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poignance

noun as in pathos

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Despite Hank’s awfulness, he has a pathetic poignance.

Some entries will take on added poignance, Frémaux noted, due to current events.

Another “Fall Guy” co-star — an attack dog that responds only to commands in French — had particular poignance for Gosling.

It’s also a movie that, while full of poignance, is as lushly and uniquely imaginative as his earlier masterworks, like “Spirited Away” or “Kiki’s Delivery Service.”

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.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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