Matthews relays the story of Bobby quietly attending McCarthy's funeral with sympathy and
poignance.
Nobody Checks the Time When They're Happy, a collection of short stories by Heekyung Eun, peers into the lives of various South Koreans and forms its own small universe of
poignance and melancholy, wonderfully interspersed with offbeat humor.
As it's Cork City in opposition, the act of remembrance will have added
poignance, for his father's passing came just six weeks after Folan had joined the Leesiders.
One survivor, a young political staffer in New York, described her assailant's dismissal of her will with particular
poignance:
It was the simplest of gestures but one with added
poignance after days of so much pain.
If one lives in the Last Days, one's actions, one's very life, take on historical meaning and no small measure of
poignance," wrote the University of Vermont lecturer Eric Zencey in 1988.
Amidst frequent power cuts within and long queues at petrol stations around the city, the day's second session, titled "Unbuckling the Pakistani economy's straitjacket", gained further
poignance.
The immigrant experience takes on a new
poignance in his hands.
A biographer finds
poignance. The great men in Coles's life repeatedly let him down.
From The Notebook ( 1996) to his latest, The Longest Ride ( Hachette, ` 350), two things remain unchanged -- his immaculate prose and undying need for
poignance.
Belief in the value of white American civilization is at the core of Ford's westerns, and the
poignance of his career-the trajectory from, Drums Along the Mohawk to The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance--arises from its gradual erosion (though the disillusionment was already implicit in Stagecoach).
Although initially, I imagine, of particular
poignance to immigrants, refugees, ex-pat communities, international students, anthropologists, etc., reading this book made me aware that this is a question I had rarely asked anyone about, myself included.
The topics include creation and covenant in the theology of Paul, knowing oneself in an age of ecological concern, Teilhard and the limits to growth, seeking the presence of God in a radically changing world, and promise and
poignance in the legacies of Pope John-Paul II and Pope Benedict XVI.
Thus, a good ghazal gathers more meaning and
poignance than many more obviously sophisticated poems.
