poignance
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Some entries will take on added poignance, Frémaux noted, due to current events.
From Seattle Times ● Apr. 11, 2024
The set was as delightfully bratty and hooky as you’d expect, with the added poignance of watching a band that beat both cancer and an expensive UFO-hunting hobby running at full steam again.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 8, 2023
Williams’ announcement had particular poignance given that she stepped away from tennis last year, saying she had to in order to have a second child.
From Washington Times ● May 1, 2023
In the wake of DiNizio's untimely death in 2017, "The Lost Album" takes on a special poignance.
From Salon ● Sep. 24, 2022
It is therefore easily to be understood that whatever other emotions connect themselves with satisfied expectation are at their ideal poignance in the case of rhythm.
From The Psychology of Beauty by Ethel Dench Puffer Howes
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