poignancy

There is a poignancy that Sir Billy departed soon after her.

From BBC ● Aug. 25, 2026

Burrows would himself be the victim of a helicopter crash over Laos in 1971, bringing renewed interest and poignancy to this photograph.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 1, 2026

Seven years later, revisiting the poem has carried an added poignancy.

From BBC ● Jun. 9, 2026

But the live performances found poignancy in the city’s spirit as a music town.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 8, 2026

With poignancy, Sissy realized that he was growing up.

From "A Tree Grows in Brooklyn" by Betty Smith

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

McGinley began to find her own voice and to extol the pleasures and poignancies of the hearth, Memorial Day parades, the smell of charcoal grills, the damp loafers on the lawn.

From Time Magazine Archive

What is left is an abundant supply of jokes together with jarring poignancies.

From Time Magazine Archive

He had, of course, grown ashamed of such confiding fancies, and as he had become more confident had shoved away, with stout, determined fingers, those dim memories, poignancies, regrets.

From The Golden Scarecrow by Sir Hugh Walpole