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poignancy

[poin-yuhn-see, poin-uhn-] / ˈpɔɪn yən si, ˈpɔɪn ən- /
NOUN
intensity
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Poignancy is one of the most vital components in Jackson’s “Get Back.”

From Washington Post • Nov. 25, 2021

Poignancy mixes well with humor, the songs are fresh and sweet, the set is blissful and the performances honest.

From Washington Times • Apr. 26, 2016

A version of this review appears in print on January 16, 2014, on page C8 of the with the headline: Virtuoso Poignancy Unfettered By Concepts.

From New York Times • Jan. 15, 2014

They were not so cruel as, wholly, to serve for quelling; and yet they had a Poignancy that might tend to provoke.

From An Essay on the Antient and Modern State of Ireland by Brooke, Henry

The same may be said of the Poignancy of Satyr; and the natural Images of ordinary Life in Comedy.

From The Preface to the Aeneis of Virgil (1718) by Trapp, Joseph




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