’s why it’s poignant: it wants to be a great and timely western. Hell and High Water: why film-makers should keep it slow and simple 2016-09-23T04:00:00Z

Paulus' direction grows more supple, the quirks of the characters become more richly inhabited, the music travels to more poignant places and Mueller's performance just goes from strength to strength. 'Waitress' serves up a slice of star power in Jessie Mueller 2016-04-24T04:00:00Z

There is something inherently poignant in the idea of a first, doomed love that can never be recaptured. For the Art of Love and the Love of Art 2022-08-05T04:00:00Z

The actors glide in and out of moments that are by turns intimate, absurd, frightening and poignant. ‘Motherless Brooklyn’ Review: Edward Norton Fights the Power Broker 2019-10-31T04:00:00Z

It’s gross, but propulsive, and also — in the case of a graphic miscarriage during her ferry commute, to which her boss displays a stunning but all-too-believable indifference — brave and poignant. For a Woman on Wall Street, Crude Jokes Weren’t the Worst of It 2022-10-02T04:00:00Z

But the novel never feels anything less than captivating because Winman creates such a flawless illusion of spontaneity, an atmosphere capable of sustaining these characters’ macabre wit, comedy of manners and poignant longing. Review | Sarah Winman’s ‘Still Life’ feels like a Saturday night among old friends 2021-11-22T05:00:00Z

All doctors wrestle with these issues, yet they seem particularly poignant when we are dealing with tiny babies. She Had a Preemie — and Then She Started to Ask Important Questions 2020-01-28T05:00:00Z

But there’s something poignant about a man dressed as a woman, talking about gender. Jerick Hoffer flips his wig for ‘Hairspray’ at 5th Avenue 2013-06-19T19:14:18Z

The same humor suffused much of his work, alongside its poignant commentary about the struggles and foibles of ordinary people. Country folk singer John Prine dies at 73 of coronavirus complications: report 2020-04-07T04:00:00Z

It’s a simple statement, but one with so much poignant meaning in the aftermath of the death of an unarmed 18 year-old. The Ferguson library gives a lesson in community 2014-11-25T05:00:00Z

Though the section is not new, the most poignant dance moment occurs when Mr. Clark inserts something like a flash mob in the middle of “Who’s Zoo?” Dance Review: ?Who?s Zoo?? by Michael Clark at the Whitney 2012-04-06T21:38:01Z

The first heady months of World War One form the poignant backdrop to 'Join Now! Eager but doomed: the British Tommies who hoped to be home by Christmas 2014-06-27T04:00:00Z

The words are as poignant as they are diverse: Saintly. Motherlode Blog: One Word to Describe Your Mother 2014-05-09T13:59:39Z

In a poignant plotline, Leo’s father and stepmother have a baby who is born in the same hospital where Nina died; her entrance into the family exists in contrast to Nina’s exit from it. In This Y.A. Novel, the Grief Comes Before the Tragedy 2022-06-21T04:00:00Z

A close-range film about distance, the short, poignant documentary “I’m Leaving Now” unfolds like a character study. ‘I’m Leaving Now’ Review: When the Price of a Better Life Is Exile 2019-09-05T04:00:00Z

And though “Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom” has been around for a long while and will endure in the archive, the algorithm and the collective memory, there is something especially poignant about encountering it now. ‘Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom’ Review: All the Blues That’s Fit to Sing 2020-12-17T05:00:00Z

And nearly every time you feel you’ve heard enough anger or weepy self-indulgence, someone steps forward with a dry punch line, a poignant soliloquy or a calming word in a loved one’s ear. Who says “Life Sucks”? Chekhov, through Posner, at Theater J 2015-01-20T05:00:00Z

“It’s a huge saga, kind of poignant now.” | Cats, the New Rulers of the Art World 2013-07-09T22:50:00Z

Really, really funny, poignant, heartfelt and, at the same time, hilarious. Showtime's "The One and Only Dick Gregory" pays tribute to the legend who left comedy for activism 2021-07-04T04:00:00Z

Still, much of his signing was poignant, ardent and supplely phrased. Opera Review: A Winning, Cautious, ?Don Carlo? at the Met 2010-11-23T12:39:00Z

Mr. Pitt wound up giving one of the best speeches of the night — funny, personal and poignant. The Carpetbagger: New York Film Critics and National Board of Review Awards 2012-01-11T23:27:30Z

Russell Brand provided the evening's rare poignant moment during a tribute to his late friend, Amy Winehouse, who died a month ago after struggling for years with drug and alcohol abuse. Perry wins top award but Beyonce baby tops show 2011-08-29T14:01:11Z

Executed in an uninflected D.I.Y. documentary style, “Generation” is alternately funny, poignant and sad. What to See in New York Art Galleries This Week 2017-02-09T05:00:00Z

The environmental-themed works were particularly poignant, set in an area that is choked with coal dust. A Photo Show Where Exposure Has Two Meanings 2010-09-29T13:15:00Z

The book is River’s story, poignant and intense as readers see her work to remove layers of emotional armor, revealing anger and fear and a deep desire to be seen and loved, flaws and all. Sarah MacLean picks the best romance novels for March 2016-02-23T05:00:00Z

“Sixteen,” from this pop-punk duo’s 2017 full-length debut, is so poignant a sketch of romantic disappointment that it qualifies for entry into the all-time canon of songs on that theme. 14 Pop, Rock and Jazz Concerts to Check Out in NYC This Weekend 2018-02-22T05:00:00Z

It is a brutal kind of love story told in three very different acts, each one poignant to the point of tears. Moonlight’s writer Tarell Alvin McCraney: 'the story needed to be out there' 2017-02-05T05:00:00Z

His most poignant tale took place after a sell-out show at Wembley. Emma Freud: David Cassidy, my No 1 dreamboat Santa 2012-12-22T00:05:56Z

Palmer said she is moved by the idea that Sherald’s poignant image will live on in major art institutions for the world to look at and learn from. Amy Sherald Directs Her Breonna Taylor Painting Toward Justice 2021-03-07T05:00:00Z

It was meant to be an amusing and poignant recollection of suburban America in the Reagan era. How we made Donnie Darko 2016-12-12T05:00:00Z

Sometimes you run across a sight that’s bleak or poignant — a desolate alley or suffering person. Review | GALA’s ‘Dancing in My Cockroach Killers’ is gritty and lyrical 2018-06-11T04:00:00Z

Where Donoghue's historical novels kindle imaginative worlds from the embers of forgotten lives, these are like sparks that flare and go out: poignant, but sometimes perfunctory. Astray by Emma Donoghue – review 2012-11-09T22:54:01Z

Even the funniest tend to also be poignant. One Million Tiny Plays About?Britain 2010-05-23T20:45:00Z

While a visit to Hadrian’s Wall is intriguing, for me, the most poignant and memorable wall experiences are those from Europe’s recent past. In Europe’s border walls, a divided history and a united future 2018-09-11T04:00:00Z

It felt oddly poignant to stare at an exhibition of ornate battle armor while being so physically vulnerable. I Went Naked to a Museum, and It Was … Revealing 2018-05-07T04:00:00Z

While congratulations are often in order when it comes to pregnancy/baby announcements, this one feels particularly poignant because of what it took to get there. The poignant victory of Britney Spears' pregnancy announcement 2022-04-13T04:00:00Z

It all becomes so much a garrulous setup for the play’s poignant Big Reveal, which is likely to leave some ­theatergoers feeling manipulated. ‘In Praise of Love’: A second look at the 1970s play’s retorts and tear-jerkers 2015-01-05T05:00:00Z

A number of Delaney’s photographs are of people studying their surroundings—“watching and waiting for something to happen,” as she puts it—and, with the eyes of the present, those images tell a poignant story. What Public Life Used to Look Like in San Francisco’s Mission District 2018-10-12T04:00:00Z

"Coming and going is why the place is here at all," reads the neon writing on the walls—indeed, a poignant nod to Folkestone’s busy past and transformative present. The Eclectic and Daring Folkestone Triennial Festival 2014-09-04T04:00:00Z

"This is Us" Is as smart, poignant and compelling as any show I've ever seen Complex, loveable characters and genius direction. The Best TV Shows of 2017 2017-12-04T05:00:00Z

And he's a funny, likeable, immensely gifted and present guy who has grown more poignant and wise in middle age, and yet remains addicted to risk. At the Royal George, the world according to John Leguizamo 2011-02-06T13:40:10Z

The poignant, graceful video is empathetic, pointed and very moving, meaning that you might find yourself choked up as you watch. Music Video of The Week: John Grant “Glacier” 2014-01-22T16:56:59Z

And a rendition of “Amazing Grace” by the Rev. Wintley Phipps was so poignant that it had mourners reaching for the tissue boxes at their feet. Perspective | John Lewis’s death was loss for us all. But the powerful Capitol service for him was a blessing. 2020-07-27T04:00:00Z

“It’s quite poignant, there’s people I’ve worked with here since the beginning of my career. It’s been a very special night,” Bailey told Reuters after the show. Burberry shows its colors for designer Bailey's swansong 2018-02-17T05:00:00Z

These letters are often anthologized, and rightly so: They’re vivid, suspenseful and filled with poignant detail about the suffering of the survivors. They Were the Renaissance Men of Roman Antiquity 2019-12-10T05:00:00Z

Peppering in tracks from from Buffalo Springfield, Everybody Knows This Is Nowhere, Harvest, and The Beach, Young showcased his already extensive catalogue through poignant, purposive vocals and ardent acoustic strumming. Neil Young Live Album Reveals Singer-Songwriter’s Emotions 2013-11-27T13:00:02Z

In a poignant reminder that we still live in the same world as the characters in the film, parents of a new baby note the infant will be 85 years in 1900. Killed for asking for a vote: Mike Leigh brings 'Peterloo' to Venice 2018-09-02T04:00:00Z

And in so doing, this remarkable portrayal of female friendship offers a poignant, elemental take on the lives of working-class women in urban Mexico today. ‘La Mami’ Review: Tough Love 2022-04-07T04:00:00Z

"The Beautiful Girls" -- A poignant look at the women of "Mad Men." 'Mad Men': A guide to catching up on 18 essential episodes 2015-03-23T04:00:00Z

The combination of the charismatic baritone Christopher Burchett’s fit, near-naked body, which exuded life, and his anguished, world-weary singing was poignant. Review: Fort Worth Opera’s ‘Buried Alive and ‘Embedded’ Conjure Poe’s Dark Terrain 2016-04-25T04:00:00Z

His character descriptions are ripe with detail; his dialogue impeccable, crafting startlingly poignant moments. 'The Madonnas of Echo Park': gentrification and change in everyday L.A. 2010-06-16T23:59:00Z

“But what if I lost an eye, an arm, or a leg?” she said, defusing the poignant moment with gallows humor. First love on the front lines: Coming of age in the Hong Kong protests 2020-01-28T05:00:00Z

“The Sportswriter,” “Independence Day” and “The Lay of the Land” are all set on my stomping grounds and, besides being poignant and hilarious, nail the Jersey Shore perfectly. Bruce Springsteen: By the Book 2014-10-30T04:00:00Z

Bust magazine, with its feminist streak, has a support group for those laid low by their tiny breasts, and its recent entries are poignant. For the A-Cup Crowd, Minimal Assets Are a Plus 2010-09-01T22:30:00Z

A single mother in rural Pennsylvania tries to find out what is poisoning her family and farm in a real-life environmental thriller with a poignant outcome. 50 notable works of nonfiction in 2018 2018-11-13T05:00:00Z

There are many modern lessons in this story, with several poignant themes, but mostly it is about the magnificent silliness of journalism. Perspective | How to make the Internet bug out 2019-02-08T05:00:00Z

A poignant cello melody opened the colorful, communicative piece, which peaked at a heartfelt intensity, woven through with tart writing for brass and winds. Music Review: Talk Frames Performance of Recent Works 2011-06-21T21:12:01Z

It’s hilarious, and also much more poignant than anyone would expect. Documentary Now! Why you should make this the next TV show you watch 2019-08-01T04:00:00Z

Indeed, one of the strangely poignant aspects of the film is the sense that the gleaming, forbidding landscape Mikkelsen is forced to trudge across might not be there for much longer. Mads Mikkelsen: ‘One word wrong and you're a dead person’ 2019-04-25T04:00:00Z

It was moving and poignant but never sentimental. Guardian First Book Award reader nominations: Dead Men by Richard Pierce 2012-07-18T14:04:46Z

The finished film – a prickly, surly, poignant, yet oddly amusing caper – was cobbled together with just about every form of financing one could imagine. ‘It has to be hot. It has to be creative’: Don Cheadle on his 10-year quest to play Miles Davis 2016-04-02T04:00:00Z

The letters sure to get the most attention are the book’s most fanciful and most poignant. Review: In ‘Dear Mr. You,’ Mary-Louise Parker Writes to Men, With Lust and Rue 2015-11-11T05:00:00Z

She sang a poignant rendition of "The Long Goodbye," then left the stage. Stars turn out for Brooks & Dunn's 'Last Rodeo' 2010-04-20T06:07:00Z

Photograph: David Newell Smith/Observer The Rolling Stones are to return to the scene of one of their most memorable and poignant concerts by once more playing at Hyde Park in , the band has announced. Stones to return to Hyde Park 2013-04-03T13:15:01Z

This fascinating study of the mechanics of visual reflection and perception is also a poignant meditation on how photographic keepsakes speak to each other across a chasm of years and decades. Artist's photos capture cozy worlds within worlds 2010-04-22T21:19:00Z

I am a Black child, in a poignant attempt to explain herself to herself, since no one else was bothering to. They Were Black. Their Parents Were White. Growing Up Was Complicated. 2021-02-23T05:00:00Z

Not all of it's good and some of its poignant. Ed Helms comes into his own as new boss of "The Office" 2011-09-27T20:26:22Z

Both were immediately displayed in his extremely spacious, poignant reading of Schubert's Unfinished Symphony, whose fragile themes emerged from an grippingly sombre pianissimo in the strings. Prom 34: BBCSO/Bychkov – review 2012-08-09T16:06:12Z

Nonetheless, the reader who perseveres will be rewarded with shimmering prose, a few hopeful moments and a poignant surprise ending. 'Partitions': Amit Majmudar's novel of four lives displaced by the dividing of India 2011-06-22T19:06:04Z

It’s an emotional scene that captures what made “The Americans” such a poignant and mesmerizing show. The 10 best TV episodes of 2018, from ‘Atlanta’ to ‘This Is Us’ 2018-12-04T05:00:00Z

As she droned on, she didn’t sound scary so much as a little sad, and her stories were poignant. Walking and talking in Nova Scotia, a small province with sweeping vistas and welcoming locals 2016-02-05T05:00:00Z

She then launched into best-friend anthem “Army,” its “When I’m with you, I’m standing with an army” chorus especially poignant a day after the Orlando nightclub shooting. Ellie Goulding brings pop-star panache to Merriweather Post and still keeps it real 2016-06-14T04:00:00Z

Instead, the family goes to great lengths to stage a wedding ceremony that will allow everyone to gather and get one last moment with their oblivious matriarch, and the results are poignant and funny. Sundance 2019 Movies That Could Become Oscar Contenders 2019-02-01T05:00:00Z

At The New York Times’s Midtown Manhattan headquarters, to see a newsroom silenced during the busiest news cycle of our lifetime was both eerie and poignant. Out of Office: A Survey of Our New Work Lives 2020-08-20T04:00:00Z

And she is at her best in intimate passing moments, like the meltingly poignant line of recitative just before the storm: “What a cruel, cruel fate is mine.” Music Review: ?Barbiere di Siviglia? at the Met, With Isabel Leonard - Review 2011-10-02T21:26:40Z

Yet the poignant, almost despondent mood created by his visual choices and the raw vulnerability of his star, Elle Fanning, transform the pop energy of the soundtrack into a yearning cry to be heard. ‘Teen Spirit’ Review: Elle Fanning Can Sing. Who Knew? 2019-04-11T04:00:00Z

Both represent a last-gasp moment in the “industrial” revolution, which is why there’s something almost poignant about this show. Photography’s Delightful Obsessives 2022-07-28T04:00:00Z

“Wadjda” was hailed in the West as a sensitive, poignant story that highlighted the largely invisible lives of Saudi women. A Pioneering Saudi Director on Her New Film, ‘Mary Shelley’ 2018-05-23T04:00:00Z

"Both name choices are extremely poignant and dear to the Queen," a source told the Sun. Names of Queen Elizabeth's new dogs revealed: report 2021-03-23T04:00:00Z

Decades into the age of C.G.I., there’s a poignant quality to the sight of real sets, actual locations and hordes of human extras on the screen. ‘Gods of Egypt’ and ‘Alexander the Great’: Let Me Polish That Breastplate 2016-07-28T04:00:00Z

But “Small Town Wisconsin” is not sufficiently distinctive to rise above the standard-issue cinematic contemplation of the arguably poignant state of the white male American screw-up. ‘Small Town Wisconsin’ Review: A Father-Son Trip Goes Awry 2022-06-09T04:00:00Z

Another was Auschwitz-Birkenau, where artifacts of prisoners’ lives and signs of the efficiency of the murderous systems are preserved in poignant detail and on a horrifying scale. A solo traveler learns about the world — and herself — after nearly a year abroad 2016-05-12T04:00:00Z

And lest the poignant, nearly wordless exchange make you wonder whether true love and fresh dragon eggs have softened Daemon, a few minutes later we see him slice a man’s head in two. ‘House of the Dragon’ Season 1, Episode 8 Recap: Calamitous Ambition 2022-10-09T04:00:00Z

Held captive in an elaborate wedding dress and veil that seemed to be disintegrating into dust before our eyes, Bonham Carter brought a wry, offhand dottiness to the role; funny and poignant and strangely beautiful. At TIFF: 'Hyde Park,' 'Great Expectations,' Dame Maggie 2012-09-10T22:30:14Z

His growing sophistication as a composer was revealed in the progress of his pieces from poignant miniatures to grand designs between 1970 and the 90s. Bill Dixon obituary 2010-07-22T17:15:00Z

"That was something that was really poignant to me." The West can't keep up with the East in telling mainstream queer love stories in TV and movies 2023-10-01T04:00:00Z

The prizewinning poet crafts a poignant chronicle of his experiences as a gay black man from the South. 50 notable works of nonfiction in 2019 2019-11-19T05:00:00Z

Their conversation is brotherly and poignant, and leaves much unsaid. Review: In ‘Shot in the Dark,’ Two Things Are Unforgiving: Life and Basketball 2018-01-25T05:00:00Z

It’s moving and poignant, thoughtful and thought through, and makes Fabolous sound vulnerable: just the sort of song that makes for a long career outside of mixtapes. Critics? Choice: New CDs 2010-03-08T07:40:00Z

Do I think, if he had lived, he could have made it as poignant as he saw fit? Karen Green on life after suicide 2011-04-09T23:04:02Z

There’s a poignant moment in the film when Cunningham is asked if he has ever had a romantic relationship in his life. Op-Ed Columnist: Hunting Birds of Paradise 2011-04-06T19:39:26Z

The stories by survivors who were children in the 1930s are particularly poignant, told with an air of lingering disbelief that such horrors could happen in the 20th century. Ken Burns Explores America’s Inaction During the Holocaust 2022-09-01T04:00:00Z

Arquette's acceptance, one of the night's most poignant, spoke of family and mothers and children — so many other things besides acting that life itself began to take center stage. Golden Globes 2015: Sweet wins for audacious filmaking 2015-01-12T05:00:00Z

What it capitalizes on instead is that more poignant horror, the helpless isolation of the persecuted. In London, stages are set for pleasure

Barber’s poignant Adagio for Strings — music that is often performed at memorial gatherings — seemed an all too obvious choice for the moment. The Berlin Philharmonic Tests a Musical Path Out of Lockdown 2020-05-01T04:00:00Z

“World of Dance” proved a similarly poignant experience for Ms. Lopez. In Jennifer Lopez’s ‘World of Dance,’ the Dancers Are the Stars 2017-05-25T04:00:00Z

Even when DMX was the most popular rapper on the planet, he was a genre of one: a gruff, motivational, agitated and poignant fire-starter. DMX, a Profound Vessel for Pain 2021-04-09T04:00:00Z

Mr. Gibson is eloquent too about the “poignant rubbish” that floats to the surface in his fiction. Books of The Times: William Gibson?s ?Distrust That Particular Flavor? - Review 2012-01-01T20:27:07Z

“You look back on it and say, ‘So this is what your life was,’ and that’s a great feeling, but kind of a poignant feeling, as well.” Susan Feldman and St. Ann’s Warehouse Unveil a Permanent Home 2015-10-04T04:00:00Z

The emotional content of the album — his struggles with depression and anxiety — would be poignant even without knowing his fate. Mac Miller and Jon Brion Had a Vision. It Almost Came True. 2020-01-20T05:00:00Z

Instead, rendered as a special effect, the character’s end becomes merely poignant—not terrifying or repulsive—making for a very tasteful death. The Beauty of Sam Mendes’s “1917” Comes at a Cost 2020-01-07T05:00:00Z

But Isaac finally submits in music full of poignant resignation. Music Review: Chamber Music Society at Alice Tully Hall 2013-05-12T21:55:55Z

Distilled from a weeklong series of confessional, often poignant conversations, Lindsey’s life story merges a typically hard-luck childhood with an atypical work ethic. Movie Review: ?Better Than Something,? a Documentary About Jay Reatard 2012-03-02T01:38:40Z

A reminder of the persistence of these natural gifts has never felt so poignant. This Rosh Hashana Salad Is a Fresh Take on Ancient Flavors 2021-08-30T04:00:00Z

But most poignant are the women who remain invisible. The Teen-Age Brides of Georgia 2016-11-15T05:00:00Z

‘The Body of an American’ Dan O’Brien’s lyrical, untidy and ultimately poignant play, produced by Primary Stages and directed by Jo Bonney, is a ghost story and a true story. Theater Listings for Feb. 26-Mar. 3 2016-02-25T05:00:00Z

That sad and poignant fact launched the series from the features pages, rather than the book ­pages alone, which helped from a coldblooded promotional point of view. ‘The Girl in the Spider’s Web’ by David Lagercrantz 2015-09-01T04:00:00Z

“In Mr. Aaron’s adroitly edited version, Inman’s diary is a fascinating document, by turns bizarre and illuminating, poignant and obscene,” the psychologist Michael Vincent Miller wrote in The New York Times Book Review. Daniel Aaron, Critic and Historian Who Pioneered American Studies, Dies at 103 2016-05-03T04:00:00Z

Densely thoughtful, “Prism” has beautiful and poignant moments. ‘Prism’ Review: Taking a Clear View of Bias in Moviemaking 2021-10-07T04:00:00Z

But this particular sculpture of Gandhi holding a toilet plunger is poignant, Mr. Dutta said. The Many Faces of Gandhi 2019-10-10T04:00:00Z

The Lennon Wall remains a colorful, nostalgic, and poignant place to visit. Quirky European sights, from Lennon ‘love wall’ to salt mines 2015-03-17T04:00:00Z

"It's quite a poignant record. There's thread of sadness that runs through it." Malians who sang out against conflict get Songlines honors 2014-04-24T00:06:43Z

Carter is probably best known for his poignant song “Anything Made of Paper,” which played over the credits of the much-heralded 2012 documentary about the West Memphis Three,  “West of Memphis.” Kitsap songwriting legend Bill Carter | Concert preview 2014-07-30T04:00:00Z

Providing the Grinch a poignant back story creates its own quandary. ‘Dr. Seuss’ The Grinch’ Review: Pointy-Headed and Pointless 2018-11-07T05:00:00Z

The display is a poignant riff on the custom of using flowers to mourn the dead, further charged by the knowledge that the flowers are already in the process of dying. Covid Memorials Offer a Place to Put Our Grief 2022-05-05T04:00:00Z

Adrian Grove cuts a poignant, hapless figure as the ostracised Donald, who is inevitably obliged to amuse the others with duck impressions on demand. Blue Remembered Hills - review 2013-05-02T14:05:36Z

The Pulitzer board described “Fat Ham” as “a funny, poignant play that deftly transposes ‘Hamlet’ to a family barbecue in the American South to grapple with questions of identity, kinship, responsibility and honesty.” ‘Fat Ham,’ a Pulitzer-Winning Riff on ‘Hamlet,’ Is Broadway-Bound 2022-12-05T05:00:00Z

In the poignant words of one Polish radio transmission sent just after the fall of Warsaw: "Absolutely everyone has lost absolutely everything." The Spy Who Loved: The Secrets and Lives of Christine Granville by Clare Mulley – review 2012-08-03T21:55:03Z

New York Times critic Alessandra Stanley wrote on Friday, "These four women are amusing, at times poignant, but not easily likeable. The show is caustic and hard to watch, but harder to turn off." 'Girls' go wayward in HBO's tale of a gender and a generation 2014-01-11T01:03:01Z

But its lyrics, in Spanish, are pointed and poignant: I.C.E. stands for Immigration and Customs Enforcement, and the song tells stories about hard-working immigrants living in fear of deportation. Playlist: CDs From Deerhunter, Patty Griffin and Bobby McFerrin 2013-05-17T22:50:01Z

Partly this is because she has the most poignant story: She is dying of cancer and has decided to make use of Washington State’s Death With Dignity Act. ‘Deep Blue Sound’ Review: Searching for Orcas and Longing for Community 2023-06-09T04:00:00Z

The New York Times critic Ben Brantley wrote in his review that it is “harshly funny” and “surprisingly poignant.” John Leguizamo’s ‘Latin History for Morons’ Heads to Broadway 2017-08-23T04:00:00Z

Its somber variations unfolded here with a poignant gravitas, an intensity that contrasted vividly with the musicians’ deft rendering of the more lighthearted qualities of the concluding movement. Review: Emerson String Quartet Plays Beethoven, Mozart and Fauré 2015-08-04T04:00:00Z

By the third Glinka song, the poignant “Say Not That It Grieves the Heart,” he seemed considerably freer, singing with warmth and dusky shadings. Review: Dmitri Hvorostovsky Sings of Life, Love and Sadness at Carnegie Hall 2016-02-18T05:00:00Z

The most poignant image was of the resuscitation team waiting for a patient who never arrived. TV review: Evidently John Cooper Clarke; 24 Hours in A&E 2012-05-30T22:00:02Z

Yet I found the National Gallery’s show poignant, not only in the traces of memories on her most successful sculptures — but in aggregate, as a model of unshaken artistic commitment over half a lifetime. Ghosts of the Past, Embalmed in White Plaster 2018-10-04T04:00:00Z

Their yearning for social and economic mobility is poignant, but also leads at times to cruelty, corruption and apathy. Short Story Collections for an Ever-Changing World 2021-03-09T05:00:00Z

What renders these images so poignant is their sense of impermanence. Between Birth and Death, Some Dancing and a Little Mystery 2017-08-21T04:00:00Z

Season two revealed much about Poussey's character, and Wiley’s poignant portrayal of the young inmate’s fidelity towards her prison family, masked at times by her chin-raised bravado, drove the series forward. Orange is the New Black's Samira Wiley: 'Prison is not a funny place' 2014-06-23T04:00:00Z

After the downbeat Lost and Found, an incantation of drowning and rebirth over a poignant piano riff, Mason references a Frankie Boyle gag about Margaret Thatcher. Steve Mason – review 2013-04-12T16:42:19Z

He lards this book with keen, bittersweet observations about the publishing world, details that become a big, poignant part of its appeal. Books of The Times: ‘The Accident,’ a New Novel by Chris Pavone of ‘The Expats’ 2014-03-05T21:59:09Z

The hug exchanged between Lear and Amos at Wednesday’s curtain call therefore seemed poignant — maybe just a Hollywood hug, maybe something more significant all these years later. Review | ABC’s live ‘Good Times’ and ‘All in the Family’ try again to rekindle the magic of yesterday’s sitcoms 2019-12-19T05:00:00Z

They conclude by calmly walking together upstage and, perhaps, into the unknown — not an original ending, but poignant nonetheless. Dance goes digital in an impressive Barak Ballet premiere 2017-06-25T04:00:00Z

This propulsive and creepy thriller from the writer-director Eduardo Rodriguez is more than just a monster movie — it’s a poignant exploration of the limits of compassion and what it means to parent through trauma. Five Horror Movies to Stream Now 2022-01-07T05:00:00Z

“These frank and poignant oral histories of many of the nation’s musical icons give us unique insights into them as artists, entertainers and human beings,” the librarian of Congress, James H. Billington, said. ArtsBeat: The Musicians' Words: Interviews With Stars Donated to Library of Congress 2012-06-18T15:21:03Z

Since that time is rapidly approaching, the company’s performances at the Brooklyn Academy of Music are poignant occasions. The Week Ahead: Dec. 4 ? Dec. 10 2011-12-02T19:02:33Z

These are all the more poignant because she would not appear on camera; we only hear her reading her responses to questions. ?Her Name Was Steven? on CNN Presents 2010-03-13T00:45:00Z

The featurette’s angle is a strong one and connects with fans of the original trilogy in an incredibly poignant way. Comic-Con: Why the Force was with Star Wars and not Batman v Superman 2015-07-13T04:00:00Z

It’s an attachment that grew alongside the films’ most poignant, Howard Shore score-backed moments: “Don’t you know your Sam?” How ‘Lord of the Rings’ Became ‘Star Wars’ for Millennial Women 2021-12-19T05:00:00Z

Supporting characters who have spent more time considering their own sexual and gender identities inspire and intimidate our heroine, who jumps into a pool to contemplate her weariness underwater, where it is more poignant. Review: ‘Mrs. Fletcher’ Tracks an Empty-Nester’s Sexual Awakening 2019-10-24T04:00:00Z

The collection also features a leather-bound book of presidential inaugural addresses containing a poignant message written by Mrs. Kennedy to Powers. JFK memorabilia draws hundreds to Mass. town 2013-02-14T12:42:13Z

The story is brought to life with illustrations that are vivid and often poignant. Body Language in Middle Grade Lit 2021-07-08T04:00:00Z

Was Luke’s triumphant and poignant last hurrah your personal highlight? Star Wars: The Last Jedi: the Force, the Porgs and the future - discuss with spoilers 2017-12-16T05:00:00Z

This exciting, poignant book enthralled even me, whose school years were spent in ancient times. The best audiobooks for your summer drive, sorted by length — and who’s in the car 2021-05-26T04:00:00Z

On Etre there are found sounds – taps, drips, a baby's cries – that in this context are eerily poignant. New band of the day ? No 955: Nicolas Jaar 2011-03-31T16:51:35Z

In context, a simple shape can be powerful and even poignant. In the galleries: The fleeting beauty of birds, making their final flights 2018-06-20T04:00:00Z

That is one of the most poignant, resonant lines ever uttered on the subject. Perspective | Carolyn Hax: Should you break up with a boyfriend you care about but don’t love? 2021-08-03T04:00:00Z

Deftly poignant and meaningful, as close to perfection as possible. Bicep's favourite tracks 2013-03-29T18:00:00Z

Or in a long ceremony during which the cast hands flowers to the audience at the end of a section about Breonna Taylor, played by Fulton; but Fulton’s performance is poignant enough on its own. Review: In ‘Plays for the Plague Year,’ the Soundtrack of Our Lives 2023-04-18T04:00:00Z

There’s also the fact that Mitzi herself is a performer, a musician and dancer, and that part of her personality is very important and poignant in the film. Steven Spielberg Gets Personal 2022-11-09T05:00:00Z

But her delivery is so full of raw emotion that it breaks the film open and sets a poignant tone for this coming-of-age story from the director Isabel Castro. ‘Mija’ Review: Hitting the Notes 2022-08-04T04:00:00Z

A nomination — or eight — isn’t necessary for any real music fan to realize how outstanding, soulful and poignant Lennox’s debut album is. AP’s top albums of 2019: Ari Lennox, Summer Walker, Anitta 2019-12-06T05:00:00Z

On a small stage in the Times Square nightclub 54 Below last week, Green even grabbed the microphone and sang one of her own songs, the funny and poignant "Ready to Settle." Meet writer Amanda Green, who 'breathes' Broadway 2013-05-29T11:53:11Z

It happened in November and was one of the more poignant images to emerge from the moment in which a caravan of Central American migrants was landing at the U.S.-Mexico border in Tijuana. Auctions, protests and controversial patrons: the three big ways art and money clashed in 2018 2018-12-20T05:00:00Z

This exuberant, welcoming look at the hundreds of animals that share the planet with humans is both poignant and lighthearted, thanks to Wenzel’s bright, big-eyed depictions of creatures furry, feathered and fanged. Best children’s books of 2018 2018-11-14T05:00:00Z

The scenes between Sandra and her father are expectedly poignant, true. ‘One Fine Morning’ Review: The Moments That Make Up a Rich Life 2022-12-08T05:00:00Z

The best, most poignant parts of “What Happened” reveal the Hillary Clinton that her inner circle has assured us was lurking beneath the surface all along: A woman who’s arch but sensitive. Hillary Clinton Opens Up About ‘What Happened,’ With Candor, Defiance and Dark Humor 2017-09-12T04:00:00Z

Rosheuvel once again gives us a statuesque, confident Queen who can be witty in one moment and poignant in the next. She is very brown: "Queen Charlotte" explains how the integrated ton was won, but what is left out? 2023-05-06T04:00:00Z

Your “paintings” vary from completely surreal, in songs like “Balloon Man,” to the sort of heartbreakingly poignant, if still somewhat surreal, is that something that comes naturally to you? Love Story: A Q&A with Singer-Songwriter Robyn Hitchcock 2013-03-05T20:02:08Z

That film's premiere at the Berlin film festival in 1997 descended into farce when its hero's supposedly poignant death in a ballooning accident was greeted with cheers and laughter. Lévy's Libya: a philosopher's phone call to arms against Gaddafi 2012-05-25T15:00:05Z

But that only makes Tracker’s concealed tenderness more poignant. Review | ‘Black Leopard, Red Wolf’ is the fantasy epic everyone will be talking about 2019-01-25T05:00:00Z

Mr. Nicholls mines the setup for laughs, as he should, but he also provides a poignant story of regret in middle age. Books by David Nicholls and Edward St. Aubyn 2014-10-29T04:00:00Z

That traps a few of the recently deceased, although some of them are very poignant. A Victorian murderer, robots and a waiting room for heaven 2011-03-01T01:49:38Z

I was moved by the unexpected blend of elements both gentle and poignant. At Arles Festival, 7 Promising Photographers to Watch 2018-07-19T04:00:00Z

This structurally simple work, in which performers cross the stage while enacting specific actions, emphasizes, in the end, the power of movement in humorous and poignant ways. 7 Dance Performances to See in NYC This Weekend 2018-02-22T05:00:00Z

In Moscow, a young woman named Olia Lialina created “My Boyfriend Came Back From the War,” a forking narrative, poignant and oblique, that combined text with grainy black-and-white imagery. The Mission to Save Vanishing Internet Art 2016-10-21T04:00:00Z

There's never a false note, either, only poignant and surprising ones that linger long after the last page. In novel 'The Right-Hand Shore,' past is a burden 2012-04-30T17:11:11Z

And many of the most poignant found their source in Ms. VanDerBeek’s childhood home in Baltimore, now up for sale. Putting Memories to New Use 2010-09-19T04:36:00Z

It’s a brilliantly revealing and poignant scene in Saturday’s episode. ‘In the Flesh’: a zombie drama with heart and brains 2014-05-08T20:36:33Z

“I think it’s more poignant to have a woman,” Ms. LuPone said, “because we get asked that question, ‘When are you going to get married? Put Down Your Phone! It’s Patti LuPone. 2021-12-11T05:00:00Z

But when it came out, it was critically acclaimed and saluted by the passengers’ loved ones for its verisimilitude and poignant “let’s roll” ending. The Twin Towers After September 11: A Tribute or a Painful Reminder? 2019-09-10T04:00:00Z

There is a wistful moment — one of many in your film — where Lucia recounts Harris' life in a short but poignant speech. In "Raymond & Ray," adult sons must bury their well-liked dad who was "inarguably a monster" to them 2022-10-21T04:00:00Z

To hear a superb rising artist in the role, 24 hours after hearing Ms. Graham limn the stages of a woman’s life, was a poignant juxtaposition, but also a lovely one. Review: From a Veteran Singer to a Newcomer, a Note of Welcome 2020-02-06T05:00:00Z

It is absolutely worth seeing, however, both for fans of gorgeous animation and for people who enjoy powerful, poignant and joyously fun superhero flicks. You should see "Into the Spider-verse" 2019-06-28T04:00:00Z

She'll perform her poignant hit "The House That Built Me" before the largest audience of her career. Miranda Lambert no longer just a face in the crowd 2011-02-09T11:56:08Z

It revolves around a poignant, heartrending story that's also par for the course in tales like these. A less sexy "Sanditon" doesn't evolve the plot, but so what? That's not why people watch 2022-03-20T04:00:00Z

This is one of those Wilder classics in which he hits the sweet spot — finds that difficult, poignant balance of humor and heart. 5 funniest workplace movies 2011-07-08T22:27:03Z

It was a poignant and deeply moving moment, and yet another reminder of the potency of the themes in his works, where compassion rings loudest of all. Review | Ronald K. Brown/Evidence rises to a spiritual level in performance at the Kennedy Center 2021-10-22T04:00:00Z

There's plenty that both kids and their parents will find genuinely amusing with an underlying story that is classically conceived and authentically poignant. 'Tangled': Disney's twist on Rapunzel is tressed for success 2010-11-23T21:57:00Z

Gently funny and disarmingly poignant, “Together Together” is unusually attuned to the isolation of single fathers. ‘Together Together’ Review: A Conceivable Plan 2021-04-22T04:00:00Z

It’s both savage and orderly, comic and bleak, poignant and exciting. Review: Mark Morris Dance Performs ‘Whelm’ and ‘Words’ at BAM 2015-04-23T04:00:00Z

“The Baptism” imagines something similar, but grants it to Black people; the most poignant part of the tribute is how it dares to think of Blackness as something transformative and eternal. Black Art and Poetry Elevate a Tribute to Civil Rights Leaders 2020-10-27T04:00:00Z

When young Kya looks back at Mabel through the window in the store's door, having just been treated kindly, it provides the film's only poignant moment. "Where the Crawdads Sing" is a stupefyingly bad adaptation of spoon-fed melodrama 2022-07-15T04:00:00Z

And poignant: You can’t help but consider which of these characters will be dead in 20 years. ‘The Boys in the Band’ and a Generational Divide 2018-08-02T04:00:00Z

Some are stupid, over-the-top jokes; others are supposed to be poignant moments. Dan Clowes’s “Wilson” 2017-03-16T04:00:00Z

The judging panel praised Kretser's book for bringing "large questions close-up and personal with her witty and poignant observations and her vivid language". Sri Lankan-born author Kretser wins top Australia literary prize 2013-06-19T16:16:23Z

So why is this story, now more than a century old, still so poignant and affecting? Why Is ‘Cyrano’ Still So Potent? Ask Anyone Who’s Loved at All. 2022-02-25T05:00:00Z

In a poignant statement on the restaurant’s website, Mr. Lorain said that the director of the Michelin guides told him that the inspectors found fault with some of his seasonings. Michelin Announces 2015 Rankings for France 2015-02-02T05:00:00Z

Were that not poignant enough, Fiddy is keen to stress that he is so poor that posting pictures of toy money is one of the significant means by which he generates real money. Kanye and 50 Cent go for broke 2016-03-11T05:00:00Z

When Murray Head’s Judas chokes out the same line, in his own anguished version of that song — Lloyd Webber, ever the skillful deployer of the poignant reprise — you believe him, too. Why ‘Jesus Christ Superstar’ the Album Has Always Rocked 2021-10-12T04:00:00Z

“For Girl Band to scream the words ‘chicken fillet roll’ over and over again — it’s so poignant,” he said. Irish Band Channels the Spirit of Punk, and James Joyce 2019-07-31T04:00:00Z

Humorous and poignant, it seems ripe to be developed into a longer piece. Dance Review: Sampling New Work One Step at a Time 2011-04-13T00:19:47Z

However good the actors, Derby's horror show of a back story, like the sheriff's more prosaically poignant one, registers only as writerly concoction. Quirky 'Cut Bank' spins into a dark spiral toward nothing 2015-04-02T04:00:00Z

What I found poignant, is that neither space is interested in addressing intimacy. "The Inspection" and Don't Ask Don't Tell for a queer Black man: "Boot camp is brainwashing" 2022-11-18T05:00:00Z

This remarkable film is poignant, charming and illuminating in delightfully grown-up ways. 'While We're Young' illuminates in delightfully grown-up ways 2015-04-01T04:00:00Z

Although true to Paton’s plot, on stage this seemed less a poignant image of racial reconciliation and more another example of a white man assuming power in a relationship with a black one. Lost stars on stage for Washington National Opera 2016-02-13T05:00:00Z

It is all the more surprising that on the occasions they sing together, their voices flow into a single powerful, poignant stream. Review: ‘War Paint’ Recalls Two Cosmetics Titans 2016-07-19T04:00:00Z

The good news is that he weaves his three protagonists’ deceptively discrete trajectories together, creating a triptych of poignant and at times haunting stories. Review | Three tragic characters are mysteriously linked in ‘From a Low and Quiet Sea’ 2018-07-16T04:00:00Z

“The Far Field” is most poignant when it exposes the unintentional havoc of good intentions. Review | A daughter searches for her mother’s secrets in Kashmir but finds only more questions 2019-01-07T05:00:00Z

His need to valorize a fellow gay man who triumphed over the vicious bigotry that claimed so many lives is a universal yearning — and a poignant one. In 'I Am My Own Wife,' a character to remember 2012-02-09T22:08:03Z

Though dedicated to the memory of Jim Blanc, a dancer with the troupe, the poignant, meditative journey for four men, which ends with a grave bow, also seemed in tribute to Mr. Wolken. Dance Review: New Pilobolus Dances, Already Full of Memories 2010-07-13T22:45:00Z

Simin Behbahani, a prizewinning poet known as “the lioness of Iran” for deftly combining classical Persian verse forms, poignant emotion and courageous social protest, died on Tuesday in Tehran. Simin Behbahani, Outspoken Iranian Poet, Dies at 87 2014-08-21T04:00:00Z

It's not clear whether they will leave out the vocals, delivering a poignant statement on Curtis's absence, or if guest singers will, er, just do Curtis impersonations. Peter Hook to cover Joy Division album in full 2010-04-06T10:30:00Z

Suzu is a poignant, sympathetic figure but there’s a welcome edge to her, a bit of stubborn prickliness that’s expressed through the animation, the character’s churning emotions and Nakamura’s sensitive, expansive vocal performance. ‘Belle’ Review: Soaring and Singing Over the Online Rainbow 2022-01-13T05:00:00Z

An Audience for Free Spirits in a Closed Society THE Czech New Wave is perhaps best known for wry, poignant tales like Milos Forman’s “Loves of a Blonde” and Jiri Menzel’s “Closely Watched Trains.” ‘Daisies,’ From the Czech Director Vera Chytilova, at BAM 2012-06-29T22:03:01Z

In a poignant effort to improve her spirits her dad offers to buy her anything she wants. Critic?s Notebook: Advancing a New Form of Comedy: Storytelling 2012-04-04T22:52:28Z

“It’s a very poignant story,” Mr. Lorre said. Television: In Bear Times, a Bull Market for Sitcoms 2010-04-17T21:50:00Z

That was part of a poignant tribute honoring four Jazz Masters who died last year - Jones, Lincoln, saxophonist James Moody, and pianist and educator Billy Taylor. Marsalis Family among 2011 NEA Jazz Masters 2011-01-12T10:16:03Z

Lurking beneath, though, is a poignant study of oldster unease — with technology, with sexual explicitness, and perhaps most of all with money. Review: ‘Why Him?’ Better Yet, Why This Movie? 2016-12-22T05:00:00Z

Never mind how poignant it was to see a photo of Robert Henry Lawrence Jr., who was America's first black astronaut, actually shown in the movie. Author of Neil Armstrong biography "First Man": He understood "the place of humankind in the cosmos" 2018-12-25T05:00:00Z

An alternative title for this unintentionally poignant book might have been, “You Used to Really Like Me, Remember?” Chris Christie’s Memoir Praises Trump, but Says, ‘I Told You So’ 2019-01-28T05:00:00Z

The most poignant appeal of this movie is the feeling it creates of being welcomed into a family that radiates all things bright and good. ‘The Fabulous Filipino Brothers’ Review: For Better or for Worse 2022-02-09T05:00:00Z

Ms. Mearns relishes hers, tossing off vertiginous turns, while Mr. Garcia, a revelation here, seems more troubled and introspective, allowing himself a poignant vulnerability. Review: A New Justin Peck Ballet Feels Like an Exhale 2020-02-27T05:00:00Z

In a bit of poignant foreshadowing, he shared some thoughts about heaven: “I heard the place is overrated,” he wrote, “cloudy.” David Crosby, a King of Twitter 2023-01-20T05:00:00Z

The moment was made all the more poignant by Dobby's promise to never try to save Harry's life again, as we all know how that sadly turned out. 10 of the Most Heartwarming Harry Potter Moments of All Time 2017-07-31T04:00:00Z

But Ferran's sudden flight of fancy with Audrey — no spoiler here, sorry — is simply a dazzling stretch of immersive cinema, a swooping, even poignant celebration of the feeling of escape and discovery. 'Bird People' an eccentric delight 2014-09-25T04:00:00Z

Jacobson is a comic novelist, but The Finkler Question is about grief and loss, and it prompts a poignant range of response. Booker prize 2010: Notes from the ceremony 2010-10-13T12:34:00Z

Archival photos of handsome young men, their arms flung around one another like victorious soldiers on the front lines of a cultural revolution, are inescapably poignant. | 'We Were Here': ?We Were Here,? a Documentary About AIDS in San Francisco - Review 2011-09-08T23:58:13Z

It's cleverly conceived, designed and with a strong, surprisingly poignant story at its heart. Sally Gardner's top 10 books for children with dyslexia 2012-10-10T10:17:05Z

It was both exciting and poignant to see the name of a new artistic director proudly emblazoned across the top of the program. Review | Bach Consort celebrates new year, new leader 2018-09-17T04:00:00Z

Thomas’s return to Tanglewood, where he led two programs with the Boston Symphony Orchestra over the weekend, was especially poignant. A Star Maestro, Fighting Brain Cancer, Finds Peace in Music 2022-08-30T04:00:00Z

Greenberg is a nightmare—a self-obsessed mansplainer who is embarrassingly entitled, and whose self-awareness is flickering at best—but his vulnerability is recognizable, even poignant. The Enjoyable Discomfort of Noah Baumbach’s “Greenberg” 2019-11-15T05:00:00Z

The music-video veteran Julian Temple directed it, and he worked with a poignant tinge of bloat. Tom Petty, Classic Rocker? Sure. And Weird Video Star, Too. 2017-10-10T04:00:00Z

But I’ve always found Tarantino’s flights of romanticized revisionism more perplexing than meaningful or poignant, and his fetishes — from women’s feet to climactic bloodbaths — stopped being cute a long time ago. Sorry, best picture front-runners: She’s just not that into you. 2020-02-06T05:00:00Z

Neither did a follow-up album, “Radio City,” released in 1974, which embraced the influences of bands like the Beatles and the Beach Boys and added poignant pop tunes like “September Gurls” to Mr. Chilton’s catalog. Alex Chilton, Influential Rock Singer, Dies at 59 2010-03-19T04:41:00Z

In the late 1980s, King had some success with his play "The Night Hank Williams Died," a pungent yet poignant tale of lost loves, missed opportunities, unfulfilled expectations and fatal mistakes that made it off-Broadway. Author, 'Whorehouse' playwright Larry L. King dies 2012-12-21T19:00:14Z

This show is a poignant coda to the gallery’s rich history; once it closes, Ms. Langdale plans to work privately at this address. Sheila Hicks, a Weaver Flirting With Installation Art 2015-11-26T05:00:00Z

Sam's journey is a poignant one, but steering it into whatever dock Marvel built for it was bound to shortchange the development and service of other themes. If only "The Falcon and the Winter Soldier" had the guts and time to "get weird" enough for TV 2021-04-24T04:00:00Z

There’s a poignant perspective from the ants in the experimental ant-farm. 'The Simpsons': Your Must-Watch Episodes 2014-08-21T04:00:00Z

As remnants of an era when women were home cooks and chefs were men, they’re a poignant juxtaposition next to the images of strong female chefs and busi­ness­women. Here’s what female chefs look like, in the eyes of artists 2015-10-05T04:00:00Z

Her efforts are poignant, and even though she doesn’t succeed, she manages something far greater. Marisa Silver's 'Little Nothing' is fierce, mysterious fairy tale 2016-09-08T04:00:00Z

Yet the quiet story remains engrossing, by turns gently humorous and pathetic, mundane and poignant. Portrait of the Artist as a Complete Jerk 2018-04-11T04:00:00Z

The poignant moments of Humperdinck’s luminous score, conducted with a light, sensitive touch by Andrew Davis, are even more affecting set against these stark surroundings. ‘Hansel and Gretel,’ a Family Holiday Treat at the Met 2014-12-19T05:00:00Z

It’s very poignant for me, it says something, that this is a man who bleeds as well. Todd Solondz: I’m Judd Apatow’s dark side 2012-06-06T00:00:00Z

Although the short clips of everyday life are almost disarmingly poignant, it was a quote projected onto the wall that made chills go up my spine. In Los Angeles, a new museum celebrates the art of moviemaking 2021-10-28T04:00:00Z

Jared Loftin is cuddly-adorable and poignant as Gary, an insecure, overweight Long Island teenager who dreams of becoming a renowned magician but is having trouble even being allowed to enter the school’s talent show. ArtsBeat: New York Musical Theater Festival Report: ‘Gary Goldfarb, Master Escapist’ 2013-07-22T21:15:19Z

But I see this as much more poignant or pathetic, with a lot of paranoia and mistrust.” Carpetbagger Blog: Canada and Mexico Aim for an Oscar Nomination Repeat 2011-12-14T18:14:55Z

Like their mother, they assume new roles as chroniclers of their own ordeal, at times providing some of the movie’s most charming, poignant sights and sounds. ‘Midnight Traveler’ Review: A Refugee Family’s Search for Safe Harbor 2019-09-17T04:00:00Z

There is enchantment here anyway, and a poignant longing to grab back squandered time. Review: ‘The Pavilion,’ a Class Reunion Drama, at Barrow Group Theater 2015-06-16T04:00:00Z

This is a book of truths, witty insights and metaphors, and — for the first time — Kelly’s own illustrations, which are lightheartedly poignant. Erin Entrada Kelly Draws (Literally) From Her Life in a New Illustrated Middle Grade Series 2021-06-08T04:00:00Z

Streisand spokesman Ken Sunshine said that performing near her old neighborhood will be very emotional and poignant for Streisand. Favorite daughter Streisand plans Brooklyn concert 2012-05-09T17:16:04Z

This poignant novel is narrated by Todd Aaron, a 50-something man with autism who listens to Barry Manilow and works as a tour guide at the facility he’s lived in for decades. Notable fiction books of 2015 2015-11-18T05:00:00Z

It's the opera lovers' opera, one that combines wonderful music with a psychologically thrilling, poignant drama. The Met's Don Carlo: Verdi's Masterpiece, for Everyone 2010-12-10T21:50:00Z

However, that would be missing the point -- here hilarious, there poignant -- of this remarkably original play. Family dynamics, askew and at times absurd, in 'Sons of the Prophet' 2015-02-12T05:00:00Z

Here are five objects I found poignant; five things touched by someone long ago, seeming to retain just a bit of that person’s being — five tiny worlds. 5 things to see at MOHAI: everyday objects with stories to tell 2021-07-08T04:00:00Z

He often played villains, and was frequently in supporting roles, which made his casting in “King Charles III,” particularly poignant. Tim Pigott-Smith, Actor Who Put Prince Charles on the Throne, Dies at 70 2017-04-08T04:00:00Z

In the midst of this digital dystopia, relatively fragile tracks such as “Living With You” and “Mary” feel even more poignant. Album review: John Cale, 'Shifty Adventures in Nookie Wood' 2012-10-02T17:48:00Z

Every single one was both clever and poignant. | The Frieze Art Fair: Salvage Instinct 2010-10-15T20:02:00Z

Though so far it has only had a limited awards qualifying run in theaters, this unsparingly poignant film warrants major attention. Animation That’s More Than Kids’ Stuff 2022-01-13T05:00:00Z

Her poignant rendition of "Nights in White Satin" was inspired by a long- troubled relationship with her daughter, which LaVette says is getting better. Bettye LaVette, Karrin Allyson coming to Jazz Alley 2010-07-09T21:54:00Z

Gdansk’s Museum of the Second World War opened in 2017, providing a poignant look at the war’s impact on Poland. What’s new in Eastern Europe for 2019 2019-01-30T05:00:00Z

For my money it's the most poignant piece of music on Back to Black. F&M playlist 2011-07-28T21:50:01Z

McNally would compose in many other keys over the years, the poignant notes of 1987’s “Frankie and Johnny,” in particular, revealing a gift for a tone as removed from the operatic as one could imagine. Perspective | With Terrence McNally’s death, the theater has lost a voice of consummate wit and passion 2020-03-25T04:00:00Z

She added a poignant touch of publicity to her movie’s chances when she died this Feb. 23, in the final week of Oscar voting. How to Win Big in the “Little” Categories at the Oscars 2014-02-28T16:48:58Z

Not a word is spoken, but the moral is poignant: A way of life has been cruelly taken away. The Composer Frederic Rzewski: In His Notes, Protest and Politics 2016-05-05T04:00:00Z

And the scene is even more poignant and prescient given last week’s fatal shooting in Charlotte, and the ensuing attempt by the police to conceal video of the violent episode. ‘Designated Survivor’ Season 1, Episode 2: Day One 2016-09-28T04:00:00Z

But that unbridled joy makes the song even more poignant than his more straightforwardly sad material; he sounds so teeming with life he wouldn’t get a chance to live. A Bittersweet Juice WRLD Team-Up, and 13 More New Songs 2020-12-04T05:00:00Z

Right now, she added, “that feels particularly poignant.” Children’s Film Festival Pushes Boundaries, Mixing Somber and Sweet 2021-03-03T05:00:00Z

“I thought it was very, very funny — at its heart it’s a comedy, but, as with a lot of the best comedy, there’s something poignant about it,” he added. David Javerbaum’s ‘An Act of God’ Adapts Tweets to Broadway 2015-04-30T04:00:00Z

And in one poignant and seemingly unplanned moment, Mr. Talley, now 68, tears up recalling the racially motivated slights that pockmarked his early career. Review: ‘The Gospel According to André’ Barely Scratches the Surface 2018-05-23T04:00:00Z

A birdlike burbling was heard during a poignant moment in the concert, seemingly part of the performance — until it became apparent it was not. 'Faust' bedeviled by phantom alarm, but carried by heavenly voices 2012-06-22T19:35:49Z

His chronicle of that experience is both poignant and scientifically important. Best memoirs of 2016 2016-11-16T05:00:00Z

It’s so poignant how a person can make themselves more conspicuous just trying to hide. Never show them your back 2012-11-24T01:00:00Z

“Rock & Roll President” is a potent and poignant reminder of how some things used to be and may never be again. ‘Jimmy Carter Rock & Roll President’ Review: A Musically Enlightened Commander in Chief 2020-09-10T04:00:00Z

This question drives the rest of the narrative to its poignant end. Perspective | Now that Hollywood is interested in Asian stories, here are other books that should be movies 2018-08-14T04:00:00Z

"Up," specifically its devastatingly poignant first 10 minutes 4. Try not to cry at this list of the saddest movies ever 2011-08-03T20:17:04Z

The flashback to Don helping Peggy after the surprise birth and adoption of her child – “it will shock you how much this never happened” – remains one of Mad Men’s most poignant scenes. The Sopranos to Blackadder – what are the definitive series of the best TV shows? 2018-01-17T05:00:00Z

As it happens, the movie is not just a brainy meditation on how communication affects cognition, but also a deeply poignant, heartfelt rumination on memory, connection and love. It’s all in the wording: ‘Arrival’ raises profile of linguists, making them almost cool. 2016-11-11T05:00:00Z

Poised and poignant, singing with easy agility and brightly floating tone, the soprano Jennifer Moore provided the evening’s greatest pleasures as Ninetta, a servant girl unjustly accused of stealing silver. Music in Review: Bronx Opera Offers Rossini’s ‘Gazza Ladra’ 2013-01-21T22:59:30Z

For all its bad meals, lumpy mattresses and cramped train seats, “Us” evolves into a poignant consideration of how a marriage ages, how parents mess up and what survives despite all those challenges. ‘Us’: A fractured family’s trip into parenthood’s regrets

“There’s Something About Molly,” a short by Sue Carpenter, is a poignant tribute to her beloved black Lab, who died four years before she made this film. A Film Festival on Four Legs (It’s Not What You Think) 2015-10-01T04:00:00Z

For me, the Carpenters' music stirs the most poignant memories of young love long gone. Family life 2011-01-15T00:05:55Z

The poignant three-minute distillation of how it feels to lose something precious stands as the peak moment on an album set in Southern California, Ocean’s home away from home since leaving New Orleans. Album review: Frank Ocean, 'Channel Orange' 2012-07-13T16:35:00Z

When the focus does shift back to our main character, it felt more poignant thanks to her hanging back for 20 or so minutes. 'Girls' Recap: In the Season Finale, Almost Everyone Leans In 2015-03-22T04:00:00Z

The IFC Center in Manhattan is showing those movies alongside “Marx Can Wait,” bringing the young man of the ’60s into poignant dialogue with his older self. ‘Marx Can Wait’ Review: A Director Digs Into His Brother’s Death 2022-07-14T04:00:00Z

One of the show’s most poignant images is a close-up of an electric organ, destroyed and abandoned in a church in New Orleans’s Ninth Ward, the African American neighborhood swamped by Hurricane Katrina. Review | In the galleries: ‘Time Capsule’ retrospective highlights jazz’s influence on Frank Stewart 2019-12-18T05:00:00Z

It's a performance of both subtlety and darkness, as director Joachim Trier leads him down an unpredictable and poignant path. AP critics pick the year's best movies 2012-12-14T21:29:02Z

The whole effect is very funny, but below the humor are poignant issues related to identity. SIS Productions sends up stereotypes, American dream 2010-04-05T21:59:00Z

There's something equally poignant about Amos giving life and dignity to these fictional women by fleshing out their personalities and portraying them as three-dimensional characters. Tori Amos' "Strange Little Girls" is a quietly triumphant covers collection that endures 20 years on 2021-09-19T04:00:00Z

But for now I am thinking of the poignant ending of “The Mirror and the Light,” the final book in the Cromwell trilogy. A Writer Who Stared Down Her Past, and the World’s, With Steely Resolve 2022-09-23T04:00:00Z

In the most poignant instance, a 14-year-old boy named Orvil Red Feather sneaks into the bedroom of his grandmother, Opal, and puts on traditional Indian clothes. Review | What does it mean to be Native American? A new novel offers a bracing answer. 2018-05-29T04:00:00Z

His chapter about addiction and suicide is smart, well-researched, and poignant. ‘Here We Are Now’: 20 years after Kurt Cobain’s death 2014-03-27T21:14:15Z

But at the very least, as Lewinsky points out in her recent candid, poignant Vanity Fair piece, for once the title is “The Clinton Affair.” The jagged hindsight of “The Clinton Affair”: 20 years later, it looks like a different story 2018-11-15T05:00:00Z

But the most poignant speech of the evening went to Michelle Williams, marking her Best Actress win for her work in “Fosse/Verdon” by voicing her support for abortion rights. Why the Golden Globes and host Ricky Gervais felt particularly pointless 2020-01-06T05:00:00Z

In the most poignant, she is sitting in a train compartment and looking off to the side, with an air of resignation and foreboding. Love and Loss Through the Photographer’s Lens 2023-06-29T04:00:00Z

Think of Bechdel, too, when you want to experience the buoyant, poignant directions that musical theater is taking. Review | ‘Fun Home’ is pure musical satisfaction 2017-04-20T04:00:00Z

Vincent Canby, writing in The Times, called the film “a poignant but happy reminder of the beauty and mystery of the life cycle.” What’s on TV Wednesday: World Lion Day and Kerri Walsh Jennings in Rio 2016-08-10T04:00:00Z

Recounted in poetic prose with context from pop-history and cultural commentary, MacLean’s picaresque adventures include poignant reunions and chance encounters with a colorful cast of characters ranging from intellectuals to proletarians, tycoons to destitute migrants. Three Books on the Enigma That Is Modern Russia 2020-01-17T05:00:00Z