The sculptures powerfully touch on the smothering constrictions of femininity that limit so many women, as well as the endless, compulsory need to buy more, be more, be better. .
But I find this intimate and peculiar collection to be powerfully affecting and touching.
Watching someone die brings us powerfully in touch with how brief — yet intense — each life here is.
"On the Waterfront" (1954), a defiant response to his critics, was the first movie that Kazan directed after the testimony and the first to put him powerfully in touch with his own feelings.
She was followed by Pink, who swung above the crowd on a wire, singing, or maybe energetically pantomiming, "Try" — it's hard to believe she could belt out that powerfully while hanging upside down — before touching down and doing a killer duet of "Just Give Me a Reason" with Nate Ruess.
Then begins the fight, which may be of low intensity (consisting of interlocking the horns and pushing each other in a standing position) or high intensity (consisting of their dropping to their knees and straining against each other powerfully, trying to remain in contact while their foreheads are nearly touching the ground).
The movie powerfully revisits a theme touched on last year in the bitter comic drama "Up in the Air": the devastating impact of sudden downsizing on corporate executives who have lived by the treacherous adage "You are what you do".
There's No Denying Denial: Jonathan Rauch's touching story about living in the closet for 25 years connects powerfully with readers.
At one moment the man's hand keeps almost touching the woman's hand (he seems to trace a halo about her) as she slowly, powerfully, steps through one changing arabesque phrase.
A familiar but still touching story of a parent's descent into Alzheimer's disease; the deeper Miller's father sinks into confusion, the more powerfully candid her writing becomes.
Still, it was the performance — urgent, on the edge, sometimes wild, sometimes hauntingly restrained — that clearly touched the audience so powerfully on Wednesday.
