Sentence examples for piercing emotion from inspiring English sources

Their effect is cumulative: a viewer leaves the show not feeling anger so much as the simpler and more piercing emotion of sadness.

Rather, it proceeds as a series of sudden, breathtaking punches to the gut, with moments of piercing emotion — not to mention boisterously funny comedy — tumbling forth in a welter spread across its four acts.

But this austerity is compelling, and the rare moments of piercing emotion are transfixing, as when Nagg's shouts finally fail to summon Nell from her dustbin – his shouts turning first into a wail, then to a piercing scream – or in the only moment when Clov and Hamm sing together, admitting their reliance on each other.

Kurosawa achieves the piercing emotion and poetry of the Italian neorealists, but by opposite means: he doesn't make the camera disappear; instead, from the first view of the hero's X-rays, he deploys his camera so sharply and unerringly that it seems to take X-rays of the spirit.

Not just Nouvel and Diaghilev but many people at this time craved strange and piercing emotions.

Kurosawa achieves the piercing emotions and poetry of the Italian neorealists by opposite means: he doesn't make the camera disappear.

Kurosawa's influences, especially in Tiger, are heavily rooted in Noh and kabuki theater, traditions that emphasize stylized theatrics along with primally piercing emotions.

But her logic did not pierce the emotion in the room.

The next two hours follow the entwined, contrapuntal progress of their relationship and their careers, punctuated by more songs and ending in a swirl of piercing and complex emotion.

The instruments sometimes cushion the vocal line with mystical, piercing harmonies, until emotions break loose and the music becomes fiendish.

Grief is the most vivid, piercing and transcendent of emotions.