Sentence examples for like poignant from inspiring English sources

A month after pundits declared the current presidential contest the "meanest," "nastiest," "most poisonous," and "dirtiest campaign in history," those summer laments already seem like poignant reminders of a kinder, gentler time.

Seen in three diminishing scaled rooms, you move from the operatically baroque to a final room of a single Hellenic-like, poignant double bust with a single eye looking skyward.

But mainly his work takes form in sculpture, photographs and books, as well as high-definition silent films like the poignant 2010 short piece "House".

At the time, it felt like a poignant Chekhovian story about a decent, if slightly pathetic man trying to shore up a failed life.

Jane Kaczmarek and Kurt Fuller are likely to be funny as Gavin's parents, but their casting also indicates that the pilot's tone may be more American sitcom-standard and less like the poignant (if sometimes prosaic) realism of the original.

The hallmark of Peckinpah's fierce aesthetic is a hysterical restraint in the face of violence; it plays like a poignant response to a way of life — and of work.

Like the poignant montages in a 2003 documentary about a troubled family, "Tarnation," these snippets are evidence that the members of a younger generation have become very used to having their whole lives recorded.

A single paragraph of St. Aubyn's may start out in clipped comic mode and seem perfectly legible, then slowly curdle into something much more unreadable and mysterious, like this poignant recital of Patrick's psychosomatic symptoms: His body was a graveyard of buried emotion; its symptoms were clustered around the same fundamental terror..

In songs like the poignant "Sad & Beautiful World", the prophetic "Sick Of Goodbyes" – co-written with his friend David Lowery of the group Cracker, and first recorded by them in 1993 – or the melancholy "Saturday", and in the hesitant interviews he gave, Linkous did more than allude to the depression that plagued him throughout his life.

The music combines songs like the poignant Yiddish resistance song, "We'll Live Forever," composed in the Nazi-run Jewish ghetto in Vilna just before it was liquidated, with rap passages about current problems like racism that, in Ms. Bejarano's view, show that the lessons of the Holocaust still need to be learned.

A single paragraph of St. Aubyn's may start out in clipped comic mode and seem perfectly legible, then slowly curdle into something much more unreadable and mysterious, like this poignant recital of Patrick's psychosomatic symptoms: His body was a graveyard of buried emotion; its symptoms were clustered around the same fundamental terror...