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The same event is referenced again at the end of Episode 26 and the series ends with Laurence Olivier uttering the poignant word, " Remember ".
The most poignant event during this period was the murder of Carper's personal scheduler, Anne Marie Fahey and the eventual conviction of Thomas J. Capano for the crime.

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In the 1986 movie The Mission the guilty conscience and penance of the slave trader Mendoza is made more poignant by the haunting oboe music of Ennio Morricone (" On Earth as it is in Heaven ") The song Sweet Lullaby by Deep Forest is based on a traditional Baegu lullaby from the Solomon Islands called " Rorogwela " in which a young orphan is comforted as an act of conscience by his older brother.
* Osceola, Häuptling der Seminole-Indianer ( 1963 ) by Ernie Hearting, poignant novel in German based on historical sources.
The drawings are usually drawn on computer and are known for their simplistic style, and their poignant and sometimes unexpected take on the phrases on which they are based.

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This prohibition on love has an especially poignant relation to art ; ;
More important is the simple human point that all men suffer, and that it is a kind of anthropological-religious pride on the part of the Jew to believe that his suffering is more poignant than mine or anyone else's.
The co-dependence between the striatum and substantia nigra can be seen in this way: when the substantia nigra is electrically stimulated, no movement occurs ; however, the symptoms of nigral degeneration due to Parkinson's is a poignant example of the substantia nigra's influence on movement.
More challengingly for the production team, some significant but unforeseen events require scenes to be rewritten and rerecorded at short notice, such as the death of Princess Margaret ( particularly poignant because she had appeared as herself on the programme ), the World Trade Center attacks, and the 2005 London bombings.
In the personal sense, Sir John Kerr himself became the real victim of the Dismissal, and history has accorded a brutal if poignant truth to Whitlam's declaration on the steps of Parliament House on 11 November 1975: " Well may we say ' God Save the Queen ' – because nothing will save the Governor-General.
Containing an unprecedented sixty-six oils and fifty drawings from the Netherlands, and poignant excerpts from the artist's letters, it was a major public success and became " a precursor to the hold van Gogh has to this day on the contemporary imagination ".
Nowhere amongst us is the mystic relation of the seed-corn of Demeter, whose poignant grief for her daughter threatens to bring famine on mankind ( Hymn to Cer.
* The Bloody Bridge-Although the name evokes images of battles fought on this site, it is not known from where exactly this beautiful yet wild coastal area derived its poignant name, although the 1641 rebellion is often thought to be the impetus.
The memorial's location is especially poignant as it lies on the eastward route from the town which allied soldiers would have taken towards the fighting – many never to return.
In a centenary assessment of Bliss's music, Burn singles out for mention, " the youthful vigour of A Colour Symphony "," the poignant humanity of Morning Heroes ", " the romantic lyricism of the Clarinet Quintet ", " the drama of Checkmate, Miracle in the Gorbals and Things to Come ", and " the spiritual probing of the Meditations on a Theme of John Blow and Shield of Faith.
A longer version of the song was released as a single on Atlantic Records, reaching No. 30 on the Billboard Adult Contemporary chart early in 1972 ; the additional lyrics in this longer version lend the song a greater sense of sadness, and make poignant reference to social changes taking place in the 1960s and early 1970s A few perceptible drifts can be observed when listening to each version chronologically: In the original version Jean Stapleton was wearing glasses and after the first time the lyric " Those Were The Days " was sung over the tonic ( root chord of the song's key ) the piano strikes a Dominant 7th chord in transition to the next part which is absent from subsequent versions.
In his last days, he was reminded of his greatest achievement in a poignant fashion when his physicians examined him using magnetic resonance imaging, a technology that had been developed from his ground-breaking research on magnetic resonance.
Arrian also mentions Alexander ordering the shrine of Asclepios in Ecbatana to be razed to the ground, and that he cut his hair short in mourning, this last a poignant reminder of Achilles ' last gift to Patroclus on his funeral pyre: "... he laid the lock of hair in the hands of his beloved companion, and the whole company was moved to tears.
The hospital's mission was to care for the abandoned children in London ; and it achieved rapid fame through its poignant mission, its art collection donated from supporting artists, and popular benefit concerts put on by George Frideric Handel.
According to Londen, Ior Svedlin was interviewed by the Finnish newspaper Hufvudstadsbladet in 1982 and he was quoted there giving a statement that Londen has found most poignant in yielding a critical perspective on Ior Bock's own biography which he began to present to the public two years thereafter.
His work, with its overt humour, poignant reflections on contemporary urban life, and interest in the mistakes of the imagination, reveals an affinity with Frank O ' Hara, John Ashbery and the New York School of the 1950s, as well as the Beat writers of the 1960s -- Allen Ginsberg and Lawrence Ferlinghetti most obviously.
Card ’ s lyrics often rely on clever word plays, double entendres, and off-beat but sometimes poignant narratives about ordinary life.
The tone of the programme in series one and two, and much of series three, mixed poignant drama and action sequences with offbeat comic moments, and many of these tales had a grittier feel to them than the more light-hearted storylines that would go on to be more familiar.
The motto, granted on 14 February 1852 to the former Borough of Blackburn, is poignant as Blackburn, once a small town, had risen to importance through the energy and enterprise of her spinners and manufacturers, combined with the skill and labour of her operatives.
Robert Wyatt provided his eerie Wyattron in the poignant ' Cold Shoulder ', Phil Manzanera contributed to the brooding ' Brainstorm ', Hugh Hopper from Soft Machine played bass on the title track and Bridget St. John, a British Folk singer beloved of John Peel, duetted with Ayers on ' Baby Come Home ', the first time they had sung together since 1970 on Shooting at the Moon.

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The songs were by turns " poignant, insightful and honest ," and Shepard, " deeply moved " by what he heard, encouraged Ayers to record them properly for a possible new album.
It was particularly poignant because for Batman Returns, Winston had to follow on from Anton Furst's earlier work, and recreate change according to what Burton wanted to do differently the next time around.
With her longtime band, she has built what has been called a " unique " and critically acclaimed body of work of " sonic short stories and poignant performances.
's & Cassell's Weekly foresaw no difficulties for The Well: " One cannot say what effect this book will have on the public attitude of silence or derision, but every reader will agree with Mr. Havelock Ellis in the preface, that ' the poignant situations are set forth with a complete absence of offence.
" Reviewer Julie Robertson wrote, “ I don ’ t know what I love best about Gerald Haslam ’ s writing: the validation of his own turf, his marvelous sense of history and metaphor, or his zany and poignant characters .” Historian Kevin Starr observed, “ for Haslam the Great Central Valley offers a profound and dynamic probe, an axis of approach, a metaphor, into the human condition itself .” Professor David Fine asserts, “ He writes with tolerance about intolerance, with a sense of justice about injustice and with humor that doesn ’ t stoop to condescension .” The Long Beach Press-Telegram called him simply “ the writers ’ writer .”
Included within that number is an Apache Dance, a brief joyous celebration of what once was and a poignant expression of their regret for their actions.
Both Kim-Chui and Sabine eventually help Jen to accept them for what they are, and the film, although comic, strikes a poignant note as well.
The contrasts, the evocative storyline and the themes of yearning for comfort, of brotherly affection, loyalty and struggle for freedom went over well with a wide readership that was often familiar with Tolkien's Lord of the Rings trilogy and with folktales, and in many ways Lindgren's novel is an example of what Tolkien described as inspiration drawn from " the deeper folktale " ( in On Fairy-Stories ) and the cathartic, poignant power of such stories.

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Mostly the scene was crowded with mourners, such as the dramatic Dell'Arca Lamentation in Bologna, where the grief-stricken spectators had usurped Mary's last poignant moment.
U2's halftime show captivated the audience as a poignant tribute to the those who had been lost in the attacks.
His loss prompted him to write two poignant poems about the man he had grown to love: " To A Very Wise Man " and " Revisitation ".
The championship proved all the more poignant for Miami's veteran superstars Alonzo Mourning, Gary Payton, Jason Williams, and Antoine Walker who had never before won an NBA championship.
A Death in An American Family, was a poignant depiction of Loud's physical decline, due to a combination of an addiction to crystal meth, which had lasted for over 20 years, and complications from HIV.
She also had a poignant role in the thriller The Debt Collector ( 1999 ).
Mac Eoin wrote this poignant letter to his friend ( and classmate at Moyne Latin School ) Father Jim Sheridan, a combatant in the Old IRA and a " Flying Column " member who had been ordained and sent to Milwaukee to study theology:
I reread the novel a number of times and then I went through and highlighted the dialogue and poignant sentences Salten had written.
For Sackville-West, Sissinghurst and its garden rooms came to be a poignant and romantic substitute for Knole, reputedly the largest house in Britain, which as the only child of Lionel, the 3rd Lord Sackville she would have inherited had she been a male, but which had passed to her cousin as the male heir.
James Kaplan from his book: Frank The Voice wrote, " He played piano beautifully, wrote gorgeously poignant songs about romance ... he had a fat wallet, he flew his own plane ; he never went home alone.
While Edwards faced a wide field, Roemer's candidacy had a poignant aspect.
This decision seemed especially poignant given that his old rival Ray Reardon had announced his retirement following his defeat in the 1991 World Championship Qualifying.
Thus, the threat of roaming bandits was a particularly poignant one – it evoked an era of lawlessness which the French monarchy had successfully countered in previous years.
In the book Studs ' collapse is less poignant, since no one was trying to help him and he had no reason to keep on fighting.
Environmentalists, scientists, lawyers, recreational river users, families that had lived here for generations, and others that had recently moved to the area, all protested, and among the voices, none seemed more poignant than the artists.
With these scenes restored in the revised and expanded edition of 2012, however, the novel ’ s meaning to Armenians is all the more poignant, as Vartan Gregorian writes in the preface, " The Forty Days of Musa Dagh was meant as a memorial set against a new historical phenomenon that had been described as " the murder of a nation ," " the extermination of a race ," and " the assassination of Armenia ..." The novel, in its expanded form, has even more relevance as a document of genocide.

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