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In fact, of all the speeches at the convention that year, Watts' was almost universally cited as one of the more memorable--up there with Colin Powell's and (for poignancy) Nancy Reagan's.
Wandering among the remains lends poignancy to your exploration.
"[F]ast and funny with real moments of poignancy" (Yahlin Chang, Newsweek ) and "one of those rare occasions when a highly touted book fulfills the excitement" ( Publishers Weekly ). Some critics detect shades of the single-gal dippiness of Bridget Jones's Diary , but most say that this is much more witty and sophisticated.
Since English lacks a calque for au revoir , it would be technically possible to make one, perhaps on the model of Joyce's (or his Stephen Dedalus') “agenbite (of inwit)” for remorse: till the agenseeing . But of course such bitterly pedantic wordplay would be unthinkable on the lips of the plain-spoken priest whose words give the Malle film its title and some of its poignancy.
The movie's Septimus never seems more than a literary conceit, and only in his fleeting moments of sanity does Graves acquire a mordant poignancy.