Sentence examples for poignant speech from inspiring English sources

Was he moved by Kanye West's poignant speech?

Cue poignant speech number two: "This anger that I feel will go to work.

Tobias has several intensely dramatic scenes, but his most poignant speech is the tale of a cat he once owned who seemed to change suddenly.

"I know you can't live on hope alone; but without hope, life is not worth living," he said during a particularly poignant speech.

This brief but poignant speech raised serious issues about the nature of authority that made all that had come before seem inconsequential.

"If I'm president, I want one thing to be known," Mr. Bradley said in a poignant speech about race delivered in New York last April.

The ultimate hopelessness of his position becomes clear to him at last, and he spells this out in two poignant speeches in Act V, "I have lived long enough" and "Tomorrow, and tomorrow, and tomorrow".

Contribute with Guardian Witness Barack Obama delivered one of the most poignant speeches of his presidency on Saturday, using the backdrop of Selma's Edmund Pettus Bridge to call for an end to the discrimination he said still casts "a long shadow" over America.

But even on an issue with overwhelming public support, Obama's poignant speeches, numerous campaign-style events, and the use of his new political arm (Organizing for Action) were no match for the N.R.A. It's even possible that his campaigning hardened opposition to the proposals and bolstered the N.R.A.'s efforts.

Catherine Stengel, a Delta Air Lines spokeswoman, said, "we pretty much do it in training; we go over what the speaking announcements are," though crew members are sometimes "allowed to tailor those announcements for special circumstances," among them the often poignant speeches some pilots made to passengers shortly after 9/11, she said.

But Mrs. Kolodi says the trip as well as the poignant speeches by veterans and conscientious objectors would not have the same meaning without knowing the history of Vietnam and having a clear picture of America in the 1950's, 60's and early 70's.