Sentence examples for poignant vision from inspiring English sources

In ET he distilled an entire career's worth of themes, preoccupations and pleasures into one poignant vision.

In the event it was the role of his lifetime – and one that gives us a poignant vision of how he might have grown old.

It's a poignant vision of a life in which some of the vexing existential concerns of young adulthood have finally been quieted.

When she found "this poignant vision of coral abandoned in the basement" she started to think about objects washed up by the sea — and how "everything under the ocean is invisible to the naked eye".

But as creaky as the movie seemed, Crosby, Holden and, most surprisingly, Kelly (who won an Oscar for her performance) created a poignant vision of people with the power to wound one another irrevocably.

At its Dostoevsky-inspired conclusion, Carthage is, perhaps, darker than We Were the Mulvaneys, but what it attains is a profound and poignant vision of American guilt, and its potential for some kind of absolution.

In contrast to these public spaces there are poignant private visions, idyllic comfort buildings conjured up in times of stress.

The Coens' poignant and elliptical vision of New York's 1960s folk scene, which stars Carey Mulligan, Oscar Isaac and John Goodman, was a fitting winner for a festival that began life as a celebration of indie film-making in America's north east.

Most poignant is the vision of Claire observing her young and foolish self (Michelle Veintimilla) when they sing and dance "In the Forest Again".

A window in, rather than the full picture, can often provide the most poignant, inviting and repelling vision.

The case of Terry Edwards is a poignant reminder that this vision is still a noble aspiration, though far from being fully realized.