poignance

There is a particular poignance in looking back now on those happy days two years before the war.

This memory was written out of a full heart, with the poignance that lies in every backward human gaze.

Percival smiled as he resumed his walk—smiled with all that bitter cynicism which only youth may feel to its full poignance.

Yet always in the main he had color, beauty, emotion, poignance when necessary.