poignantly
- a word derived from poignant.
Example Sentences
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The most difficult section, “Gendered Dialogues,” delves into Kahlo’s sometimes androgynous appearance and, more poignantly, her boundary-breaking works about her body and the pains of childbirth and miscarriage.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 1, 2026
But it’s poignantly introspective on tracks like “What Is Left to Say” and “I Wish I Didn’t Waste Your Time.”
From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 30, 2026
Nevertheless: “Once more you drown one of your own in the inky depths of democracy,” Cumming intones after Funches poignantly exits.
From Salon • Jan. 28, 2026
Mr. Le Tellier became obsessed with excavating the past of this unknown man, an inquiry that poignantly revives the valor and tragedy of World War II.
From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 28, 2025
“You and I ought not to die,” Adams rather poignantly put it in an early letter, “before We have explained ourselves to each other.”
From "Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation" by Joseph J. Ellis
