"Bleeding and breathing pain" — such a poignantly sad and tragically accurate description of a country on the brink of something.
But Barber's keen sensitivity toward Agee's poignantly sad recollection of childhood makes this work seem utterly authentic.
There was something so poignantly sad about the contrast between the Victorian and the modern day settings.
This fantasy universe, sometimes poignantly sad but more often laughingly joyous, was childlike in its apparent simpleness yet strangely sophisticated in its perceptiveness.
It has left me poignantly sad.
The works that great composers have written to assuage suffering are miraculously varied, from the poignantly intimate, gently sad choral work "Seven Last Words of Christ on the Cross," by the German Baroque composer Heinrich Schütz, to the gargantuan wail of abject loss and defiant affirmation that is Verdi's Requiem.
"Brother Is Gone" is poignantly styled as a sad folktale and features a haunting mandolin riff, a rueful tone, and wounded vocals.
But offstage, bereft of eyeliner and trash-drag couture, Mac looks almost poignantly human with a bald head, sad eyes and a demure smile.
It concludes poignantly: "Then the downpour ceased, to my sharp sad pain, And the glass that had screened our forms before Flew up, and out she sprang to her door: I should have kissed her if the rain Had lasted a minute more".
As befits her age, Yoko's main concerns here are memory, change, departure and healing, as she contemplates the flux between vapour, water and ice in the title-track, attempts to reverse the negative energy of sad songs in "Healing", and, best of all, muses poignantly in "Memory of Footsteps" about the way in which seemingly insignificant memories can expand to fill one's experience.
Part of Hamilton's genius is that he makes George so acutely and poignantly present to the reader: we see him vividly, this large, sad-eyed, shambling man who takes such innocent pleasure in things (a round of 68 on a Brighton golf course, a cigarette card, a stray cat) and yet remains so oddly mysterious.
