poignancy

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

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

From BBC ● Jun. 9, 2026

There’s a grandfather quality to Kani’s Sam, but the increase in years has only deepened the play’s poignancy.

From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 17, 2026

From there, Gunn’s curated playlist, featuring bands like Hardcore Superstar, Cruel Intentions and Ida Maria, musically narrates each installment’s operatic heroics and slapstick violence, or adds poignancy to Chris’ bouts of crushingly low self-esteem.

From Salon ● Dec. 14, 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

What is left is an abundant supply of jokes together with jarring poignancies.

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 Walpole, Hugh, Sir