poignant
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He also gave a poignant shout-out to the show’s original cast members Brian Stokes Mitchell and Audra McDonald, and sent all the love to his three young sons.
From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 8, 2026
In its four-star review, Radio Times described Alice and Steve as an "impressively wrong-footing drama about love and hate", praising its ability to balance sharp comedy with more poignant themes.
From BBC • Jun. 5, 2026
Yet that is truthful to the past, and in a poignant postwar conclusion the book makes an honest accounting of how much of Günter’s faith in the life drive has survived.
From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 3, 2026
Beyond all that, this curtain call means leaving behind one of TV’s best intergenerational relationships and its most poignant, accurate exploration of the craggy emotional geography of friendships between women.
From Salon • May 29, 2026
The symbolism of the scene was poignant, dramatizing as it did the passing of the prototypical American and the cause of gradual emancipation.
From "Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation" by Joseph J. Ellis
Vocabulary lists containing poignant
Grade 12, List 1
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