Sentence examples for poignant vulnerability from inspiring English sources

Implicit in his always-on obnoxiousness is a poignant vulnerability.

Ms. Upshaw brings sublime vocal beauty and poignant vulnerability to her portrayal.

It's beautifully shot and a reminder how raw drama, poignant vulnerability and riveting characters define boxing at its best.

The film belongs to Liza Minnelli, whose poignant vulnerability is a counterweight to all the grim cynicism.

The cast over all was admirable, especially the distinguished German baritone Michael Volle, who brought the requisite gravitas and poignant vulnerability to his portrayal of the wise widower Hans Sachs, a shoemaker and the most beloved member of the guild of master singers in the medieval German city of Nürnberg, where the story is set.

Last month, in the new production of the "Ring" at the Bayreuth Festival, I was impressed by the Canadian soprano Adrianne Pieczonka's vocally exquisite Sieglinde, and she was just as fine in that role here, singing with lushly beautiful sound and poignant vulnerability.

And his playing, once so breezily self-assured, has assumed some poignant vulnerabilities.

"A young mother recently widowed, with another child on the way," People magazine said of her: "It's hard to imagine a more poignant description of vulnerability".

Homing in on that feature looks like a Spielbergian tic – but then it becomes something else, a poignant mark of vulnerability and humanity, especially as this mechanism becomes positive, associated with the creativity and ingenuity of Hugo's robot and Méliès's secret career.

Together they compose an elusive but also unusually poignant rumination on the vulnerability of memory in an age of mass media.

"Newsboy Asleep on Steps" (circa 1912) is a poignant image of exhaustion and vulnerability.