This truism is underscored in the festival's most affecting show.
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But "Process" is most affecting when it is most bare.
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Some of her most affecting portraits are small in size.
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Krzysztof Wodiczko's "Veteran's Flame" is most affecting in this regard.
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But it's the second movement, an Adagio, that is most affecting.
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The right issues, and the ones most affecting voters, are clearly economic.
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The show's youngest artist, Ramiro Gomez, is also among the most affecting.
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Among the most affecting rereadings that Gornick chronicles is of Elizabeth Bowen.
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The doom and gloom makes it the most affecting horror film of 2018.
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As we celebrate his achievements, let us reflect on his most affecting quotes.
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Gore's personal experiences in Paris yield some of the movie's most affecting scenes.
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One of the most affecting pieces in the show drives this point home.
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The most affecting story in Crime + Punishment is not about cops at all.
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It brings to an end the most affecting scene in the entire film.
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At its most affecting, Solastalgia sounds like a tsunami happening in slow motion.
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Perhaps the most affecting part of Florence involves the way the game handles dialogue.
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Think of "Maria," one of the most affecting love songs written for the stage.
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And yet the most affecting moments of Death Stranding are its least rigidly authored.
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But I get the impression that those losses weren't the most affecting for John.
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It's Jurado and his guitar and some of his most affecting songwriting to date.
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The strength of her resolve made Missandei one of the most affecting performances to watch.
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Finally, there's the piano ballad "Close to You," the most affecting torch song of her career.
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Inevitably, the most affecting and haunting images are by those who have experience war first-hand.
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But the most affecting works see the world in a manner that is wholly Taylor's own.
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The most affecting subplot has Walter trying to reproduce his recently deceased wife's sweet potato pie.
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The most affecting moments concern his estranged CSNY bandmates, none of whom are currently speaking to him.
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Some of Ramírez Jonas's most affecting works in the exhibit are also some of the most discrete.
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These moments, rhapsodic and uncaptioned, are the most affecting, the production's dancers seamlessly incorporated into the action.
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It's the most affecting moment in the episode, revealing the shame women bear long after their procedure.
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One of the most affecting illustrations of our malign influence appears in the middle of Macfarlane's book.
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The most affecting element was the presentation of their child, a silent character (played by Noah Spagnola).
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As the hysteria over Fleabag season 2 proved, the most affecting depictions of love are often the messiest.
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For all our sleuthing, the absence of planning might ultimately have been the most affecting part of the weekend.
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But his most affecting character was a melancholy worker bee completely undone by a crank call from a colleague.
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In the production's most affecting performance, Mr. Wolff (of the film "Hereditary") embodies Jeremy with a luminous sensitivity throughout.
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Yet the most affecting parts of this documentary come with the realization that some things may never be found.
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One of The Act's most affecting choices is showing how Dee Dee's self-made trap ravages her own aging body.
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The most affecting scenes depict the big-eared pachyderm on a quest to rescue his mother after she's taken away.
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The most affecting return, though, is Sheryl Lee as Laura Palmer, whose death set the series's original story in motion.
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Pearl, directed by Oscar winner Patrick Osborne, is easily one of the most affecting Spotlight Stories to debut in recent years.
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But the film's most affecting character moments — the stuff with real heart — were the updates on little rivalries within the group.
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The essay here I found most affecting was by Emily Brothers, who wrote with courage and honesty about her personal challenges.
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Even when they're fabricated, the flashbacks in "Don't Ask, Don't Tell" are some of the most affecting scenes in the series.
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"That was not an isolated incident, but it was the most affecting," Ms. Gordon elaborated in a recent Vanity Fair article.
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Dany is forced to lock up two of her kid-burning dragons in the most affecting pet-related scene since Old Yeller.
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As I've written before about The Handmaid's Tale, the genre's most affecting stories have always been highly concentrated, discrete doses of horror.
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The first, "11383," is a brisk minor blues, with the swirling momentum typical of Coltrane's live performances and his most affecting records.
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Its most affecting moments come from Dr. Busker's sessions with David's fellow mutants, who are trapped in his "memory palace" with him.
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One of the most affecting moments concerned Recy Taylor, who was raped by a group of white men in Jim Crow-era Alabama.
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That scene was the most affecting in my time with the game, because it highlighted how misanthropic The Division's perspective on humanity is.
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His meticulous work for Kevin Kölsch and Dennis Widmyer's Hollywood nightmare Starry Eyes is easily one of his most affecting works to date.
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But undoubtedly the most affecting illustration of this was the footage of a mother pilot whale cradling the corpse of her dead calf.
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In this production's most affecting directorial touch, the chorus members are a downtrodden group of migrants or refugees, outcasts from the heavenly realm.
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His most affecting account, however, was a moment-by-moment chronicle of the effort to integrate Central High School in Little Rock, Ark.
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Among his most affecting projects is a series of black-and-white portraits he took of himself and his friends, each in delicate chiaroscuro.
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Some of her most affecting work focuses on animal rights and the mass slaughtering and processing that is part of the corporate meat industry.
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One of the most affecting songs on "Ye" is "Wouldn't Leave," in which Kanye suggests that his TMZ appearance put his marriage at risk.
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The most affecting that I've read recently is about Justin Martin, who has overcome cerebral palsy to become a thriving student at Kenyon College.
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But these interactions are most affecting not when the dancers hug but when they dance apart, in unison, sharing a connection across a distance.
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With Atlanta, he found a way to bring all his seemingly disparate interests crashing together to make some of the year's most affecting television.
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Superchunk: What a Time to Be Alive (Merge) Call the most affecting political album of our brutally politicized era the lament of the slack motherfucker.
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The role is a perfect match for Adams's combination of wisdom and innocence, and she gives one of the most affecting performances of the year.
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And "Strength of a Woman" — her first album since the underappreciated "London Sessions," in 2014 — is her most affecting and wounded album in several years.
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He said that the new EU forecasts will acknowledge the current economic slowdown that is most affecting Germany and Italy in the 19-country euro zone.
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"The Alien," the album's first single, is one of Hull's most affecting pieces of narrative storytelling, a story of a car crash in his imagined Lead.
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Mr. Rathburn finds his most affecting moments in those flashbacks, contrasting his character's optimistic, younger self with an older version full of bluster, confusion and regret.
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By far the most affecting of his novels is " Street of Thieves " (2012), a darkly winsome coming-of-age story set in contemporary Morocco and Spain.
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Some of the most awkward and most affecting moments involve Leonard's sexuality and Hap's protectiveness, in a time and place where gay slurs flow like water.
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The strongest—and most affecting—storyline has always been Jules's reactions to her rape, which occurred before the series began but which lingers throughout every episode.
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The most affecting installation appears upstairs, in what was once the women's gallery, which, when the synagogue fell into disrepair, became a home for stray animals.
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In one of the most affecting essays, Anna March writes about her hard-won battle to distance herself from her difficult mother, even after her mother's stroke.
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Some of the most affecting scenes take him into refugee camps with squalid living conditions; he shoots from the ground and in the air, with drone technology.
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The most affecting image: Castro opens his uniform and bares his chest, revealing that he is not wearing a bulletproof vest — a gesture of bravado and vulnerability.
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During a recent performance, he was the most affecting person onstage, with precise timing and a wonderful ability to switch — playfully, seamlessly — between male and female characters.
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The flood that destroys the Kims' apartment was by far the most affecting scene of the film to me, and I've barely read any commentary on it.
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By far the most affecting passage in "4 3 2 1" is a scene in which this version of Archie experiments, disastrously, with taking money for sex.
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One of the most affecting scenes early in the new season involves Nacho and his father, who disowned Nacho last season after being forced to harbor drug money.
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I think that's what the show touches on and will be most affecting: The fact that it has this backdrop of the #MeToo movement — it goes hand in hand.
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"The undoing of the urban fabric has advanced hand in hand with the undoing of the moral fabric," Al-Sabouni says in one of the book's most affecting passages.
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As Gaga plays the record's title track to her grandmother from an iPhone, legacy and heartbreak weigh heavy and it's easily the most affecting, humanizing part of the documentary.
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Most affecting was the exhibit "#1 in Civil Rights," which presents the case for Missouri being on the front lines of the war for black equality since the 1800s.
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In fact, one of the most affecting VR experiences comes during "Notget", which pulls you out of reality completely and puts you in some sort of black cyber abyss.
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Open your debut album with a nine-minute paean to bisexuality ("Like Me") and end it with one of the most affecting love ballads of the decade ("N Side").
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Instead the film's most affecting moments come from the credulous naivety of the young jihadists, struggling to carry out a doomed attempt to undermine the Saudi state by monstrous means.
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"Ring of Bright Water," Gavin Maxwell One of the greatest Scottish writers, probably the most affecting prose witness to the unique spirit of the Highland wilderness there has ever been.
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In perhaps the book's most affecting story, "Saying Goodbye to Yang," the strange calculus around reviving a broken beloved robot mixes home appliance repair with the health care industrial complex.
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The two share a bond that transcends language, and Tenzin's strange faithfulness to this out-of-his-depth foreigner is amongst the most affecting elements of Naughty Dog's continuing action franchise.
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Most affecting on Tuesday, opening night, was "Bury Me Standing," a celebration of Roma culture set to traditional Gypsy melodies and flamenco music by the singer-guitarist duo Lole y Manuel.
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This tragic, violent loss was the catalyst for Cunningham's new album The Weather Up There, a raw document of grief that's one of the most affecting jazz albums in recent memory.
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Mr. Blake has made some of his most affecting music with singers, especially over the past decade, and even his touch on the piano suggests an affinity for the human voice.
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Perhaps the most affecting is "Tomorrow Is Too Far," in which a young woman travels home to Nigeria to grapple with the details surrounding her brother's death, 18 years after his funeral.
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This trumpeter, composer and farsighted musical thinker has only ripened with age; at 77, he's making some of the most affecting music of his career, and he is as prolific as ever.
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In the most affecting essay in the collection, she details her sexual assault as a freshman in college, overcoming her impulse to play dead in order to testify at her rapist's trial.
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But watching it as I sat on the cusp of college myself, I found it to be the most affecting, realistic portrait of the transition to adulthood I'd ever seen in animation.
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These characters, sung by the endearing Talise Trevigne and the dynamic Sean Panikkar, are most affecting, though, in their modern-day incarnations, as a wistful hotel maid and a stalwart secret service agent.
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Mike nabs Werner and then, in one of the season's most affecting scenes, volunteers to kill him once Gus Fring makes clear that Mr. Ziegler is kaput, as they say in the Fatherland.
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"Late Returns," one of the most affecting stories in the collection, is a moving and thoughtful exploration of grief, among other things, that would be even better with about 10 percent less exposition.
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It is Smith's most affecting novel in a decade, one that brings a piercing focus to her favorite theme: the struggle to weave disparate threads of experience into a coherent story of a self.
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We felt her death would be the most affecting for the audience, and it was really hard for us because she's terrific to work with, she's a terrific actress, and we like her personally.
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The most affecting politically tinged ad came from the NFL itself, whose spot centered on Corey Jones, the cousin of a retired NFL player, who was shot to death by a plainclothes police officer.
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They include a humorless working-class Communist painter (Emond); a one-eyed Trotskyite (Esper); a gay dilettante (Urie, in the show's most affecting performance) and a self-dramatizing analysand actress (a miscast Grace Gummer).
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While "If You Have to Be a Floor" is most affecting when standing in the center of the museum's reconstruction of the 18th-century ballroom at Gadsby's Tavern, it's a transporting experience from anywhere.
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Iestyn Davies and Sam Crane make an affecting turn in the split role of Farinelli (Davies is the voice, Crane the man), but perhaps most affecting is the radiant Melody Grove as Philip's queen, Isabella.
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The resourceful, sullen 15-year-old Lizzie (Isabela Moner; she and Byrne are the movie's most affecting performers) has been acting as a parent to her substantially younger siblings Lita and Juan, both behavioral handfuls.
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But just as 12 Years A Slave funneled the horror of plantation life through one specific perspective, Birth is most affecting when it's dealing with Turner specifically, instead of the parade of historical atrocity around him.
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Some of his most affecting tracks—from the Kaytranada-produced "Reflection" to "Therapeutic," off this summer's Community Service 2 mixtape—vibrate with skittering jabs and rest atop a wash of digital blips, juke drums and footwork beats.
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It is part of a larger group of displays and performances, "Utopian Voices Here and Now," showcasing explorations by young British-based artists around the issues most affecting them, like the body and gender, sexuality and race.
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But, by far, the most affecting works in the show are the two videos installed in a 10 by 10-foot room, Men Who Swallow Themselves in Mirrors (2017) and How We Tell Stories to Children (2015).
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The most affecting piece in the show is the video installation "Infinite Tabernacle" (2017), where several figural sculptures, including "BAM (Seated Warrior)" (2017), are shown being shot to pieces ("BAM" is displayed with part of an arm missing).
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The mystical and poignant folk harmonies of Fleet Foxes reach a stirring apex on "Fool's Errand," one of the best tracks on the band's latest album, "Crack-Up," and one of the most affecting in the group's catalog.
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His ever-expanding list of credits would mean nothing, he makes clear, without his work as a gay activist, and McKellen is at his most affecting charting the kind of personal growth for which you don't win trophies.
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So it is that the most affecting moments of "Play All" come when the author is joined by his wife and daughters, all keeping the old man company as he sifts through his many hours of boxed sets.
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"A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms"—named after the most affecting scene in the episode, and maybe one of the kindest moments in the entire series—was basically an expensive bottle episode set in the Stark's castle, Winterfell.
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The night's most affecting performance came from one of those nice guys: Sam Smith, who let the soul and gospel underpinnings of his new songs "Too Good at Goodbyes" and "Pray" infuse loneliness and longing with spiritual fervor.
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Perhaps one of the most affecting moments of animation in the 20th century is the way Simba's ears go flat and his eyes get wide as he sees the wildebeest stampede approaching in the moments before Mufasa is killed.
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The level of intensity experienced in modern ground combat in the first half of the 20th century was unrivaled, so unbelievable in its horror that it has since inspired some of the most affecting pieces of media ever made.
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One of the most affecting moments directly acknowledges Europe's ugly, not-so-distant history, briefly wondering what Mr. Patten's British grandfather — a World War II veteran who hated Germans — would think of his grandson's German wife and German passport.
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It called to mind perhaps the most affecting speech of his career, a May 2012 address to the Tragedy Assistance Program for Survivors (TAPS) Seminar in Arlington, Virginia, where he used his own life story to comfort grieving military families.
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One of the most affecting passages in the book describes Elshiva's efforts to keep in touch with them: Death stalked the city like a plague, and Elshiva's daughters felt the need to check every week that the old woman was okay.
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In some ways, Miriam is the true heroine of "Missing, Presumed," and her observations are among the most affecting in a novel that ends up being as much about loneliness and longing as it is about the solving of a crime.
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"The Great Leap" is at its most affecting when Wen Chang simply tells — or avoids telling — his own story, with a restrained wistfulness for chances lost that bring to mind the self-betraying monologists of Alan Bennett's "Talking Heads" series.
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Now she has deftly woven fact and fiction, history and memory, to create one of the most richly imagined portrayals of the Spanish Civil War to date, and one of the strongest and most affecting works in her long career.
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"There are two things about the voice that it's hard for humans to ignore: it's the most affecting instrument; it has the greatest power of any instrument to make us feel emotions so strong that we believe they're real and true," Kahana said.
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After one of her most affecting passages, Allen walked calmly back to her place in a circle, preparing to hear out Lawson, who gives the final and most harrowing disclosure of the piece, a tale of soured love, horror, and immitigable loss.
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The installation in its entirety is a giddy romp; I found the most affecting pieces to be a series of mixed-media drawings in a piece entitled "Big Book" that acts as an instructive and informative "Bible" of the Alien Sex Club.
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One of her most affecting subplots comes from Sim's sweet flirtation with Felicity, which forces the asexual Felicity to think about whether she is also aromantic, or whether she wants to make room in her life for an unconventional kind of romance.
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But it's still one of the most affecting, tautly constructed electronic albums to emerge from the millennial generation, one that shrouds the mundane rituals of city life in its own Big Mood: The feeling that things were more exciting before we got here.
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Some of her most affecting moments on the campaign trail have come when people have approached her on rope lines or during round-table discussions about their struggles caring for disabled family members, and she has often turned to the subject spontaneously.
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D.D.," he strips the band down to an acoustic core and plants Rena Lovelis in Dido territory for the album's most affecting and most inward-looking song: "I'm the girl in the back of the class/blank stare, don't care, don't ask.
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In its most affecting scene, performed on Monday night to pin-drop silence, Ms. Burke, Ms. Galilee — who looks so very much like her mother — and Christianna Nelson have scripts in hand as they re-enact a visit Ms. Maleczech paid to a doctor.
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Many of the most affecting stories to come out of family separation crisis involve mothers, be it stories involving small children crying for their mother, or a mother devastated by a child who—when reunified after a separation—didn't seem to know who she was.
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The most affecting version that I have ever seen of this epochal comedy of discontent, Richard Nelson's soft-spoken, self-effacing interpretation — with a devastating Jay O. Sanders in the title role — demanded that we lean in and really listen to Chekhov's forlorn characters.
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The best, funniest, most affecting on-screen Emily Dickinson of 2019 arrived via Wild Nights with Emily, a movie that is a lot of things: a comedy, a historical drama, a romance, and a reimagining of a woman who's familiar to and beloved by many.
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Perhaps the most affecting scene comes as she works with the soprano Edith Wiens, who coaches her breath-work as she would a vocal student's, holding Verdier around the waist as she draws an aria that builds up like a towering mass of sound lines.
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The label has been more or less embraced by the people who develop games within these loose confines, and it has led to some of the medium's most affecting works: Firewatch, Gone Home, Proteus, and Devotion, to name a few of the more prominent examples.
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The best, funniest, most affecting on-screen Emily Dickinson of 22019 arrived via Wild Nights with Emily, a movie that is a lot of things: a comedy, a historical drama, a romance, and a reimagining of a woman who's familiar to and beloved by many.
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When guest vocalist Sarah came out to lend her voice to the sprawling "Deluge," at the end, she and Rachel locked arms and held one another as they sang, and I'll be goddamned if it wasn't one of the most affecting things I've seen in ages.
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"Five Rooms," perhaps the most affecting story, derives its title from the bitingly sarcastic, formidably perceptive 16-year-old narrator's reflections on what it must be like for Mr. Rasmussen, the blind man she helps at the prompting of her mother, to live in unremitting darkness.
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This, actually, is where she does her strongest, funniest, most affecting work: in retelling a love story, which she told for The Moth in 2011, about a 400-pound boyfriend she had to leave when even his diabetes diagnosis wouldn't move him to take care of himself.
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The timing meant that La La Land was automatically entered into the unofficial internet quorum on what new release was the most affecting movie to see after the gut-punch of Trump's victory (for Jia Tolentino, it was Arrival; for Francine Prose, Manchester by the Sea).
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The most affecting mirrored rooms are "Aftermath of Obliteration of Eternity" (2009) and "The Souls of Millions of Light Years Away" (2013), in which tiny colored lights or ones in lantern shapes create the impression of overlooking a sprawling city or drifting in an immense galaxy.
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His most affecting images deal in specificity: a single figure floating on a sea of raised hands, holding his own fists high into the empty expanse above; a wailing woman reaching out past the camera, the sweat of her stress shining like silver on her outstretched arm and forehead.
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Chernobyl is beautifully made, with arresting dialogue, great performances, and cinematography that outlines the stark beauty of its locations, but the maddening reality of the Chernobyl accident and the lives lost in the attempted coverup are what make it one of the most affecting shows of 2019 so far.
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In the video for "Stop Trying to Be God" — one of the densest and most affecting songs from his new album, "Astroworld" — he walks among sheep, gets smote by fire blasts from the sky, baptizes people in a pool and rides a dragon-like creature through the sky.
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But it's one thing to consider the dollar amounts of the legal fees and, in Charlie's case, the travel required of him; it's another thing to consider how the bitterness of a custody battle can put a price on parenting, and that's what I most affecting about Marriage Story.
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The moment I found the most affecting was when she watches Weiner, after a particularly disastrous appearance on MSNBC, revel in what he believes to have been a triumphant performance; in her eyes, you can see thousands of years of women who realize, too late, just what a dipshit they married.
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Some of the most affecting works appear toward the end of the exhibit, with works from the series Mother's (2000–2005), featuring images of her deceased mother's belongings, and ひろしま / hiroshima (2007–2010), documenting the clothing and objects worn by women during the Hiroshima nuclear bombing of 1945.
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What's most affecting about the scene for me is the easy, lived-in rhythm of it, and the way it captures how you can have a fight with your parents for so much of your adolescence that it becomes background noise, barely noticeable and easily set aside at any given moment.
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Ford, in his public life, is a man of few words, and in 2049, that sparseness is advantageous; his dim-eyed stares and chewed-up phrasing tell you all you need to know about what he lost during his 30 years self-exile, and the movie's most affecting scene renders him completely silent.
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Yet, despite the mother-daughter pair's to-the-grave feud, the most affecting scene in the entire Spanglish-and-flan-filled series opener is the episode's final moment, where a weepy, grief-stricken Emma tears up next to her sister Lyn (Melissa Barrera) in the dark as they watch an old family movie.
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Brian Raftery, Wired: Ford, in his public life, is a man of few words, and in 2049, that sparseness is advantageous; his dim-eyed stares and chewed-up phrasing tell you all you need to know about what he lost during his 30 years self-exile, and the movie's most affecting renders him completely silent.
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And in the episode's most affecting moment, Jane — and the stellar Rodriguez — lets her happiness crumble just enough to tell her mother (Andrea Navedo) that she doesn't quite know how to think of herself now that she's had sex, even as she insists she's so relieved to get rid of "this weight" through tears.
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Just as the most affecting onstage moments were owned by Logic, in a black sweatshirt with "Everybody" across the front, performing his suicide awareness song, "1-800-41-8255", and Susan Bro, the mother of Heather Heyer, the woman killed in Charlottesville, Va., who stood up to announce the Best Fight Against the System Award.
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Among the most affecting works for me are the still images from Nan Goldin's series: The Ballad of Sexual Dependency (1979–1986), which I've seen before presented as timed slides that leaf through the relationships, brutal, loving and confounding that Goldin documented with her friends and lovers in New York throughout the late 1970s and the '8153s.
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Her harmonies are some of the most affecting parts of "From A Room: Volume 1," Mr. Stapleton's second solo album, which will be released on Friday, two years after "Traveller," his debut, which went platinum and earned him two Grammys, five Country Music Association awards and the somewhat unexpected role of high-profile vintage country preservationist.
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The song in question also possesses one of Little Fiction's most affecting lyrics, rife with the shame and bewilderment of watching one's country make all the wrong decisions in a matter of months: Hands up if you've never seen the sea I'm from a land with an island status Makes us think that everyone hates us Maybe darling, they do But then, in typical Elbow fashion, the verse ends with the political bleeding into the personal: But they haven't met you.
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