Sentence examples for poignant distance from inspiring English sources
Gerwig and Swanberg rely heavily on their cameraman, who sometimes gets close enough to celebrate their beautiful imperfections but usually keeps the onscreen couple at a poignant distance and in ambiguous equilibrium; their raw, highly personalized methods convey the sense that the lives depicted on-camera and those lived behind it are one.
His answer was yes, always (underlined), and the exchange is a poignant expression of distance and inadequacy.
The Warsaw summit will be a poignant reminder of the distance Poland has come in such a short period, from the shackles of Soviet oppression to a strong and ambitious ally.
As Lu valiantly tries ploy after ploy to penetrate Feng's memory loss — Gong's pinched features framing eyes that reflect both the confusion of the present and a past stolen — Zhang steers "Coming Home" toward a poignant study of immense distance in small spaces.
There's even a poignant piano figure on Song 4 while Distance is elegant and elegiacal.
In the three decades since, our country has traveled an enormous distance, and today is a poignant and compelling marker of that.
But the lyrics on the "song version" really make it more poignant, as if you're both acknowledging and distancing yourselves from the era at the same time.
At a distance of a few inches, the characters' poignant, if elliptical exchanges, become legible.
With time and distance, crazy time will be just another poignant scene in the rear view mirror of your life.
Finally, "The Cuban Swimmer," by Milcha Sanchez-Scotellsells the poignant and hilarious tale of a girl in a long-distance swimming competition who is being followed by a boatload of her ragtag family, perilously weighed down by cultural baggage.
A longtime Keats scholar and chair of the Keats Foundation, Roe writes with clear feeling about the poet's tragically short life, rendering an especially poignant portrait of Keats, at thirteen, reading "as if pacing himself to go the distance".
