Sentence examples for a poignant speech from inspiring English sources

"If I'm president, I want one thing to be known," Mr. Bradley said in a poignant speech about race delivered in New York last April.

In late May, New Orleans mayor Mitch Landrieu gave a poignant speech about the painful symbolism of Confederate remembrances. .

The Grammy winner went off-script while presenting a clip from "La La Land" to deliver a poignant speech about acceptance. .

Nyakong was not actually a subject in Mellia's portrait series, but she came to the exhibition opening and gave a poignant speech in front of nearly a hundred people, with an emphasis on religion saving her from drowning in the memories of her past trauma.

They are stories of the small changes and revelations that took place in individual lives as a result of participation that day, stories that, as well as any poignant speech, highlight how far the nation has come; and has yet to go.

"I know you can't live on hope alone; but without hope, life is not worth living," he said during a particularly poignant speech.

Just as fellow recipient Reese Witherspoon did in 2011, Downey used the moment to impart a bit of wisdom to the youth via a typically nonchalant but rather poignant speech.

Eight years to the day after she delivered a poignant concession speech to Barack Obama, in which she talked of having made "eighteen million cracks" in the glass ceiling, Hillary Clinton walked onto a stage at the Brooklyn Navy Yard last night under very different circumstances.

He burst into the limelight with a poignant acceptance speech aimed at lonely, isolated gay kids.

Much to the audience's delight, Carrey then went full bore into a poignant, impassioned speech about the current political system.

Tobias has several intensely dramatic scenes, but his most poignant speech is the tale of a cat he once owned who seemed to change suddenly.