Sentence examples for poignant idea from inspiring English sources

Mr. Miller made Rigoletto a bartender, a poignant idea.

But they were fired up by a shared belief that journalism could help make the world better, a chokingly poignant idea in these shockingly cynical times.

The poignant idea of teenage girls' stitching toys while worrying about soldiers' amputations is the subject of a narrow-bore exhibition that opens on Friday at the Brooklyn Museum's Herstory Gallery.

Enter Chris Tepper, 29, and Paul Kelterborn, 33, friends and fledgling urban planners with a poignant idea: Refurbish the triangle as a gemlike neighborhood park and memorial to those who lost their lives to AIDS and to the New Yorkers who cared for them before they died.

Still, there was something poignant about the idea of the proto-cougar Blanche finally getting her happy ending, being married in that wilted old ball gown, dancing the Varsouviana, starry-eyed at her besotted groom.

Yes, I'm sure Slavoj Zizek would have something to say about the capitalist call to arms that is the Pokémon Trainer's edict, "Gotta Catch 'Em All!", but there's also something rather poignant about the idea of raising and training your very own Pokémon friend.

Mr. Baker states flatly, "I am a product of both the Emperor and the slain," a statement that is a poignant turn on the idea of two worlds.

"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.

Perhaps the most poignant illustration of this idea is Mr. Gober's "Untitled Candle" (1991), a sculpture consisting of an unlighted candle (a classic symbol for fleeting time in traditional still-life painting) standing in a melted wax base covered with hair.

"Then it will be permanently saved by the Imperial War Museum – I think the right place for it to be - and something that marks the fact that everybody has found it so moving, so poignant, and such a brilliant idea," he added.

In wrapping a play of ideas around a poignant coming-of-age story, he occasionally makes his points a little too directly.