Sentence examples for small poignant from inspiring English sources
His fascination with, and sympathy for, so-called ordinary people and their small, poignant plights still seems inexhaustible.
Eivind Opsvik, a young Norwegian bassist and bandleader, has an unusual gift for writing small, poignant pieces of music.
Mr. Opsvik, a young Norwegian bassist and bandleader, has an unusual gift for writing small, poignant pieces of music.
(Ratliff) * EIVIND OPSVIK 'OVERSEAS' (Wednesday) Mr. Opsvik is a young Norwegian bassist and bandleader with an unusual gift for writing small, poignant pieces of music.
'A.W.O.L' is an 'Eleanor Rigby'-esque tale of loneliness, in which Wyatt's voice works some small poignant wonders, while for 'Be Serious', it becomes the long-bearded voice of the prophet in the wilderness of a jazz arrangement.
The ageless mezzo-soprano Rosalind Elias had never heard a note of Stephen Sondheim's score for "Follies" when her agent first approached her about auditioning for the small, poignant role of Heidi Schiller, which she is now playing to acclaim in the popular revival at the Marquis Theater on Broadway.
Small yet poignant stories connect to larger issues, such as growing inequality, that affect everyone.
Every year about this time, a small but poignant health care transaction occurs in doctors' offices across the country: a few patients give their doctors holiday gifts.
The sign was a small but poignant reminder of how hundreds of years of beer brewing in Nuremberg — a city that was 90 percent destroyed during the war — linked past and present.
A small and poignant bronze sculpture of a young man called Craig – who became homeless after serving in Afghanistan – will greet visitors to a new exhibition to raise awareness and money for the charity Crisis.
You might assume that an anthology with a title like this is going to be a genteel affair, perhaps because when we think of the form we often imagine a sort of archetypal New Yorker short story, which tends to follow the formula of Small and Poignant Domestic Events Hinting at a Dark Truth.
