Perhaps the most poignant display, however, is of a dozen great safes, some bearing metal tabs that say, "P. L. M. Moothiah Chettyar & Sons Manufacturing."

There are a few other updatings, too, from a farcical sight gag about the World Trade Center bombing to the poignant display of some Ludlam memorabilia in Everett's Greenwich Village apartment.

His ambivalence about attention was on poignant display at the dedication.

Upstairs is a poignant display of family photo albums Mr. Belott found in thrift shops.

Mr. Bush found it necessary last weekend to predict that he would carry his adopted state of Texas, an almost poignant display of bravado toward Mr. Perot, the Dallas billionaire.

It was a poignant display of veterans' pride.

Look out for a piece of the Berlin Wall that has been repurposed in a poignant display.

What a marvelous atmosphere for college football: the usual 100,000 mostly Buckeyes fans flocking to Ohio Stadium in a poignant display of what makes this college sports enterprise so intriguing.

In place of Gatsby's poignant display of his shirts, we have Mr. Trump telling reporters: "See this railing?

For some visitors it appears that one of the most poignant displays might be a glass box sitting on a table.