Mr Zubok poignantly details the lengthy and bitter decline that followed. The earthy Khrushchev resented the cultural elite's pretensions.
That this is so patently obvious is what makes it so utterly painful, and so poignantly ironic.
On Indian television, the veteran U.S. diplomat Frank Wisner poignantly noted that the United States has to delicately negotiate "ambiguity" in its relationship with Pakistan.
The presents are poignantly all about Charles as a man rather than a Royal and everything Camilla has sourced has a real connection to Charles.
It was perhaps never more poignantly played out than during the two greatest maritime disasters in history: the sinking of the Titanic and the Lusitania.
He adds, poignantly, "I knew the marine life would be more abundant , but I couldn't imagine it would be so spectacular".
I learned that he'd worked on a farm, played in a band with the scouts and had always enjoyed a hearty breakfast, but all his replies were poignantly humble.
This last observation seems so heartfelt, so poignantly rendered, that one can only advise Mr DE Botton himself to cease his solitary endeavours and take the plunge into the pleasures of office life.
Rather poignantly for someone born into celebrity and making a career in fashion, McCartney is quite unusually unphotogenic; she's far more attractive in the flesh than she ever looks in pictures.
