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The plague of dashed expectations is all the more poignant at a university with a rich basketball lineage that includes the game's inventor, Dr. James Naismith, as the founding coach, and the former N.B.A. star Wilt Chamberlain.
This formulation is particularly poignant at a time when material independence will be elusive for many college students, who are coming of age during a recession, with onerous debt, and may actually go home to their parents for much of their twenties in order to make ends meet.
The scene seemed surreal, yet oddly poignant: at a silent, deserted intersection in the center of Midtown Manhattan, beneath bland corporate logos and brick office buildings, hundreds of Muslims knelt on a sprawling tarpaulin, faced due east and commenced the midday call to prayer.
Based on a play by Tarell Alvin McCraney, the film is poetic and poignant, at once a reality check about the state of black America and an intensely personal, almost dreamy, meditation on desire, identity and friendship.
Weeks shy of his 35th birthday, he responded with a poignant soliloquy at a news conference, saying: "I know the facts.
After Lidice and Kiel came Dresden – a controversial and poignant twinning at a time when the devastation of the blitz was still fresh in the mind of citizens of both places.
"It was a very poignant incident at a key moment in time, when new thinking was going on," said Jay Truman, who founded the Downwinders nonprofit group in the 1970s to advocate for people living downwind of military testing sites, especially nuclear ones, in Utah and Nevada.
For close to 50 years, Koch has created a body of work whose characteristic quality is a sense of playfulness that becomes poignant at the turn of a line.
She is a complicated person, alienating and poignant at the same time.
It's certainly one of the most poignant pictures (violently poignant at times) within the canon of film noir, a genre haunted by doomed love.
"It's not just the imagery behind manly blokes holding banners supporting an issue which is so poignant at the moment.
