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Letter "P" » poignant
«Smell brings to mind... a family dinner of pot roast and sweet potatoes during a myrtle-mad August in a Midwestern town. Smells detonate softly in our memory like poignant land mines hidden under the weedy mass of years.»
Author: Diane Ackerman
(Writer)
| Keywords:
August, detonate, land mines, midwestern, mines, myrtle, poignant, pot, potatoes, pot roast, roast, roasting, smells, softly, sweet potato, weedy
«Success is transient, evanescent. The real passion lies in the poignant acquisition of knowledge about all the shading and subtleties of the creative secrets.»
Author: Konstantin Stanislavsky
(Actor)
| About:
Success
| Keywords:
acquisition, acquisitions, evanescent, poignant, shading, shadings, subtleties, transient
«It was no more than a black slash in the ground, a poignant contrast to the lofty white marble and limestone of this monumental city. It was cut into a gently rising slope of grass An al fresco mortuary.»
Author: Nelson DeMille
| Keywords:
contrast, cut into, fresco, gently, lofty, monumental, mortuary, poignant, rising slope, slash, slashed, slashes, slope, slopes
«Breast and bosoms I have known Of varied shapes and sizes From poignant disappointments To jubilant surprises»
«He wants to live on through something-and in his case, his masterpiece is his son. all of us want that, and it gets more poignant as we get more anonymous in this world.»
Author: Arthur Miller
(Playwright)
| About:
Fathers,
Living
| Keywords:
anonymous, his case, his son, poignant
«A grievance is most poignant when almost redressed.»
«The youth and cheerfulness of morning are in happy analogy, and of powerful operation; and if the distress be not poignant enough to keep the eyes unclosed, they will be sure to open to sensations of softened pain and brighter hope»
Author: Jane Austen
(Novelist, Writer)
| Keywords:
Analogies, analogy, cheerfulness, poignant, softened
«There are few sorrows, however poignant, in which a good income is of no avail.»
«Industrial societies turn their citizens into image-junkies; it is the most irresistible form of mental pollution. Poignant longings for beauty, for an end to probing below the surface, for a redemption and celebration of the body of the world. Ultimately, having an experience becomes identical with taking a photograph of it.»
Author: Susan Sontag
(Activist, Critic, Writer)
| Keywords:
Body of, identical, industrial, industrial societies, industrial society, irresistible, junkie, junkies, junky, longings, mental image, Out of body experience, poignant, pollution, probe, probed, probes, probing, redemption, societies, The Celebration
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