How to Use poignancy in a Sentence

poignancy

noun

• The humor, the poignancy, the sets, the travel, the 1950s.
  — Perri Ormont Blumberg, Southern Living, 11 July 2019
• No Time to Die tries to milk the poignancy from this idea.
  — K. Austin Collins, Rolling Stone, 1 Oct. 2021
• The day will be filled with poignancy and pageantry, tears and smiles.
  — Frida Ghitis, CNN, 17 Sep. 2022
• The bloody day painted the band's set with pain and poignancy.
  — Craig Hlavaty, Houston Chronicle, 19 May 2018
• And why not; there’s poignancy and irony built into the idea.
  — Richard Brody, The New Yorker, 24 Mar. 2022
• There was a note of poignancy to the proceedings, of course.
  — Doug MacCash, NOLA.com, 3 Nov. 2017
• But there is a poignancy that comes with the sale of a place into which you’re poured your soul.
  — Thomas Farragher, BostonGlobe.com, 22 Apr. 2023
• The music took on added poignancy when Berry died in March.
  — Jim Salter, The Seattle Times, 6 June 2017
• There’s nothing else like it on earth, and in that there’s poignancy, even hope.
  — Longreads, 29 Dec. 2022
• Its poignancy is in the fact that there will always be a limit.
  — K. Austin Collins, Rolling Stone, 14 Dec. 2022
• To me, sometimes the poignancy of their art is the distance traveled from it and their worst selves.
  — David Marchese, New York Times, 11 Sep. 2022
• These are the roots of my love affair with my favorite team, joy and poignancy.
  — Andrew C. McCarthy, National Review, 30 Aug. 2021
• And the historic Great Hall only added to the poignancy of the occasion, Nolan said.
  — Camilo Fonseca, BostonGlobe.com, 19 Aug. 2022
• The hand-crafted, stop-motion brings a level of poignancy to the film that maybe CG wouldn’t have.
  — Carole Horst, Variety, 24 Jan. 2022
• There’s a lightness to many of the cues, but also a poignancy that shone throughout.
  — Melinda Newman, Billboard, 27 May 2017
• Which, in turn, undercuts the poignancy of the bonds that the series rests upon.
  — Angie Han, The Hollywood Reporter, 25 June 2024
• But on Sunday, the day had fresh poignancy with news of the Colorado shooting.
  — Chicago Tribune Staff, Chicago Tribune, 21 Nov. 2022
• The poignancy of the film comes from Meg’s relationship with her body.
  — Alisha Acquaye, GQ, 2 May 2018
• In Woodland’s case, the poignancy rested in his odyssey to become a dad.
  — Ron Kroichick, SFChronicle.com, 16 June 2019
• Now that he's gone, of course, the life-and-death lyrics take on new poignancy, but songs like this assure his legacy.
  — Debby Wolfinsohn, EW.com, 27 June 2022
• The film bears more poignancy now in light of the death of Crowley, who passed away this past March after a heart attack at the age of 84.
  — Nick Romano, EW.com, 21 Aug. 2020
• When the tale shifts into a more somber mode, the performers deepen the poignancy.
  — Celia Wren, Washington Post, 18 Apr. 2023
• That no one knows this now gives the events of this week a strange retrospective poignancy.
  — Andrew Kay, Longreads, 17 July 2021
• The age question adds a certain poignancy to Biden’s quest for reform, in more ways than one.
  — Amy Davidson Sorkin, The New Yorker, 4 Aug. 2024
• The film is laced with dry humor but also poignancy and notes of melancholy.
  — David Rooney, The Hollywood Reporter, 19 Feb. 2024
• But the play ends with heart and poignancy, as well as the hope that perhaps the family’s final storm has passed.
  — San Diego Union-Tribune, 30 Jan. 2023
• The trouble is that, for all the comedy and the poignancy of this central concept, the movie requires a plot.
  — Anthony Lane, The New Yorker, 3 Nov. 2023
• Time waits for no one, which is part of what lends the documentary its poignancy.
  — Matthew Carey, Deadline, 14 June 2024
• That’s not to say there isn’t poignancy in the paradox of a global superstar, adored by millions but saddened by the emptiness inside him, as John puts it.
  — David Rooney, The Hollywood Reporter, 12 Sep. 2024
• With war spreading in the Middle East and conflicts ongoing elsewhere around the world, the poignancy of programming in this area has been amplified this year.
  — Jesse Whittock, Deadline, 15 Oct. 2024

Last Updated: 8 Dec 2024