We stop frequently as he highlights the figurative elements in David Hancock's photographs of the cave paintings and their stories – curious, poignant, some wryly humorous – of first contact between explorers, miners, hunters and the Indigenous Bininj people.
Act II, however, does move on to much darker, more poignant songs, some of which deal directly with the experience of being elderly and the impending end of life.
Nothing in this movie is quite as poignant as some of the scenes in Wall-E or Up, but all of this movie was better than any of the other yuck-fests out there, excepting, perhaps, the first Shrek and Kung-Fu Panda.
Nine songs, some poignant, some joyous, the portrait of a life.
There's some poignant quality of human emotion that resonates through the swirling, murky drones.
Those inside the courtroom were rewarded yesterday with some poignant glimpses of the Lennons' last months together.
Yet if the signs are removed, the neighborhood will be the poorer, having lost part of its character and some poignant symbols of its history.
He examines the factors that have de-skilled much of the US workforce, not least failures in public education, and tells some poignant stories of the economic squeeze that is laying waste to the lives of so many.
You showed the poignant reality of some hospitalized veterans at the Brooklyn veterans hospital during the Fourth of July celebration ("In a U.S. Hospital, Lonely Ex-Soldiers Get No Bands and Few Visitors," news article, July 5).
All the way through the film, from the opening titles to closing credits, there is a passionate, encyclopaedic love of music, combined with a disconcerting sense that this love is a kind of autism or arrested development, a symptom of some poignant deprivation of real love.
