This weekend saw one of those poignant front-page contrasts of emergent triumph and final tragedy that leaves fans of sports and music with exuberant joy and deep sorrow.
One developer after another has forgotten a pungent, poignant stretch of Front Street in Lower Manhattan, rather than try to weave new buildings among landmark 19th-century brick counting houses.
But Drew, an exemplary if earnest mentor, had them digging deep and telling their poignant stories in front of the others, teaching them that failing was a key to learning, that hard work could be reward in itself, that "fucking about" could bear fruit if channelled in the right way.
Nyakong was not actually a subject in Mellia's portrait series, but she came to the exhibition opening and gave a poignant speech in front of nearly a hundred people, with an emphasis on religion saving her from drowning in the memories of her past trauma.
– Glenn Collins Active History: A widow's poignant inscriptions inside the front cover of the 1930 edition of the Good Housekeeping Institute's "Meals Tested, Tasted and Approved: Favorite Recipes and Menus From Our Kitchens to Yours" inspire a historian to reflect on what old cookbooks can tell us about the women who owned them.
Australian nurses serve at Gallipoli and on the Western Front in this poignant novel.
Your poignant report from "devastated" Grozny (front page, Feb. 15) recalls other historic brutalities.
He saw himself as a political artist and one of his most poignant works can be found in front of the Rothko Chapel in Houston, Texas.
(Is there some kind of frequent flier program? Kidding! But if there is.... ) That front bar area was poignant: all those strivers with Blackberries but without reservations, waiting for a tap on the shoulder that would never come.
But by high school, events were already spinning out of control: an arsonist burned our school down about a month before graduation and we had a poignant, disheveled, song-less affair in front of the cindery remains.
