poignancy

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

From BBC ● Aug. 25, 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

Seven years later, revisiting the poem has carried an added poignancy.

From BBC ● Jun. 9, 2026

Many of the differences in the characters’ destinies have been due to circumstances beyond their control, and perhaps their choices have been likewise inevitable, though the payoff is a poignancy that enriches the comedy.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 23, 2025

The Permian fans were on their feet, yelling with an urgent poignancy.

From "Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream" by H.G. Bissinger

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

He had, of course, grown ashamed of such confiding fancies, and as he had become more confident had shoved away, with stout, determined fingers, those dim memories, poignancies, regrets.

From The Golden Scarecrow by Sir Hugh Walpole