Grímur Hákonarson's Rams (Soda, 15) is a somewhat more tender arthouse option, albeit one that hides behind a particularly Icelandic cold front: this story of estranged sheep-farming brothers, forced into collaboration by an outbreak of livestock disease, gradually thaws into a poignant, off-kilter appreciation of kinship.
Now, the band has announced the release of a limited edition box set to commemorate that journey with a series of work capturing the striking live moments and poignant off-stage interactions of one of the world's most enigmatic bands.
Dick D. Zigun, executive director of Coney Island USA, which runs a sideshow, the annual Mermaid parade and the Coney Island Museum, and who helped organize the funeral, called the event a poignant send-off for the old Boardwalk businesses and a symbol of a new, emerging Coney Island.
Better use is made of the new opener, "If You Can Find Me, I'm Here" from "Evening Primrose"; "Ah, but Underneath," a vampy self-assessment written for Diana Rigg's Phyllis in the London production of "Follies"; and "Rainbows," a poignant face-off between dreams and disillusionment, written for an as-yet-unproduced film of "Into the Woods".
Yet the most poignant send-off of the weekend will be at Villa Park, where club captain Stilian Petrov will lead out the Villa players and their families for the traditional lap of appreciation at the end of Saturday's home match against Chelsea, following his retirement as he continues to battle acute leukaemia.
The book is full of wonderful descriptions of how this manic yet poignant clown beat off competition from talented animals (the dancing horse, the singing duck, the mathematical pig) as well as from infant prodigies in frilly costumes, to become the "supreme comic being, part-child, part-nightmare".
The journalist gained popularity on Twitter for firing off poignant tweet storms that included the names and personal details of other journalists and academic colleagues who were imprisoned days after the coup in July 2016.
What Kemp describes as "one of the supreme moments in Tippett's music" occurs towards the end of the Part, as the soprano's aria melts into the spiritual "Steal away": "a [transition] so poignant as to set off that instant shock of recognition that floods the eyes with emotion... although the soprano continues to grieve in a floating melisma, the spiritual comes as a relief as well as a release".
He was a great for a bit, but he was seemingly gone in an instant, and by the time the game ended in a dramatic 4-3 Dodgers victory Tuesday, almost as poignant as Trayce Thompson's walk-off homer was the fact that Urias had to walk off five innings earlier.
That he entirely succeeds honors the unforced gravity and grace of this nattily attired man of principle, a rhetorician who comes alive in a court of law but elsewhere gives off the poignant feel of a man shadowed by loss.
Trump is known for brushing his detractors off with poignant put-downs that are, by design, almost impossible to refute in the heat of a debate.
