Sentence examples for poignant encounters from inspiring English sources

On Monday and Tuesday he was allowed to say goodbye to friends and family, in poignant encounters that were subject to the prison's macabre choreography.

Interspersed with his bizarre and often poignant encounters with the city's Blacks are two long letters from his grandparents, estranged since Thomas's conception.

The long first act involves Justine's marriage (her betrothed is played by Alexander Skarsgard, from the HBO show "True Blood") and her sometimes funny, sometimes poignant encounters with her family, including her mother (Charlotte Rampling) and father (John Hurt).

It resists imposing a grander narrative on the crash, sticking loyally to the pain and numbing tedium of its aftermath: official briefings, airline grief counsellors, poignant encounters with other bereaved relatives who are at once intimates and total strangers.

"Guess what, I turned 18 the other day," said Ms. Hemingway, in what was framed as a poignant encounter.

Later, there is a poignant encounter between a hair dryer and a blind kitten, which flails its paws at the heat, wind and noise.

Think of the elusive fragment Cold by David Mamet, which in its restive, poignant encounter between two men in the subway could serve to sum up his entire oeuvre.

In the last chapter, he fast-forwards the action to 2009, to reveal the characters' fates and dramatise a poignant encounter between Thomas and a woman from Expo 58.

Some of the best of these made use of his wartime experiences: "For Esmé with Love and Squalor" (1950) describes a U.S. soldier's poignant encounter with two British children; "A Perfect Day for Bananafish" (1948) concerns the suicide of the sensitive, despairing veteran Seymour Glass.

("Please tell me: are they pubescent or shaved?") But the documentary's strongest moments are also its most touching, like Mr. Anderson's poignant encounter with his idol John Ford and his powerful crush on Richard Harris, the star of his first feature, "This Sporting Life".

Along the way, Luke develops a crush on a sweet and attractive receptionist named Maria (Sabryn Rock) and has an extremely poignant encounter with his birth mother (Lisa Ryder).