How to Use poignance in a Sentence

poignance

noun

• But there’s a poignance — and maybe a special dilemma — to that.
  — Owen Gleiberman, Variety, 27 May 2022
• The book stands out for its raw power, poignance, and moments of grace.
  — Barbara Spindel, The Christian Science Monitor, 8 Sep. 2021
• In the history of Dawn Turner, there’s far more poignance here than at the home where Louis Armstrong lived.
  — Christopher Borrelli, chicagotribune.com, 3 Sep. 2021
• This adds poignance to their relentless commitment to the next put-down or joke.
  — Gary Thompson, Detroit Free Press, 1 Sep. 2017
• This adds poignance to their relentless commitment to the next put-down or joke.
  — Gary Thompson, Philly.com, 24 Aug. 2017
• The poignance of these images have been peaceful counterpoints to the rage sweeping across the country.
  — Harry Bruinius, The Christian Science Monitor, 5 June 2020
• Mixed in with these emotions is the poignance attached to Fisher's death a year ago toward the end of production.
  — Todd McCarthy, The Hollywood Reporter, 12 Dec. 2017
• The production, which featured an all-Black cast, was heavy but not without moments of joy and poignance.
  — Lilah Ramzi, Vogue, 28 Sep. 2021
• The piercing cries of the bugle, along with the ways in which the boys struggle mightily with the unseen force of the wind, are full of poignance and futility.
  — Los Angeles Times, 3 Sep. 2021
• Since Sulli’s passing, the song’s looming dread has only magnified, but so has the poignance of its bridge.
  — Billboard Staff, Billboard, 25 Nov. 2019
• The gripping flashbacks, the adrenaline-pumping action and the heart-piercing poignance show Mr. Ide at his best.
  — Tom Nolan, WSJ, 28 Jan. 2022
• Cosentino says the play contains bits of dry humor, poignance and the bluntness/directness for which Atwood is known.
  — cleveland, 5 Oct. 2019
• When the dialogue survives, its isolation tends to heighten its poignance or irony.
  — J.r. Jones, Chicago Reader, 26 Apr. 2018
• The long walk in the cold obliged us to huddle for warmth, and the fascinating narration drove home the brutal reality of human bondage with great poignance.
  — Zachary Lewis, cleveland, 25 Mar. 2021
• The talented team of actors, who recorded the play over Zoom, employ a variety of emotions and accents that add realism and poignance to the play.
  — Pam Kragen, San Diego Union-Tribune, 26 Oct. 2020
• This concoction was a delicious souffle of equal parts humor and poignance.
  — Dan Cryer, San Francisco Chronicle, 28 Mar. 2018
• Antique daguerreotypes and evocations of the journeys of Odysseus and Telemachus add poignance to a heart-twisting story of love strong enough to outlast life itself.
  — Meghan Cox Gurdon, WSJ, 10 Dec. 2021
• There is an unexpected poignance, too, to text that has not yet been sent, still available for revision or, perhaps, deletion.
  — Naomi Fry, The New Yorker, 3 Sep. 2020
• There is an effortless feeling to Brinkley’s sentences, a casual beauty that lends poignance to all his confused boys, his sad and angry men.
  — Brittany Allen, Longreads, 24 May 2018
• There is an unexpected poignance to all this repetition.
  — Alex Shephard, The New Republic, 19 May 2020
• The visual bard of American solitude—not loneliness, a maudlin projection—speaks to our isolated states these days with fortuitous poignance.
  — Peter Schjeldahl, The New Yorker, 1 June 2020
• The resulting images are unique tintypes, giving Sternbach’s contemporary subjects, in their wetsuits and bikinis, the poignance and presence of figures unmoored in time.
  — Vince Aletti, The New Yorker, 2 Mar. 2022
• Spielberg revives ‘80s slapstick era Tom Hanks, adding the poignance of an immigration tale and a splash of international politics.
  — Christopher Borrelli, chicagotribune.com, 24 Mar. 2022
• There’s the sour news, which is complicated by tangential sensations of grotesquerie and elegance, fury and poignance, and, perhaps, of philosophical insight.
  — Peter Schjeldahl, The New Yorker, 25 Nov. 2019
• Her superpower is her expression, her peerless ability to turn phrases with poignance and uncover meaning inside chords and at points where many struggle.
  — Zachary Lewis, cleveland, 23 Aug. 2021
• The poignance of the no-hitter, which featured other eerie numerical coincidences — such as the correlation between the Angels’ 11th no-hitter and Skaggs wearing No.
  — Maria Torres, latimes.com, 13 July 2019
• Raylan’s eternal opposite number is Boyd Crowder, a local boy gone hysterically bad whom Walton Goggins played with joyful gusto and shades of poignance.
  — Darren Franich, EW.com, 5 Dec. 2019
• That subplot epitomizes how showrunners Matt Youngberg and Francisco Angones layered nostalgia with misfit-toy poignance.
  — Darren Franich, EW.com, 19 Feb. 2021
• Mailer’s defiant tone rings hollow amid the show’s overall poignance, which derives from the retrospective mood imposed by Tannenbaum’s curatorial voice, and the remembrances in which Powers is quoted.
  — Steven Litt, cleveland, 6 June 2021
• Beside blank walls, slim windows, and aging radiators, commonplace objects assume surprising poignance.
  — Eren Orbey, The New Yorker, 22 Oct. 2019

Last Updated: 24 Jul 2024