Safran Foer's undoubtedly poignant ending feels particularly unearned; it leaves you thinking he found a smartly relevant pitch for what would otherwise have been a story about childhood bereavement with a different, more properly personal event at its centre.
As Manchester City went down with barely a fight and their supporters no doubt took comfort from the fact that a host of stellar talents will soon return to the side, it felt rather poignant to look down the team sheet and see Micah Richards's name among the substitutes.
"Happiness as unpindownable as a louse," as Blanche puts it at the end of Donoghue's poignant novel, "you feel the tickle of its passage but your fingers close on nothing".
He's being droll again, but the remark feels poignant.
The relationship between the two dancers feels poignant, shifting subtly between ease and tension, ebb and flow.
Thus opens "Sty of the Blind Pig" at Hartford Theaterworks, a solid, poignant production that feels like a tableau vivant of saddened people left behind.
The fact that his new album references the album that laid down the Babyface blueprint feels poignant now people are rediscovering his sound.
As much as I appreciated Mr. Rouve's dry deadpan detective writer and Ms. Quinton's seductive, occasionally poignant pinup, I felt continually nudged by the movie's winking self-awareness.
These aren't the first black celebrity reality television shows to emphasize mildness, but the recent spate feels poignant given that many of the most popular offerings in this category have been of the more sensationalist variety.
"To approach [happiness] the other way, and see it as an absence of disturbances is helpful," he says, and although his words have the same weightless equanimity as always, the idea feels poignant.
