poignant
adjective
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Contemporary Examples of poignantly
I am living in Germany now,” she poignantly told us, “but I do not want to die in Germany.
Poignantly, the portion doesn't deal with her life at all, but with her death and its aftermath.
And Kings Point elucidates these fears all too clearly and poignantly.
No Country for Old People: ‘Kings Point’ Exposes the Hidden Elder CrisisDonald A. Davidoff
February 16, 2013
No news organization covered September 11, during or since, as comprehensively or as poignantly as the Times did.
Inside Tania Head’s Terrible 9/11 Lie: ‘The Woman Who Wasn’t There’Robin Gaby Fisher, Angelo J. Guglielmo, Jr.
April 6, 2012
If The Art of Fielding begins as a baseball story, so it ends as one, too—poignantly, beautifully, and improbably.
Historical Examples of poignantly
She had suffered so much, so poignantly, that at last her emotions had grown sluggish.
Within the LawMarvin Dana
She missed him poignantly, with all the force of her protecting passion.
The Secret AgentJoseph Conrad
Poignantly he remembered how a similar device had destroyed a ship.
Who are the gentlefolk the loss of whose patronage to the Feydau will be so poignantly felt?
ScaramoucheRafael Sabatini
That was something she poignantly missed; she had never had a secret from Jim before.
Peak and PrairieAnna Fuller