Poignancy

Word POIGNANCY
Character 9
Hyphenation poign an cy
Pronunciations N/A

Definitions and meanings of "Poignancy"

What do we mean by poignancy?

The quality of being poignant

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The word "poignancy" in example sentences

Rome adds a certain poignancy to the story, I think. ❋ Unknown (2010)

That Lucy's a senior, and knowing that this was her last parents weekend, added a certain poignancy to the occasion. ❋ Ralph Gardner Jr. (2010)

This is a complex fiction piece but it's not lacking in poignancy or resonance either. ❋ Unknown (2009)

By focusing on the characters instead of the technology, the story floats in poignancy, holding its head above the soapy waters with another positive message about diversity and, this time, generosity as well. ❋ Unknown (2006)

Lowdown: Summer draws poignancy from the half-century dividing it from Dandelion Wine, but feels like an afterthought. ❋ Unknown (2006)

And for those of you that don’t know, there’s a certain poignancy attached to this, because Adrienne Shelly was murdered in November of last year, before her film was released/shown at the Sundance blah de blah. ❋ Unknown (2007)

The Lord of the Rings derives great poignancy from the constant uncertainty of Frodo’s position, as Aragorn and Gandalf and the rest strive superhumanly to perform heroic deeds that will be entirely wasted if Sauron recovers the Ring. ❋ Superversive (2006)

I had a thing for Japanese authors like Shusako Endo (loooved his novel “The Samurai”) and Junichiro Tanizaki (loooved his novel “The Makioka Sisters”) Currently, I love the author Tom Perrotta – he masterfully balances humor and poignancy, which is something I strive to do in my writing as well. ❋ Unknown (2008)

We have all of us sobbed so piteously, standing with tiny bare legs above our little socks, when we lost sight of our mother or nurse in some strange place; but we can no longer recall the poignancy of that moment and weep over it, as we do over the remembered sufferings of five or ten years ago. ❋ Unknown (1917)

Scalia belittled the "poignancy" of Blackmun's description of an execution by lethal injection. ❋ Unknown (2008)

According to the Oxford English Dictionary News (September 2001) she was the first to talk about the 'middling class', to refer to a person's final 'resting-place' and to use the word 'poignancy'. ❋ Unknown (2008)

I mean, he came in one night around 10: 00 p.m. when we were eating, and all I can tell you is that in the aftermath of that meeting, there was not only a kind of poignancy, there was also almost an inspiration. ❋ ITY National Archives (1998)

I think that's one of the reasons you saw the kind of poignancy that was embodied in their two statements. ❋ ITY National Archives (1995)

He was capable of that which will always be called "poignancy," and what for the moment we call "depth." ❋ Hilaire Belloc (1911)

The lady praised its 'poignancy' and 'grave beauty'. ❋ John Buchan (1907)

The ideas which he expresses are few and simple -- ideas common to all men; but they take a special colour from his own feelings and experiences, and he renders them with a poignancy which is his own, with a melancholy gaiety and a desperate imaginative sincerity. ❋ Edward Dowden (1878)

The other Duchess was born Elizabeth Harvey -- the woman whose eyes still scintillate also from Sir Joshua's canvas, with an energy so overwhelming as to be uncanny -- the woman who fascinated without actual beauty, but whose smile might have embroiled the world -- the woman who stirred even the sluggish Gibbon and made him say, with a personal vivacity and poignancy which is unique in his writings, that if she had entered the House of Lords and beckoned the Lord Chancellor to leave the ❋ John St. Loe Strachey (1893)

He didn't take us back to Eden, in the manner of Renaissance pastoralists, he took us back to the moment of exile from Eden, the excruciating poignancy of the moment mankind came to know death. ❋ Linda (2009)

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