Example Sentences

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He's looking forward to next season, where he plans to delve more deeply in the character, probing "her pain and poignancies."

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 12, 2015

Steele-Perkins is good at little poignancies, the tell-tale details that give the game away, that point out our common fallibilities.

From The Guardian • Apr. 16, 2010

In the process it displays the grandest theatrical techniques, affirms the Tightness of love and friendship, revives pleasures and poignancies that have all but vanished from modern narrative art.

From Time Magazine Archive

Charles Sturridge's pretty film version, though, sees these subtle poignancies as placards, something to smash over his characters' empty heads as he sings, "Let's all be beastly to the British."

From Time Magazine Archive

The 'types, shadows and metaphors' of 'The Pilgrim's Progress,' with its poignancies of mental experience and conflict, its transcendent passages, its theological and na�ve moods, gave the artist an opportunity for more realized imagination.

From English Book-Illustration of To-day Appreciations of the Work of Living English Illustrators With Lists of Their Books by Sketchley, Rose Esther Dorothea