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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.
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.
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.
"[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.