But if the author is Snodgrass, he is touchingly sincere.
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But, once you're seated, the servers are warm and touchingly enthusiastic.
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She said Mr. Martin and Ms. Vinson could be touchingly generous.
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I found Alexandra's reactions touchingly real, even when they seem unreasonable.
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Perhaps most touchingly, to children, Tiamat is a storybook come to life.
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The videos are believably viral and Ralph and Vanellope's relationship is touchingly bittersweet.
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Eleonora Rinuccini (1813-1886) wrote touchingly affectionate missives to her husband and children.
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He again said—somewhat touchingly—that Lucey would corroborate his version of events.
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Mr. Fulton touchingly spoke to Dr. Patel's family in their native language, Gujarati.
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She was affectionate and spoke touchingly about how she fell in love with Trump.
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Still, their love for each other and for the art becomes absurdly, touchingly vivid.
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Despite their old age, the pair appear to still be touchingly committed to one another.
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All happy families are alike in the illusion of superiority that their children touchingly harbor.
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Touchingly, attractively, the film showed children discovering both ballet and, by way of dance, themselves.
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And, perhaps most touchingly, this significant donation was all thanks to one little boy's heartfelt idea.
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Now, impressively and touchingly, it's been reimagined as a chamber piece by the choreographer Luca Veggetti.
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" She also singles out Lady Gaga's performance as the ingénue Ally, describing her as "touchingly vulnerable.
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A year ago, only the touchingly optimistic believed that Mr Macron could take his political adventure anywhere.
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Russell Janzen is a natural to this world; there was something touchingly hopeless about his ardent hope.
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Most touchingly, we hear mothers from the Belgian suburb of Molenbeek, whose children heeded the fundamentalists' call.
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Yachty is deferential around Lee, but Lee, rather touchingly, finds ways to be deferential to Yachty, too.
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As the snow fell outside, we sat close on my couch while he talked touchingly about poetry.
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Actually, he is touchingly tender and openhearted, as fragile, in his way, as Frances is in hers.
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Some of the foundlings' tokens—a notched coin, a little padlock, a coral necklace—are touchingly displayed here.
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There followed a good deal of halting, touchingly formal talk about harvests and the maddening intermittence of rain.
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But whenever the show sings, Mr. Yazbek's music transports you to a place both exotic and touchingly familiar.
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In one pivotal fight scene, filmed from both lovers' perspectives, he makes Peter's hurt and confusion touchingly real.
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And yet the same two women were paragons of touchingly romantic old-world femininity in "Vienna Waltzes" on Sunday.
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Touchingly, the children sometimes seem closer to the castaways of the Swiss Family Robinson, whose self-reliance was involuntary.
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Also here, Man Ray's 1925 "Still Life With Banjo" shows the touchingly awkward searcher who preceded the suave Surrealist.
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The supposition they would be otherwise strikes me as touchingly naive, coming from a presumably worldly, touring rock star.
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Most touchingly, we meet Jackson Kennedy, a little boy with a rare genetic condition that's causing him to go blind.
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It's a "quintessential lullaby", says Mr Bohn, a touchingly simple ode to the bond between a mother and her child.
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On Friday, Connor Walsh was touchingly vulnerable but explosive; and on Saturday afternoon, Charles-Louis Yoshiyama was impulsive, ardent, anguished.
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It is the perfect soundtrack to a world that is absurdly comedic and tragic, and very touchingly human at times.
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On that trip, Mr. Bowie visited the Factory; touchingly, he wanted to play his song "Andy Warhol" for the man himself.
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The touchingly youthful simplicity of her style is unchanged; the gorgeous arches of her tapering feet seem more remarkable than ever.
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They routinely interact with more opaquely colored humans; touchingly, we see ethereal goddesses sadly cradling their more embodied-looking adult sons.
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These essays are often richly explored — especially the ones based in philosophical thought — and, when art is the subject, touchingly personal.
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As the bus rattled and bumped along the rocky roads, it became touchingly clear that my father was trying to distract me.
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Though Mr. Angle is one of dance's foremost partners, Ms. Delgado sometimes guided him, touchingly, within an unbroken stream of shared thought.
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Touchingly, the exhibition closes with Fiona Tan's two-channel video installation, "The Changeling" (103), in a darkened room off its "Portraits" gallery.
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The play's most vulnerable individual is Schultz, whom Mr. Lawler, also the company's associate artistic director, touchingly depicts with an often perplexed look.
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The merits of silence were first touchingly addressed by "l'Orchestre Symbolique" (Symbolic Orchestra) with a theatrical performance called "Symphonie des silences" (Silent Symphony).
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Touchingly, these crisp linear elements are cosseted by soft brushwork, especially by the grid of pink and white cloudlike blocks across the middle.
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They are touchingly earnest and ambitious, perplexed by their secular peers but open-minded enough to nurture friendships with non-Muslims like Aspden.
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It is also a reminder of how touchingly respectful of Newark, transformed though it has been by immigration, deindustrialisation and riots, he always is.
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Film director and Empire creator Lee Daniels gave an impassioned, touchingly shambling speech, urging the government to tackle gun control in a meaningful way.
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Touchingly, a throwaway scrap of paper from 1964 reveals a list of pseudonyms the band gave each of themselves while on tour in Amsterdam.
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The adults in "The Nameless City" are not as well drawn, though Kai's awkward relationship with the father he barely knows is touchingly handled.
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He is already comfortably domestic, the household's grocery shopper and cook; touchingly, he insists on preparing their wedding lunch and baking their cake himself.
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Ms. Sakata is so touchingly, desperately beseeching that you may feel the need to call your own mother as soon as the curtain falls.
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He seems pleased, and the story is littered with these touchingly plausible moments, as men and women reveal, or rejoice in, their technological ease.
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And Mr. Dickinson is touchingly callow as Paul (though he registers as significantly older than 16, the age Mr. Getty was when he was kidnapped).
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He says little about his time in Iraq, says his grandmother, Rosa Murtazayeva, but it is obvious he remains touchingly attached to his father, Hasan.
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What's different, though, is the performers' skill in portraying characters whose extreme mutual dependence is touchingly believable, giving no hint of the damage later revealed.
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Georgie, his mostly mute "idiot brother," is brought to life through abstract movement developed by the choreographer Erin Kilmurray and touchingly performed by Travis Turner.
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What we get is an impassioned, articulate artist who adored nature and painting it and had a touchingly codependent relationship with his younger brother Theo.
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Although the choreographer August Bournonville (1805-79) didn't create the company, he bequeathed it such a wealth of touchingly human choreography that it remains his.
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He devoted his last years on Cape Cod, touchingly, to writing, designing, and directing avant-garde plays for a local theater troupe called Le Théatricule Stoïque.
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She acted the role touchingly, as in the crucial early scene when Aeneas, here the stalwart, mellow-voiced baritone Elliot Madore, arrived with a marriage proposal.
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The dead dwell here, but also the living: Gisleson's mother is touchingly portrayed, as is Ronald, the death row inmate whom her father counseled for years.
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And when Ms. Haley touchingly reappears as a girl mistaken for a geisha by British sailors, it suggests a connection that a plusher production would miss.
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Set atop a brass stand on green baize inside a wood-framed glass vitrine, and illuminated like a figure onstage, the naked eye seems touchingly abashed.
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His wife, Theresia, the daughter of a wealthy bank official, died in 1807; one of Salieri's reminiscences is a touchingly long-winded account of their courtship.
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Brown veers between making him the creepy child right out of a horror movie and the touchingly misunderstood victim of mental illness or post-traumatic stress.
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Patton Oswalt took home the Emmy for outstanding writing for a variety special and touchingly referred to his late wife, Michelle McNamara, as he accepted the award.
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Sofia Coppola's tale of missed opportunities is in many ways a love letter to the talents of Scarlett Johansson (a mature 18) and Bill Murray (touchingly melancholic).
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Their banter was endearingly awkward when it wasn't touchingly heartfelt, a mixture of "Who downloaded the album today, y'all?" with brief, earnest explanations of their song selections.
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But he is also a man of touchingly willful optimism, a professional actor who keeps putting on his best happy face until it melts right off him.
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Their playful sexual chemistry nettles Matthew (John J. Concado), a judgmental pill who is somehow touchingly vulnerable, and wounds Marcus, whose own heart is fully invested in Jonathan.
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It's your basic themeless Saturday grid, but today James Mulhern has touchingly included an entry at 7A that is a tribute to his dog Mickey, who passed away.
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You can see her skin, the flutter in her veins, which brings you close to her, and can make both the actress and her character feel touchingly vulnerable.
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James has a tricksy manner, but his purpose in his memoirs is touchingly transparent: to say how the big moments of his life felt exactly as they happened.
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But they're fodder for Mont, who carries around a red sketchbook filled with portraits and scribbles, and who eventually transforms a world of loss into touchingly reflexive art.
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Greenman looks at those flaws with clear eyes, but he's such an admirer that he can be touchingly over-praiseful as well, particularly when it comes to lyrics.
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He also turns the title song into a wordless dance solo for Ms. Charisse in which she touchingly evokes her character's transformation from humorless ideologue to willing sexual object.
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Tyrion has enough influence to secure for himself, among his outsized supply of paid mistresses, a woman he genuinely loves: the camp follower Shae, touchingly played by Sibel Kekilli.
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She's a touchingly twisted bad girl – the best since Michelle Pfeiffer's Catwoman – and practically drunk (or high) on a romantic conviction that anyone else could spot as a pathetic delusion.
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Touchingly, the actors participating in the special have likened their onscreen appearances to something of an homage to Stephen Hillenburg, the creator of SpongeBob SquarePants who died in November 2018.
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And even here, there's something touchingly odd, and extremely confident, about Mr. Holzhauer, who admitted to New York magazine that his record-breaking single-game victory tally was no coincidence.
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Tony Shalhoub, winner for actor in a play in "The Band's Visit," touchingly recalled his father's arrival at Ellis Island a century ago without mentioning the current battles over immigration.
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In her introduction, Luft touchingly told the crowd that Minnelli had always been there for her throughout her life — including a recent bout with cancer, that Loft said she's since conquered.
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It's not like any of us would actually want to work in, you know, Dayton or Detroit or any of the neglected corners of America you speak about so touchingly, Tucker.
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It's touchingly raw to hear Nancy admit she questions whether she's giving her son Brian, who has yet to speak at age 6, even though he has the capabilities, the best home.
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There is something delightful about watching them search for answers to explain their existence; their sincere belief that they will find enlightenment at this lame retreat is both humorous and touchingly sad.
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Her whole manner is austere: Touchingly tentative transitional moments are followed by others of complete authority as her eyes, hands and arms arrive perfectly in a completed forward gesture into the beyond.
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With a cousin, Skylar (Talia Ryder, touchingly delicate), she buys a bus ticket to New York, where a minor doesn't need parental permission to obtain an abortion, unlike in her home state.
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Yet even as he follows Mr. Selznick's narrative lead, Mr. Haynes quietly and touchingly makes "Wonderstruck" his own because the wonder of the film isn't in its story but in its telling.
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Despite Winfrey's touchingly vulnerable performance, that feels almost as underdeveloped as the science of what came to be known as "HeLa" cells, and the contemptuous way the hospital treated an African American family.
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MUTUAL FAN CLUB: Fellow Texans Kacey Musgraves and Willie Nelson formed a fast friendship years ago, and their mutual affection was touchingly clear once the cameras turned away after their "Rainbow Connection" duet.
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In its place is a more cautious, altogether creakier energy, one that touchingly mirrors the emotional and physical states of men who are neither as spry nor as carefree as their younger selves.
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As her chief prey, the virtuous Joe, a touchingly bewildered Clifton Duncan has a tenor that matches Ms. Rose's mezzo in ways that remind you that, in opera, sex starts in the vocal cords.
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" Abramovic writes touchingly about romantic heartbreak, about the pain of separation from Ulay and her sense of betrayal when her husband, the Italian artist Paolo Canevari, left her for a self-styled "sexual anthropologist.
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Dan (Steve Zissis, whose touchingly vulnerable performance in the HBO series "Togetherness" cemented that show's tone of romantic resilience) is a Los Angeles painter whose weekend cabin has sprouted a pair of annoying apparitions.
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But in "City Lights," Chaplin plays a touchingly sensitive tramp who gives all his money to a beautiful blind woman for surgery without expecting so much as a kiss on the hand in return.
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But after watching "The Day After," David lands on a touchingly ludicrous strategy to address his exploding anxieties: digging a fallout shelter with a new friend, Scott, in the field behind a housing development Scott's dad owns.
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Widow Simone, the mother of the heroine, Lise, is played by a man (a tradition that goes back to 19th-century Russia), and yet the relationship between mother and daughter is one of touchingly real conflict and affection.
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There are 12 people onstage: the six performers of Dance Heginbotham (four women, two men); the four musicians of the Knights; and Ms. Kalman and Daniel Pettrow, who both speak (entertainingly, touchingly, melodiously) and occasionally dance (rather well).
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Allen's voice is powerful, but even more impressive is how she connects that instrument to emotional truth, seeming to pull the sad or lovely or touchingly naïve stories spoken by her castmates onto a higher and more terrifying plane.
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But the show is still on the air, and it just kicked off its 22nd season with a major milestone: the wedding of Mr. Ratburn, Arthur's longtime third grade teacher, in an episode that touchingly portrayed same-sex marriage.
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It's always hard to pin down how Keaton makes herself register so fully in a role, how she does so with such clarity, beauty and realness, but her Mary from the get-go is unflappably pragmatic and touchingly humble.
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Last week, voters learned that Mr. Cruz's 2012 Senate campaign, in which he railed against Wall Street bailouts, was financed more by loans from Goldman Sachs and Citibank than by the family piggy bank, as he touchingly claimed on the stump.
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Most touchingly, there are the amnesiacs whom the doctors study, men whose memories reach back only to the moment before; and those nonamnesiacs — at least by clinical definition — who will themselves to forget through alcohol, drugs or plain old denial.
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Ms. Brown touchingly intimates that Mary Page has at last come to terms with the woman she has become and the selves she has shed, but can also recall with equanimity the ghosts of the women she might have been.
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His publishers tell us that Mr. Trevor is young, and this makes it all the more remarkable that he should have taken this difficult material and made out of it a novel that is exceedingly readable, touchingly sad and dreadfully funny.
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But he also had, from early on, a Betjemanian love of Englishness: he tells, touchingly, of schoolboy trips to see old churches and abbeys and of a keen love for Pre-Raphaelite art, that wistful-whimsical mode of nineteenth-century British painting.
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This interrogation took place in the Bureau of African Affairs, where the scowling Jesse MacKnight scolded me before a roomful of bureaucrats, and then rather touchingly softened his tone and implored me to give him details about the underground rebel movement in Malawi.
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But even as he rolled out these drastic measures (including civil penalties) to ensure physical distance, he underscored the importance of maintaining social connections, touchingly recounting how he is doing this himself with his daughter, who was in isolation for two weeks.
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Diana's hippie-Wiccan aunts, touchingly played by Kingston and Valarie Pettiford, live in one of the tale's more charming inventions: a funky, sentient house that rattles the crockery when it's irritated and supplies flashbacks by conjuring up life-size holographic scenes in situ.
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A scholarship to read history at one of the ancient universities was both a rite of passage for established members of the elite and a ticket into the elite for clever provincial boys, as Alan Bennett documented so touchingly in his play "The History Boys".
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It might be that had Geithner not gone into public service, as it is sometimes, touchingly, called, his talents would have allowed him to shoot straight to the top of one our investment banks, making such a loan a rounding error on his net worth.
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"The BFG" is most touchingly an expression of Mr. Spielberg's movie love, evident in its emphasis on dreams, a lovely interlude involving a kind of shadow play and even in an allusion to a Zoetrope, a protocinematic device that creates the illusion of motion.
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Thoughtfully and meticulously curated by Yvette Torres, the installation suggests exuberant cross-talk among the exhibited paintings, ceramics, textiles and photos — the kind that is touchingly personal, intimate and disjointed, as if overheard at a summer cocktail party among close friends, which the artists were.
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In a touchingly honest moment, Harry — who has lived with the British tabloids since birth — opened up about the pressures of his royal role and how the memory of his mother Princess Diana was at the forefront of his mind throughout the Africa tour.
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One of those minor characters whose short life is touchingly evoked and memorialized is named Toussaint Legrand, a very poor, ill-educated, and undernourished young man who begs his way into Judge Célestin's political circle, and who ends up working as his unofficial campaign manager.
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It has room enough for a slightly campy hand-to-window moment in a steamed-up car, a comedic routine involving a fire axe and a pair of handcuffs, and a touchingly authentic scene of sacrifice on a bit of floating wreckage in the icy Atlantic.
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The last few seconds, in which he seems to be stunned by his own come-up and then places a kiss on a Chaka Khan poster, are so beautifully and touchingly Kanye that I'm getting choked up just relaying what it feels like to watch it.
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I particularly liked the gentleman at the Eisenhower Center (a real place, in Milwaukee) who has a mental impairment and delivers a proud rendition of "Born in the U.S.A." At once breakneck and tolerant, "Give Me Liberty" manages to be both rousingly Russian and touchingly all-American.
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In some ways, it looks like Views is going to be the final chapter in the great sociological experiment that has been Drake: the human-meme, superstar rapper, lint-rolling connoisseur who has captured our minds with his perfectly symmetrical face and oft-touchingly sentimental rap tracks.
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They fare better than Annes Elwy as the sickly Beth or Maya Hawke in the central role of the argumentative budding writer, Jo. Among the adult supporting characters, Angela Lansbury has some amusing moments as Aunt March and Michael Gambon some touchingly courtly ones as Mr. Laurence, the wealthy neighbor.
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Though she placed maximum demands on Mr. Ramasar, he is now the most touchingly chivalrous of cavaliers; and when she stretched back in his arms at the end of those supported pirouettes, he timed to perfection the moment of thrilling stillness before he then turned with her one more time.
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"Is there a particular kind of abjection that some of us are drawn to, participate in, possibly romanticize?" she asks, while also wondering, touchingly — at this point as a single mother of two — "what deep security am I withholding from the children?" by insisting on living life on her own terms.
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But despite the odd extravagance, these spoken forewords of Fry's constitute one of the set's major pleasures, illuminated by informed enthusiasm and personal revelation: In one he rather touchingly recounts how his first encounter with Holmes, at a very early age, changed his life, leading him on to truancy, expulsion from school and, finally, briefly, prison.
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At one point, Hemingway came upon the boy, whom he called Giggy, trying on his mother's stockings and dress in a family bedroom in Cuba, and later said to him, "We come from a strange tribe, you and I." He doubtless saw in this boy, his favorite, ambiguities that he could never confess, and it made him by turns both enraged and, oddly, touchingly, empathetic.
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Yet people tend to forget that so seemingly "disruptive" a book as "Portnoy's Complaint" is formed from a tension between the narrator's need to assert his sexual autonomy, to own his human desires without shame, and his enormous estimation of the integrated Jewish-Newark culture in which he grew up—represented, most touchingly, by a Saturday softball team on which the narrator dreams of playing.
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As the art market continues to cater to those who seem determined to amass ever more wealth, regardless of social cost; as our society is categorically stripped of the tools of education, access, reproductive freedom, and critical thinking in the service of creating as many mindless consumers as possible; as technology increasingly dissolves the boundaries that enable us to create space and experience its benefits, Monk's work is touchingly human, and more important than ever.
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He is a touchingly perfect representative—far more than the prickly Voltaire—of a certain French intellectual kind not entirely vanished: ambitious, ironic, obsessed with sex to a hair-raising degree (he wrote a whole novella devoted to the secret testimony of women's genitalia), while gentle and loving in his many and varied amorous connections; possessed of a taste for sonorous moralizing abstraction on the page and an easy temporizing feel for worldly realism in life; and ferociously aggressive in literary assault while insanely thin-skinned in reaction, littering long stretches of skillful social equivocation with short bursts of astonishing courage.
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