poignancy

Plenty of films measure the lamentable distance between real life and Hollywood fantasy, but there’s not enough poignancy or creative exuberance in these stilted dance sequences.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 25, 2026

There is a poignancy that Sir Billy departed soon after her.

From BBC ● Aug. 25, 2026

I knew at the time this would be something I would remember all my life, but the memory took on almost unbearable poignancy when Lorraine died on July 3, 2006.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 28, 2026

But because Kore-eda’s subpar script is short on emotional depth, the director leans on Bandoh to sell a poignancy the audience isn’t feeling.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 24, 2026

Hamilton’s last days contained several other incidents of equivalent poignancy, though they were only recognizable when viewed through the knowledge of the looming duel.

From "Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation" by Joseph J. Ellis

He's looking forward to next season, where he plans to delve more deeply in the character, probing "her pain and poignancies."

From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 12, 2015

Steele-Perkins is good at little poignancies, the tell-tale details that give the game away, that point out our common fallibilities.

From The Guardian ● Apr. 16, 2010

Charles Sturridge's pretty film version, though, sees these subtle poignancies as placards, something to smash over his characters' empty heads as he sings, "Let's all be beastly to the British."

From Time Magazine Archive

McGinley began to find her own voice and to extol the pleasures and poignancies of the hearth, Memorial Day parades, the smell of charcoal grills, the damp loafers on the lawn.

From Time Magazine Archive

They will cut themselves with sweet and bitter poignancies of laughter and tears, when the sun shines upon wet forests in the green earth.

From Among Famous Books by John Kelman