poignancy

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• Like the Poco Allegretto of the composer's third symphony, the wistful melody of this movement gives the score poignancy that stamps it as one of the great creations of the romantic era.
• The writing is her usual blend of charming whimsy, heartbreaking poignancy and sometimes impenetrable surrealism.
• Frankly, some foul language can convey such complex, multivalent ideas in single syllables it feels a shame to try to elaborate and risk losing one iota of poignancy in a heated moment.
• There's a gratuitous poignancy provided by the fact that she's lame, which is no doubt to suggest that she won't be able to get another man - it fell a bit flat for me.
• This figure's weak chin, hunched shoulders and humble demeanor contribute to the poignancy and humanity of the busts.
• Her subjects may revolve around love, loss, and guilt but poignancy rarely tips over into plangency.
• The film certainly provides stimuli in its first 10 minutes we get our title gang of renegade heroes, evil Bolivian drug lords and their drug-mule children, a smoking school bus, girls in bikinis, enough high-caliber firepower to light up La Paz, an exploding helicopter, poignancy, death, a thirst for revenge. Only Action Clich
• Owen also provides plenty of poignancy, and does so with admirable unobtrusiveness.
• The poignancy of the last words here remind us that whatever McKinley's politics might have been like (and I don't know anything about them), he was a person who, in extremis, cared about other people. Intertribal: And if my life is like the dust that hides the glow of a rose, what good am I
• Eddie's failings are lent an almost intolerable poignancy by his former chauvinistic notions of patriotism.