10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «POIGNANCE»
Discover the use of
poignance in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to
poignance and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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Gird Yourselves For This Great Effort: Tales of
Poignance ...
Gird Yourselves For This Great Effort is intended to be read as a story of resistance that happens to be true. The heroes of the story are the people of the Shenandoah Valley who hoped for and dared all in their struggle for independence.
2
Blazing the Path: Fifty Years of Things Fall Apart
2. Achebe's. Children: Resonance,. Poignance. and. Grandeur. Annie Gagiano
celebration of the fiftieth anniversary of its publication, this essay is also an
academic reconsideration of what Things Fall Apart communicates to us as
Africans ...
Chima Anyadike, Kehinde A. Ayoola, 2013
Poignance. of. the. Easter. Story. Caught. by. Rembrandt's. Pen. Quickly but
carefully the blunt pen moved over the paper, chiseling out the tender, sorrowful
image of Christ's descent from the Cross (above). Rembrandt was re-creating a ...
4
Swami Vivekananda, a Study on Aesthetics
Vivekananda urges for such an essence of humanism which indicates the
aesthetic poignance of mankind. This alone will allow every one to ignite his '
inner light'- antarjyoti— which will baptise and enrich him to see God in everyone.
Tell me there's not some poignance tomyethnos. “WHAT? Poign...What in the...
Boy! GOT DAMN. POIGNANCE! You going to show them Russians some of that
poignance?” By thetime theRussians come,Ifigure I, like you and the Russians,
will ...
6
Lawrence Durrell: Conversations
I hunt among facts and only seem to recognize what I would call truth by one
quality — its poignance. If I attack the job like a sportsman it's because I know that
finally one can't will the matter — it is simply given to one, the work. Of course one
...
Lawrence Durrell, Earl G. Ingersoll, 1998
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Strict Wildness: Discoveries in Poetry and History
The poignance is in the vanishing. The poetry is in the poignance. While
watching a boy, the speaker of “Seelied” is female: a strange female loner with
whom George, the outsider, partly identifies. Already in the witch poem “The
Stranger,” ...
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Merriam-Webster's Collegiate Thesaurus
... rhyme, rune, verse poignance n syn PATHOS, poignancy poignancy n syn
PATHOS, poignance poignant adj I syn PUNGENT, peppery, piquant, racy,
snappy, spicy, zesty ant dull 2 syn MOVING 2, affecting, impressive, touching rel
agitating, ...
Merriam-Webster, Inc, 1988
This added a particular poignance to our last long weekend together, although as
is so often the case in life, it is only really possible to savour such poignance after
the events have finished telling their story. When I returned to Edinburgh there ...
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The Fate of American Poetry
Then the poet tries to resolve the loss in a moment of emotional poignance or wry
acceptance that renders the entire lyric event an evocative metaphor for some
general sense of mystery about the human condition.10 Altieri is exactly right,
and ...
10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «POIGNANCE»
Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term
poignance is used in the context of the following news items.
Review: A delightful 'Return Flight' from Pittsburgh New Music …
Caprice and poignance, urgency and revelry, all were on offer Saturday night as the group, led by artistic director Kevin Noe, played the ... «Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, Jul 15»
Pay disparity between male, female actors frustrating: Radhika Apte
Also read: 'Masaan' review: Passion and poignance in equal measure "Female actors are paid less than their male counterparts. This exists ... «Economic Times, Jul 15»
Masaan Movie Review
MASAAN HAS PASSION AND POIGNANCE IN EQUAL MEASURE Story: Masaan, a desolate place, follows two heart-breaking tales; that of ... «Times of India, Jul 15»
Phillipsburg, Washington ready to offer summer fix for wrestling fans …
Admission is a $5 donation to the successful Pin Cancer wrestling charity, which has special poignance at Phillipsburg this year. The Stateliner ... «lehighvalleylive.com, Jul 15»
Paper Towns
That poignance turns out to be essential in setting the stage for what Quentin will find at the end of his journey. The best thing about giving up ... «Beliefnet, Jul 15»
Review: A HISTORY OF RADNESS, How Rock And Roll Can Save …
The humor is very dry and understated, and it even manages to achieve poignance -- I loved the shot of a forlorn cello player walking away into ... «TwitchFilm, Jul 15»
'Into the Woods' at Toby's Dinner Theatre
A neighborhood Witch sets them off on a quest to break their spell of infertility, giving what follows added poignance to modern-day moms and ... «DC Metro Theater Arts, Jul 15»
Performances Live and On Screen at Guild Hall
Sue Costello's show "is the best combination of genuine poignance and rollicking humor since the pioneering stage work of Lily Tomlin and ... «East Hampton Star, Jul 15»
Newsies, reviewed: Disney's new musical a derivative delivery
The newsies include a disabled kid, for poignance, and a smartass sub-adolescent, for cuteness – though, to be fair, the show doesn't try to jerk ... «National Post, Jul 15»
'Matilda' brings Roald Dahl's strange world to stage
Poignance also drives the villainy of Trunchbull, who was mercilessly bullied in school, it seems. "She's not really a villain. She doesn't wake up ... «Daily Democrat, Jul 15»
