Sentence examples for poignant memorial from inspiring English sources

Should it remain in place, unrevised, as a kind of poignant memorial by default?

It is a poignant memorial to her and to a forgotten era in the forgotten borough.

Probably the most poignant memorial I ever witnessed is the Children's Memorial at Yad Vashem, Israel's Holocaust museum.

Mr. Nauman created the fountain before Mr. Young's death, but now it serves as a poignant memorial, with the streaming water like a rain of tears.

In an unremarkable business park outside the city of Ann Arbor, in Michigan, stands a poignant memorial to humanity's shattered dreams.

The portraits amount, at first glance, to a poignant memorial, honoring the grace and brio of a mother who dominates most every frame.

They have also persuaded congregations to lend poignant memorials.

So images that once celebrated life and love and friendship now also serve as poignant memorials, and the gallery is full of ghosts.

One of the most poignant memorials is the Vietnam Veterans Memoriall with its 58,220 names; another is the collection of simple plaques affixed to the walls of Paris, each bearing the name of a person killed at that spot during the liberation in August 1944.

With remarkable energy, he went on to produce 20 books in 40 years, most notably big heaves about America's war machine but also voluminous studies of our news media and auto industry, and poignant memorials to the civil rights marchers of the '60s and the fallen firefighters of 9/11.

One of the most poignant memorials was a cartoon showing his writing desk surrounded by characters from his novels.