Sentence examples for poignant effect from inspiring English sources

But he uses his appearance to poignant effect in his portrayal.

For Mr. Schundler, however, the most poignant effect of the Sept. 11 attacks may have been an indirect one.

Tony could wield a pen to poignant effect, especially in the service of justice and the rule of law.

In addition, the customary Greenaway preoccupation with lists and numbers dominates and mischievously derails the main plot on numerous occasions to humorous, satirical and poignant effect.

When Ariel, Prospero's sprite, replicates the bumbling mischief of Puck, the madcap mix-ups of "Midsummer" are reprised to both humorous and poignant effect.

Sometimes, his mind weaves these threads together to poignant effect, as when Ed finds himself standing across the street from where Mary sits in a car, unable to cross over.

Of them 18 (Opus 50, 54, 55, 64) were composed during the time (c. 1786 90) Haydn was in close contact with Mozart and are characterized by an increasing use of chromaticism to produce poignant effects.

Rather than display the massive headshots of the narrators of the War Story exhibition alongside their poignant personal effects on the ground floor, the curators have hung them high.

I soon realized that combining faces and voices with poignant digital effects would spread awareness in an innovative way.

Characteristically, Draycott presents the human figure in transition from selfhood to artistic representation; this is done to poignant and humorous effect in "The Girls' Book of Model Making", where she shows how: Girls then wore their hair in shining helmets and their brothers rushed across the lawn to swim out from the shadows, from the stifling willows, between the wars.

She puts pen to paper and innocently writes her TV hero a fan letter, creating a poignant, unfolding ripple effect in the lives of these characters and beyond.