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The military cemeteries of both sides engaged in the historical battle now stand as a poignant memorial to the death and destruction that took place in the heat of the desert.
The most poignant parts of her books detail the pressures Scarpetta faces as an executive who's responsible for the welfare of her subordinates but under ruthless pressure to deliver results; the impossibility of sorting through overwhelming floods of information and straining for an educated guess; the sadness of a life lived in helicopters and planes rather than in hotels; the inadequacy of colleagues who function like family but aren't.
Near the end, having brought out in a scene you've described that no amount of money will ever be enough for Clark, Lewis concludes with a poignant but still opaque image that "the best and most lasting motive for wanting to change the way things are is to be unhappy with the way things are.
The piece says that Prime Minister Zhu Rongji's "quest for a place in the Communist-Chinese pantheon is informed with a poignant urgency.
They find it ironic and poignant that someone capable "of conceiving of a nuanced theory of rationality could descend into madness" (Robert Boynton, Newsday ). (Jim Holt reviews A Beautiful Mind in Slate.)