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.

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.

Sometimes the turns become a bit too rococo, but a sense of humor and a poignant sense of history combine to give The King's Commissar a tense, sustained fascination '

She went on to praise " Under the Bridge " for being a " poignant sentiment that is self evident among the simple guitar which cradles the introductory verse, and the sense of fragility that is only doubled by the still down-tempo choral crescendo ".

" 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 .”

Most articles are written with a sense of irreverence and poignant satire that is often criticized as overly critical which has caused a number of controversies in the magazine's short life.

* " Never Gonna Dance ": After Astaire sings Field's memorable closing line: " la belle, la perfectly swell romance " of Kern's haunting ballad, they begin the acknowledgement phase of the dance-possibly their greatest-replete with a poignant nostalgia for their now-doomed affair, where music changes to " The Way You Look Tonight " and they dance slowly in a manner reminiscent of the opening part of " Let's Face The Music And Dance " from Follow the Fleet.

Holly wrote a poignant sequel called " Peggy Sue Got Married ", and recorded a demo or practice version in his New York City apartment on December 5, 1958, accompanied only by himself on guitar.

Film Score Monthly described Badalamenti's melodic score as a definite asset to the film, underscoring several scenes with comical, Henry Mancini-like cues, and others with a delicate, poignant theme that blossoms into a waltz over the end credits.

On learning about her death, Alexander Vertinsky, wrote one of his most poignant songs, " Your fingers smell of church incense, and your lashes sleep in grief ..." A director with whom she had worked for several years filmed her large funeral.

Concerning popular music, Ananda Samarakoon developed the reflective and poignant Sarala gee style with his work in the late 1930s / early 1940s.

Italian neorealism of the 1940s produced poignant movies made in post-war Italy.

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.

Nikolai Cherkasov, the Russian actor who has played such heroic roles as Alexander Nevsky and Ivan the Terrible, performs the lanky Don Quixote, and does so with a simple dignity that bridges the inner nobility and the surface absurdity of this poignant man.

When the Azzuri crashed out to France in the 1986 tournament and Scirea retired, the mantle was passed to Baresi who returned to the side, a responsibility that become more poignant when Scirea was killed in a car accident aged 36, only months before Italy was to host the World Cup.

U2's halftime show captivated the audience as a poignant tribute to the those who had been lost in the attacks.

In the Washington Post, Desson Howe praised Natalie Portman's performance: " As a self-described ' old soul ' who connects spiritually with Hutton ( they're both existential searchers ), she's the movie's most poignant and witty presence ".

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.

In a Charlie Chaplin documentary, Allen admitted he was inspired by the ending in which the blind girl has regained her sight after an operation and finds out that the Tramp is the one who has been helping her and the poignant smile he flashed as his response.

On April 12, 2010, the Pulitzer Prize Board awarded Williams a posthumous special citation that paid tribute to his " craftsmanship as a songwriter who expressed universal feelings with poignant simplicity and played a pivotal role in transforming country music into a major musical and cultural force in American life.

The soldiers lying dead in the foreground offer poignant counterpoint to the symbolic female figure, who is illuminated triumphantly, as if in a spotlight.

The majority was sent to Jagatara ( Jakarta ) and are still remembered by the locals as the people who wrote the poignant letters which were smuggled across the sea to their homeland.

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:

In 1985, SOE agent and painter Brian Stonehouse, who saw Andrée Borrel and the three other female SOE agents at the Natzweiler-Struthof concentration camp just before their deaths, painted a poignant watercolour of the four women which now hangs in the Special Forces Club in London, England.

The singer-songwriter approach that waned in the late 80s shows presently a sound condition in the Basque scene, with some very outstanding figures, like poignant Anari, renowned for her intense, heartbreaking voice and songs, who is now taking off ( live recording Anari Kafe Antzokian Zuzenean released in 2008 ).

In a last poignant scene, the father ( who has come looking for his son in Prague ) and the son end up in the same public toilet, where the son is taking drugs, but of course only the audience knows this, as the camera is hovering above the stalls.

* 2001: Tom Hallman, Jr., The Oregonian ( Portland, Oregon ), " for his poignant profile of a disfigured 14-year old boy who elects to have life-threatening surgery in an effort to improve his appearance.

* 2006: Jim Sheeler of Rocky Mountain News, " for his poignant story on a Marine major who helps the families of comrades killed in Iraq cope with their loss and honor their sacrifice.

In a poignant passage, she is comforting Luc Cornet, a young soldier from Millau who is dying of severe head wounds.

" Crowther praised Basehart's " startling and poignant " performance, and said that Douglas " takes the honors as the good-natured cop who finds all his modest resources of intelligence and patience taxed by this queer case.

" Austen's satire of the hypochondriac Parker sisters ( who project their hypochondria on to their brother Arthur as well ) is poignant in light of her own serious illness at the time.

It is a simple yet poignant monument dedicated to the great many local people who made sacrifices during the two world wars in the 20th Century.

For instance, the song from the movie Manasasarovara, Nee ne saakida gini, a poignant song, was shot amidst the dust-filled mining areas, thereby reflecting the agony of a man who has lost his true love.

He was a sharp thinker, who was able of poignant criticism of both his environment and himself.

Even their leaders, for the most part, I regard not as hypocrites, but as fanatics .” For instance, “ Brigham Young is the farthest remove on earth from a hypocrite ; he is that grand, yet awful sight in human nature, a man who has brought the loftiest Christian self-devotion to the altar of the Devil ...” A warning that must have seemed especially poignant was this: “ he Mormon enemies of our American Idea should be plainly understood as far more dangerous antagonists than hypocrites or idiots can ever hope to be.

For a dictator, he is a poignant and witty character who holds some sympathy for the audience despite his obsession with money and power.

This would be particularly poignant for the BritRoyal twins who grew up supporting the Coventry City soccer club and would get play at their home bowl, the Ricoh Arena.

However, the writers have also used this for more poignant purposes, such as when Anya finds herself struggling to deal with death.

One of the psychiatrist / interrogators acknowledged that the Agency's use of the technique is different from that used in SERE training because it is ' for real ' and is more poignant and convincing.

The video to the song was shot in black and white and displays poignant footage of children and the destruction of the bombing.

Everyone gathers to hear this song with its poignant lyrics including such words as " mother's there ' spectin ' me, father's waitin ' too.

He wrote " In the Hills of Shiloh ", a poignant song about the aftermath of the Civil War, which was recorded by The New Christy Minstrels, Judy Collins, Bobby Bare and others.

It made that playful, yet passionate kiss at the end of the final episode, which aired April 1, " Lucy Meets the Moustache ", all the more poignant, as the world already knew that this storied Hollywood marriage was all but over, and also lent extra meaning to the use of the song " That's All " in that episode.

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.

A baroque pop song about the end of a relationship, it was one of McCartney's most mature and poignant works upon its release.

The poem ends with the nightingale ’ s song, and a poignant expression of personal sorrow:

the environmental song " We Can Run, But We Can't Hide ", the live-performance-driven " Blow Away ", and the poignant

Produced by Don Was, it is a song cycle reflecting Sobule's personal and professional experiences after relocating from New York to Los Angeles, and containing humorous and poignant observations about the people, geography and popular culture of the West.

Notable for its expansion of Mitchell's artistic vision and its varied song topics ( ranging from the aesthetic weight of celebrity, to clear-eyed observation of the Woodstock generation, to the complexities of love ), Ladies of the Canyon is often viewed as a transition between Mitchell's folky earlier work and the more sophisticated, poignant albums that were to follow.

From this idea and title Walker co-wrote the song with Arnold which has been described as “ a beautifully symmetrical and poignant portrait of a love not to be ”.

They are best known for their 1971 hit " Mamy Blue " ( sic ), referring to a son's poignant song addressed to his departed mother about his childhood memories and life in general, sometimes spelled " Mommy Blue " or " Mammy Blue " or " Mummy Blue ", which was a Top 10 hit throughout much of Europe, Japan (# 2 ), and Canada (# 42 ), and a minor Billboard Hot 100 chart hit in the United States (# 57 ).

The album had guest appearances by Sheryl Crow and Steve Earle, a song co-written by Joe Henry and Jakob Dylan, and the poignant " September When It Comes ", a duet with her father.

*" Los Reyes no Llegaron " ( The Three Wise Men did not Arrive ), a poignant Christmas song written by Esteban Taronjí, and

Otherwise, to a few ( and especially to expatriate Canadians ), the original song remains a patriotic song ; and to all, it is a poignant recollection of French Canadian history.

It is a poignant moment as the local choir ( formed from a number of real-life local male voice choirs ) sing the Welsh language song Myfanwy at the end of Mumbles Pier.

And that's another strange song, because it's very poignant.

Their poignant song Swansong sets a poem about the damage to the environment caused by rubbish over a version of The Swan from The Carnival of the Animals by Saint-Saëns.

Whether they are put into the music categories of the times or not, they have had a strong influence on many younger bands having diverse styles due to their willingness ‘ in dismantling ’, or emancipating rock by boldly moving away from standard instrumentations and song styles into a resultant provocative amalgam with strong melodic hooks and poignant lyrics.