Sentence examples for poignant setting from inspiring English sources

But its most poignant setting, perhaps, was the main focus of Browback's speech: public education.

Geneva is a poignant setting for the UN, the faded grandeur of the lakeside buildings of the Palais des Nations redolent of the failures of the League of Nations in the interwar period.

How I Live Now by Meg Rosoff Puffin £6.99, pp211 Meg Rosoff's impressive debut blurs the boundary between youth and adult fiction, the result being a compelling exploration of the teenage psyche, in which the backdrop of the Third World War offers a poignant setting for the chronicle of protagonist Daisy's coming of age.

As Christians move into the week that most defines our faith, a week of remembering and reliving Jesus' death and resurrection, this idea of a broken system provides an poignant setting for us to consider the ongoing significance of what happened to him nearly 2,000 years ago.

The environmental-themed works were particularly poignant, set in an area that is choked with coal dust.

Photograph: Spencer Platt/Getty Images This poignant set of found photographs was published in this weekend's Observer.

It's a powerful, poignant set, with McLennan's effectively understated vocals matched against his classically influenced guitar work and harmonica, with sparse, effective backing including violin, harmonium and cello.

It's a poignant set-up, but developed in a curiously detached manner: Teresa, and the men she encounters, are observed in all their naked vulnerability, and it's hard to see what Seidl makes of the sex tourism trade.

In perhaps the most poignant set piece in the year of the protester, Ms. Vallejo addressed a dense ring of photographers and reporters in August while kneeling within a peace sign made of spent tear-gas shells, where she calmly mused about how many educational improvements could have been bought with the $100,000 worth of munitions at her feet.

It seems poignant now, setting aside his past brutality, that Tyson should have his face covered in make-up while his daughter croons: "Don't worry, Daddy, she's gonna make you look pretty!" Tyson looks bashful while the make-up artist powders his tattoo.

It's a poignant work, set in the suburb where he grew up, and centered around the theme of teen angst.