poignancy

How To Use poignancy In A Sentence

• The crucifixion of the two robbers with Jesus was a sort of topstone of obloquy and disgrace contrived by His murderers with the double object of further humiliating Him in the eyes of the people, and of adding poignancy to His own agony. Our Master Thoughts for Salvationists about Their Lord
• His observations would not have the poignancy they do, there would not be the tragedy or pathos he leaves as a ghost after his poem if the assumptions of materialism were not juxtaposed with his intuitions of immateriality. The Poet Thomas Hardy « Unknowing
• The poem has a haunting poignancy.
• I use harmonics for effect, colour and poignancy as well as their ethereal tone texture.
• That poignancy cannot be recaptured now, and the choreography's mass yearnings and grievings feel uncomfortably religiose.
• a moment of extraordinary poignancy
• The film veers in its perfectly-plotted course from absolute hilarity to extreme poignancy.
• The melody is tender but not unduly saccharine and is played here with more concern for easeful relaxation than poignancy.
• His public funeral and the later memorial evening of performances by the company are described with heartbreaking poignancy.
• Though despair at his material sometimes makes him bellow, he gives a bravura performance that transmutes pointlessness into poignancy.