Use of poignancy in Sentences. 18 Examples

The examples include poignancy at the start of sentence, poignancy at the end of sentence and poignancy in the middle of sentence

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poignancy at the start of sentence


  1. Poignancy was largely subsumed into world-weariness, resurfacing in spasms of authenticity.

poignancy at the end of sentence


  1. The poem has a haunting poignancy.
  2. a moment of extraordinary poignancy.
  3. The film contains moments of almost unbearable poignancy.
  4. The movie, " Trains, Planes, and Automobiles " treats this with hilarity and poignancy.
  5. Just trying to do my little part to build the giant tower of Tweeted junk, wisdom, jokes, ephemera and poignancy.
  6. Hui and screenwriter Li Qiang have a knack for humorous observation, but the film rambles , the actors tending for too long to overplay the comedy and ignore the underlying poignancy.

poignancy in the middle of sentence


  1. There is a certain poignancy about Eric.
  2. On top of it all, there was a touch of poignancy to his forced retirement.
  3. He was the last of that generation and the poignancy of that is almost overwhelming.
  4. The poignancy of that piece is the circumstance of its composition, not its subject matter.
  5. Freni traditionally epitomized poignancy and lyric charm, tinged with a measure of sensuality.
  6. Of particular poignancy was the photograph of their son with his sisters, taken the day before he died.
  7. She must have been six-teen or seventeen, and looked out at him with a poignancy that gripped his heart.
  8. The poignancy in this kiss on her warm lips nearly induced instant paralysis on every sense of her body.
  9. It adds some retrospective poignancy to our story, I think, and possibly some connection to Emerson's universe.
  10. Which lends extra poignancy to the vision of Turkey as the lynchpin of this empire, covering all Muslims and all Turks.
  11. West's elegy magnifies the warts and the amours,(Sentence dictionary) yet gives poetic poignancy to the portraits he draws here.

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