While we were campaigning in San Antonio, the brother of Willie Velásquez — the late founder of the Southwest Voter Registration and Education Project, which has registered millions of Latinos since the 1970s — explained voter apathy to me in simple, but poignant, terms: people don't vote when no one asks them to.
In "The Balkan Express: Fragments From the Other Side of the War," she described, in poignant terms, how the war stripped Yugoslavs of their individuality and plunged the land into ever-accelerating cycles of destruction and despair.
It would be hard to conceive of a more pointed version of realpolitik, and the term is doubly poignant in light of the outcomes we are seeing today.
Following "Saturday", his enjoyable but overly safe previous novel, this master of fiction has written a poignant new book that in terms of its diminutive size though not its emotional range is reminiscent of his Man Booker-prize-winning "Amsterdam .It is July 1962.
Britain's most important and controversial postwar prime minister has been recast – rather like Judi Dench's Iris Murdoch 10 years ago – into a bewildered old lady cherished in dramatic terms for her poignant vulnerability and decline, rather than for the mature achievements of her pomp.
Gill Powell For a Dancer by Jackson Browne "I don't remember losing track of you / You were always dancing in and out of view" My mum always thought this song was beautiful, a poignant meditation on coming to terms with death.
I'm as happy as anyone to have the hero-with-a-thousand-faces back to bring order to the Seven Kingdoms, but there was something very poignant about Melisandre coming to terms with her lack of holy exemption from the rules the rest of us are subject to.
Even the use of the term "buffer zone" carried poignant echoes of the Lebanon experience.
Cut Loose offers a poignant look at how the long-term unemployed struggle in today's unfair economy to support their families, rebuild their lives, and overcome the shame and self-blame they deal with on a daily basis.
It's poignant that even as a former two-term president, Bush should feel the need to strut the way he does.
"Molly: An American Girl" is poignant but carefully avoids difficult choices and long-term disappointment.
