Word: poignant
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...reduced in number, but the material taught within them will be condensed. This admittance of the value of concentrated effort should result in such long-needed reforms as the reorganization of concentration in the field of history. The dangers of over-departmentalization are as old as they are poignant, but President Conant's allusion to the strings attached by budgetary allocations does much to clarify the situation...
There could be found no more poignant example of contemporary youth's prematurely cynical attitude toward the failings of its elders than the organization recently founded at Princeton. Calling itself the Veterans of Future Wars, the organization advances as the chief plank of its platform the immediate payment of a bonus to all males who will be killed in the next war. A similar movement at Vassar, The Gold Star Mothers of the Veterans of Future Wars, declares that it intends to send delegates to view the future burying ground of the future dead...
...traced from his birth to the last hunt in a country where fox hunting is life. This thread of unity is broken only by several brief and splendidly executed vignettes of South Carolina plantation life, cockfighting, whopper-telling, and a few poignant sequences depicting with brave objectivity the final breakdown of the old plantation system...
Examination periods always leave a host of tragedies in their wake. Thus when one of them is discussed in detail; you may be sure that it is especially poignant...
Oliver's second rebuff is deeper and more poignant. Since his boyhood he has felt a strong affection for Rose Darnley, younger sister of his father's old companion, a graceful, sensitive girl whose temperament is somewhat like his own. During the War, when Oliver is certain that he is going to be killed, when his failure to solve the moral problems that oppress him has led to his physical breakdown, he proposes to Rose that she marry him so that he may leave his fortune to her. But Rose has fallen in love with Mario, although Mario...