Word: poignant
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...technique of the many short scenes and shots gives an insatiable and horrible rhythm to the play, a rhythm reinforced and given a high tragic emphasis by the force and poignant vigor of McLaglen's acting. The gloom of the foggy night with its almost animate compulsion of remorse and terror and repentance and the tale of revolutionary passion in the furtive Republican Army provide a grim warp along which the fate of the informer is woven with almost classical measuredness and tragic purpose. It is unfortunate that the construction is not a little more closely knit. The reason...
...connection with this unwarranted hysteria nothing could be more poignant than a quotation from President Roosevelt's inaugural address in 1933. "We have nothing to fear but fear itself." If the Constitution of the United States is not strong enough to stand on its own feet without any help from red-white-and-blue lobbyists, it is not worth saving...
...most poignant sign of the degeneracy of the times is shown by the lamentable position of William Randolph Hearst, for whom things have come to such a pass that he must buy a quarter page advertisement in the New York Herald-Tribune (of all places!) to assure a suspicious nation that his intentions have never been anything but strictly honorable. Those who deny this are not only malicious criminals but also un-American and subversive...
Giddily, the Memorial Hall Clock let the wind caress her early yesterday morning in a manner reminiscent of her poignant Civil War days. But the ardor of her lusty suitor sent blood to one of her four faces so rapidly that it lost all sense of time...
...play of its Boston Subscription Season. The play was written by S. N. Behrman, from whose pen came last season's success, "Biography." Those who expected a similar play, however, would have been disappointed, for this new work is something of a comedy at times and at others is poignant drama. But it is highly entertaining and it is good drama...