Sentence examples for In the poignant from inspiring English sources

In the poignant opening, a son tells his irascible father while on a fishing trip that his cancer is no longer in remission.

In the poignant words of one Polish radio transmission sent just after the fall of Warsaw: "Absolutely everyone has lost absolutely everything".

In the poignant memoir "Darling Days," Wright, an artist, activist, former child actor and a co-host of the MTV reality series "Suspect," delves into his tumultuous upbringing and struggles with identity.

In the poignant "Couple in Bed" (1977), a sleeping man, still wearing his watch and his shoes, lays his arm across his wife's body, clutching three brushes -- one black, one blue and one red -- in his hand.

In the poignant BBC America movie "After Thomas," Keeley Hawes and Ben Miles play the parents of Kyle, a small boy with autism, whose fierce tantrums diminish and ability to communicate improves after he gets a puppy, named Thomas.

In the poignant piece, Ms. Rogoff also tries to find her father in the taped reminiscences of five eloquent veterans of World War II, in which he served as a medical officer, and of the wars in Korea and Vietnam.

Recently, in India, the poignant case of a battered two-year-old girl, Falak, grabbed the headlines.

His religious poems, in particular the poignant short prayers composed for the individual, presuppose the high degree of literacy typical of Moorish Spain, and they, too, show Arabic incentive.

Although Allen denied its origins in autobiography, the poignant love story almost certainly mirrored some aspects of the real-life relationship that had transpired between Keaton and Allen.

He became household-name famous in 1976, playing the poignant, painfully stuttering Emperor Claudius in the BBC series "I, Claudius".

But politics were nowhere in evidence at the poignant ceremony on Sunday.