Sentence examples for poignant close to from inspiring English sources

It's a poignant close to a spectacularly moving evening.

Romain also strikes up an unusual relationship — to say more would be to ruin a plot development that is both breathtakingly poignant and very close to ridiculous — with a truck-stop waitress, played by Valeria Bruni-Tedeschi.

Deftly poignant and meaningful, as close to perfection as possible.

It turns an already poignant song into something close to heartbreaking.

This double truth about existence is one that the novel was perhaps invented to witness, and that "The Interestings" witnesses with something close to poignant perfection.

The powerful and poignant film was later screened at a cinema close to the balcony from which Richard Hoorocks jumped into the river.

Instead, writes Ali Allawi in the poignant closing pages of this book, when Saddam Hussein's supposed weapons of mass destruction failed to materialise, other justifications became necessary.

And the lovers of the fifth duet (Anne Plamondon and Andrew Giday) were helter-skelter squirrels until a poignant closing image.

Anyone could have done that interview, but the anchor's poignant close-up view set it apart from similar snapshots a dozen other reporters offered.

Bathed in golden light and laced with poignant close-ups of chubby-cheeked young orphans, "Cider House Rules," Mr. Hallstrom's adaptation of John Irving's epic novel, kept audiences so busy sniffling into their handkerchiefs that some seemed hardly to notice the film's darker themes: abortion, addiction and incest.

But the album doesn't really stop there, because its bonus track, "The Wrestler" (theme of Darren Aronofsky's flick starring Mickey Rourke, winner of a Golden Globe for Best Original Song) serves as the poignant closer to...Dream.