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UK
/pˈɔɪnjəntli/
]
[ US /ˈpɔɪnjəntɫi/ ]
[ US /ˈpɔɪnjəntɫi/ ]
ADVERB
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in a poignant or touching manner
she spoke poignantly
How To Use poignantly In A Sentence
- I'm very poignantly conscious of some aspects of it. The built urban environment, the interaction of urban spaces to themselves, to man, and to nature.
- Having agreed to our principle, whether as individuals or groups, of being unfooled about our subconscious and automatic selves, who are the best people in a nation constituted like ours, to unfool us the most quickly, to get our attention the most poignantly, and with the least trouble to us and to themselves? The Ghost in the White House Some suggestions as to how a hundred million people (who are supposed in a vague, helpless way to haunt the white house) can mak
- She has an astounding range of dynamics which she puts to good use and she intones the notes of her deep lower register softly and poignantly to indicate the gnawing pain of loss.
- And what is the essence of that strange and bitter miracle of life which we feel so poignantly, so unutterably, with such a bitter pain and joy, when we are young?
- The afflictions of a person suffering from terminal cancer were poignantly portrayed in the film, which also dwelt on the strengths of holistic medicine.
- At the same time, utter nihilism is staved off with some incisive and poignantly human touches.
- But in pre-Rose versions, John Milton's spelling of "woful" was a recurrent motif sounded most poignantly as Stephen Dedalus leads his class through a recitation of "Lycidas" in the second chapter: Making the Wrong Joyce
- The two kinds of mimickry both suggest attempts at self-measurement: the first a tacit admission of his lesser status vis-a-vis the contemporary pantheon, the second poignantly allegorizing his lack of access to the inheritance of cultural capital. Like
- Some are witty and epigrammatic, while others poignantly lament the writer's widowhood in unguardedly emotional terms. The Times Literary Supplement
- Few films have so fluently, so poignantly and amusingly, described contemporary Britons' attempts to overcome the shock of otherness.