It's at times a darkly comedic satire, but it also includes unabashed poignance.
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I cried at every episode, once from sadness but more often from wistfulness and poignance.
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The best of the bunch is probably Cars 3, which surprised critics with some unexpected poignance.
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There's the sour news, which is complicated by tangential sensations of grotesquerie and elegance, fury and poignance, and, perhaps, of philosophical insight.
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Last week, Forest City was sold for $11.4bn to Canada's Brookfield Asset Management, and even the buyer could grasp the poignance of the moment.
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The macabre poignance of the first two-thirds of the film swiftly devolves into silliness, ending on a note that is neither heartbreaking nor horrific.
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While this network of subject and object appears throughout Mayröcker's oeuvre, it takes on rapt poignance in a book framed by conversation with Hölderlin/Scarandelli.
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Even Celeste's ultimate courtroom victory feels perfunctory, its moments of poignance and dramatic irony weighted down by the season's palpable disinterest in its own characters.
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The new video takes on a particular poignance in the wake of the devastating massacre at Pulse, a gay nightclub in Orlando, on June 12.
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All that noise doesn't quite conceal a league-wise case of ennui; the obvious of the latter adds a sort of mocking poignance to the former.
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"Although I've made hundreds of pairs of shoes I have never made a pair of shoes with such poignance and emotion to them before," Weise said.
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The question carries all the naive poignance of youth that has not lived long enough in the world to accept its inexplicable prejudices as a norm.
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There's an undeniable poignance in the concept of young people living with the specter of death constantly at their shoulders, making it impossible to be "normal" kids.
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The reimagined, Mark Ronson-ish version is glorious enough with its warm, organic live backing and Q-Tip singing instead of rapping, but the visuals help add some poignance.
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What's more, his past as a soldier, mercenary, and mindless living weapon gives him a depth, complexity, and poignance that few other characters in the medium can compete with.
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Her various references to shadows, ghosts, and other "gothic" images can even be read as representing relationships experienced online — especially those that wistfully decay into an ephemeral game without a lasting sense of poignance.
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Zinging between humor and poignance with a lot of charm, it achieves in its most insightful moments what comedy does best: Let us laugh at the world a little, by way of learning something about ourselves.
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That has added depth and poignance not just to their relationship, but to every good deed that Jimmy does, realizing he's eventually going to end up sweating through those tense black-and-white flash-forwards that kick off each season.
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I can't dismiss the frustration some feel about the constrained ambition of these features, but I can't shrug off the poignance of their modest aims, either — to insist on not just visibility but stardom, the right to be projected larger than life.
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The weight of these photos she came away with from that time is the poignance of a space created to strike awe, and an admiration for those who made their way pacing in front of crowds or looking for home in the company of strangers.
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That biographical fact gives the book a special poignance that enriches James' loving memories of his family and friends.
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Pitchfork thought that the riff in the first part of "Posthumous Forgiveness" sounded like something Jimmy Page would have played. The A.V. Club thought that the "mildly trippy effects" in the song "saps poignance" during the first two minutes.
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Reviewers have lauded the concise poignance of the film, calling it a "chilling 8-minutes" that adeptly explain the importance of the protection of the freedom of media, and have praised the filmmakers for covering an important topic that is conspicuously overlooked by other media outlets.
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The lyrics were written and recorded in three days, and mixing took another four days. In 2005, MTV.com ranked The 7 Day Theory at #9 among the hip hop's greatest albums ever, and by 2006 a classic album. Its singular poignance, through hurt and rage, contemplation and vendetta, resonate with many fans.
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The essay on Ibsen has biographical relevance and even poignance for James, who would experience a very public failure in the theater just a few years after this book was published. The respect James pays to the renowned playwright betrays how much he wanted to succeed in the theater himself, and how bitter his eventual defeat would be.
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While describing with great poignance the poverty of Kuchnevolence of Krishna, Warrier was indirectly presenting his miseries before the King seeking the King's help. It is considered that Warrier was amply rewarded. Although composed more than two centuries ago, the poem is still one of the most popular poems of Malayalam language. An annotated edition was published by DC Books.
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Predominantly written by Mercury, they are effectively farewell notes. He poured out his heart, and his words have a throat-aching poignance. Even the record's opening verse assumes a painful significance." Jerusalem Post wrote: "Somehow Mercury and Queen's ability to make a joyful noise in the face of pain and death makes this a very comforting album to have around in shaky times.
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" The progressing relationship between Maggie Greene and Glenn was well received by critics. Nate Rawlings of Time asserted that their interactions carried the most emotional poignance. Rawlings opined: "She's forced to confront, perhaps for the first time, that these creatures are slobbering monsters. Before her attack, she yelled at Dale [sic] for calling them Walkers; to her they're mom, her brother, the neighbors.
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It received generally positive acclaim upon release for its poignance and social criticism. Speaking to NPR Illinois about the non-profit album, the singer-songwriter described this start to her solo music career: "I wanted to not only touch on my own experiences with sexual violence, but also how I find empowerment in being a woman". Blue additionally released two albums and one extended play with Tara Terra, as well as a 2015 EP in electropop duo BOYCUT alongside Justin Peters.
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"The peak of passion", The Sunday Times, 27 March 2007 Other comments have included "compelling but dramatically flawed",Jennings, Luke. "That's one lean, mean Onegin",The Observer, 27 January 2013 "magnificent... a neck-pricking five-star triumph,Brown, Ismene. "Rojo leads a five-star triumph", The Daily Telegraph, 24 November 2001 "stodgily operatic"Anderson, Zoe. "Lukewarm love in a cold climate", The Independent, 5 October 2010 and "a sad, beautiful ballet, a true romance with four finely drawn leading characters and a grown-up poignance rarely found.
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First edition (publ. Brewer, Warren & Putnam) The Pastures of Heaven is a short story cycle by John Steinbeck, first published in 1932, consisting of twelve interconnected stories about a valley, the Corral de Tierra, in Monterey, California, which was discovered by a Spanish corporal while chasing runaway Indian slaves. Enchanted by the valley's natural beauty, the corporal names it Las Pasturas del Cielo or "The Pastures of Heaven." The stories are written in classic Steinbeck style; the lives of the families that relocate to the valley are portrayed with a mixture of humor and poignance.
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Concerning his subject matter, he likes to emphasize simpler things which suggest use by people, a time or an atmosphere. Finding and expressing mystery in everyday life has always been Mark's artistic credo...the patternless life and color of a crazy quilt, the silent invitation of a canoe waiting to cross the open water, the poignance of a child's abandoned tea party. Mark prefers realism, breaking from the current trends in American art toward abstraction and expressionism. His deep personal faith forms a basis from which to verify and depict reality.
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Eliot Fremont-Smith, reviewing The Autobiography of Malcolm X for The New York Times in 1965, described it as "extraordinary" and said it is a "brilliant, painful, important book". Two years later, historian John William Ward wrote that the book "will surely become one of the classics in American autobiography". Bayard Rustin argued the book suffered from a lack of critical analysis, which he attributed to Malcolm X's expectation that Haley be a "chronicler, not an interpreter." Newsweek also highlighted the limited insight and criticism in The Autobiography but praised it for power and poignance.
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Invitation is a song by Bronisław Kaper with lyrics by Paul Francis Webster, originally used in the film A Life of Her Own (1950). Though it was nominated for a Golden Globe award for Best Score in the original film, it only became a jazz standard after being used as the theme in the 1952 film Invitation. Tony Thomas notes that it was selected for the film for its degree of poignance. It is considered to be Kaper's second best known song after "On Green Dolphin Street". Jazzstandards.
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Christine Arnothy writes with compassion, economy and reticence."Herald Tribune,Herald Tribune, 10 June 1956; "The juxtaposition of tender youth with war's brutality gives any book an irresistible poignance, and when the narrator has so marked a flair for writing as Christine Arnothy, the story can hardly fail to move." San Francisco Examiner,San Francisco Examiner, 11 June 1956; "Seldom have horror and tenderness been more effectively juxtaposed." Chicago Sunday TribuneChicago Sunday Tribune, 8 July 1956; "The incidents recorded by Miss Arnothy set the book apart from other such records.
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" Nemy, Enid "A 'Ma Rainey' Quartet Plays Its Own Special Music." After Wilson and director Lloyd Richards worked together for almost two years on the play, Ma Rainey opened at the Yale Repertory Theater in April 1984. It then moved to Broadway, where it ran from October 11, 1984 through June 9, 1985. Frank Rich, then theater critic for The New York Times, wrote, "As acted by Mr. Judd, Joe Seneca and Leonard Jackson, the monologues have the beauty and poignance of the old-time solos that the musicians improvise on their instruments.
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On March 26, 1911, while Bridgers' wife and children were visiting her parents in Harrodsburg, Kentucky, they were killed in a house fire. It has often been misreported that from this tragedy, Bridgers wrote the words and music for "He Keeps Me Singing." Undoubtedly, the song took on a greater poignance after the incident, as Bridgers continued to grow in reputation as a powerful preacher in revival meetings throughout the South. In 1914 he was named General Evangelist by the Methodist Episcopal Church, South and married Aline Winburn with whom he sired Luther B. Bridgers, Jr (1915-1992).
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For plumeriamovies Arjun Anand wrote, Yaathrayude Anthyam is the most simplest film of the writer, it almost feels like a stretched out slice-of-life episode. But the filmmaking is quietly engaging. Death is a very melodramatic subject. If his contemporaries, Padmarajan in his Moonnam Pakkam, Lohithadas in Bharatham or Dennis Joseph in Akashadoothu among others, treated death and grief with melodrama and exuberant poignance, KG George’s take on the subject―just like any other work of his―is subdued, objective and intellectual. The profoundness in his writing is not literary like MT/Lohi, it’s rather rational.
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Reviewers have pointed out a degree of poignancy on the part of the monstrous Quintillus as he searches for the reincarnation of the woman he loves. American science fiction film scholar Bill Warren noted that a 1958 review of the film in the Motion Picture Herald said that "there is in the primeval surge of the blind, grappling relic of historic tragedy, a certain poignance". American film critic Bryan Senn agreed, writing that "while little more than a walking statue, this Vesuvian villain's doomed motivation and unique appearance combine to make it a monster both poignant and creepy". Curse of the Faceless Man has otherwise received both positive and negative assessments.
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While completing his production on Preston's release,Madinger & Easter, pp. 426–27. Harrison chose to record the song himself for what became the title track of his post-Beatles solo debut, the triple album All Things Must Pass.Tillery, p. 87. In describing "All Things Must Pass" as a "haunting hymn about the mortality of everything", author Elliot Huntley notes the added poignance in Harrison's version, due to the death of his mother in July 1970 after a long period of illness. With Phil Spector as his co-producer, Harrison taped the basic track at Abbey Road Studios between 26 May and early in June.Badman, p. 10.
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Albert of IGN felt that the searching tool was "gratifying", and positively contributes to the pacing of the game, while The Washington Posts Thomsen wrote that the database mechanic created "contemplative gaps between scenes", allowing for "poignance and power" within the narrative. Edge thought that by having game mechanics which require the player to deduce the story through investigation and intuition, Her Story was one of few games "that truly deliver on the foundational fantasy of detective work." Bendixsen of Good Game described the desktop as "appropriately retro", noting that she was "drawn in immediately". The game sold over 100,000 copies by 10 August 2015; about 60,000 copies were sold on Windows, with the remaining 40,000 sold on iOS.
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Ben Brantley, in his review for The New York Times, wrote "whatever its flaws, 'Act One,'... brims contagiously with the ineffable, irrational and irrefutable passion for that endangered religion called the Theater." Elysa Gardner, in her review in USA Today, wrote that the play "... is rather an appreciation, most notable for its deep affection and almost deferential reverence. To say the play lacks the complex poignance of the 'Sunday in the Park with George' and 'Into the Woods' librettist's best work wouldn't be fair; however wry Hart's humor or complicated his relationships — with show business, his family, other people — his 'Act One' is a nostalgic and ultimately upbeat reflection on fulfilling a dream....Lapine captures that essence and the period, on the page and on the stage."Gardner, Elysa.
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" Entertainment Weekly wrote a mixed review: "Pleasantville is ultramodern and beautiful. But technical elegance and fine performances mask the shallowness of a story as simpleminded as the '50s TV to which it condescends; certainly it's got none of the depth, poignance, and brilliance of The Truman Show, the recent TV-is-stifling drama that immediately comes to mind." The film also received a mixed review from Christian Answers, but was criticized because "On a surface level, the message of the film appears to be "morality is black and white and pleasant, but sin is color and better," because often through the film the Pleasantvillians become color after sin (adultery, premarital sex, physical assault, etc...). In one scene in particular, a young woman shows a brightly colored apple to young (and yet uncolored) David, encouraging him to take and eat it. Very reminiscent of the Genesis’s account of the fall of man.
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Wylie seldom allows her verses to grow agitated, she never permits them to remain dull.... in 'August' the sense of heat is conveyed by tropic luxuriance and contrast; in 'The Eagle and the Mole' she lifts didacticism to a proud level ... never has snow-silence been more unerringly communicated than in 'Velvet Shoes.'" Other notable poems include "Wild Peaches," "A Proud Lady," "Sanctuary," "Winter Sleep," "Madman's Song," "The Church-Bell," and "A Crowded Trolley Car." In Black Armor (1923), "the intellect has grown more fiery, the mood has grown warmer, and the craftsmanship is more dazzling than ever.... she varies the perfect modulation with rhymes that are delightfully acrid and unique departures which never fail of success ... from the nimble dexterity of a rondo like 'Peregrine' to the introspective poignance of 'Self Portrait,' from the fanciful 'Escape' to the grave mockery of 'Let No Charitable Hope.'"Louis Untermeyer, Elinor Wylie,'" Modern American Poetry, (New York: Harcourt Brace, 1930), 538-540.
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Bosley Crowther of The New York Times wrote > Despite the fact that the story is "dated," that it offers a very familiar > theme and that the present production is loaded with some typical > "Hollywood" flaws, there is still a great deal of solid substance in this > latest retelling of the tale ...For the better part of the picture, we are > largely indebted to Jane Wyman...remarkably strong and effective in every > forthright little bit she does. From her earliest appearance...to her > ultimate poignant scene...she is humble, restrained and sure...Where the > picture falls down is in those phases in which the grown-up son goes to > Chicago and gets himself infected with false notions of a successful career. > Here John Twist's adaptation and Mr. Wise's direction are unsure, and the > acting by all and sundry has a specious and artificial quality...As a > consequence of its downward tangent toward the end, the whole picture loses > force. The poignance of the mother's disappointment in her dearly loved son > goes awry.
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