Maybe my son is exceptionally tender-hearted, but there is heavy pathos in poignance in this film.    From Wordnik.com.  [Has the Wild Rumpus Begun Yet?] Reference

But it also adds impact and poignance to Douglas's work.    From Wordnik.com.  [Michael Douglas in 'Wall Street': When life elevates art] Reference

The poignance of this love story lies in its impossibility.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Curious Case of Benjamin Button] Reference

The day was one of many moods: nostalgia, poignance, hilarity.    From Wordnik.com.  [Going Home to Glory] Reference

Most important, it captures the poignance of the series' best books.    From Wordnik.com.  [Archive 2010-03-01] Reference

The hours dragged for both, and with as much poignance for Clyde as for.    From Wordnik.com.  [An American Tragedy] Reference

Throughout, Chabon's prose moves elegantly from humor to honesty to poignance.    From Wordnik.com.  [Manhood for Amateurs: Summary and book reviews of Manhood for Amateurs by Michael Chabon.] Reference

As mortality looms, his memories take on the weight of poignance – and so on.    From Wordnik.com.  [Teach Us to Sit Still by Tim Parks] Reference

It is a shout that assumes an extra poignance in the current political climate.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Passover Haggadah] Reference

How can they understand the poignance, and significance, of this moment for her?.    From Wordnik.com.  [Guardsman Of Gor]

"There is a poignance in listening to Ralph Nader these days," Rothschild writes.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Media Consortium: Weekly Audit: Protect Consumers, Not Wall Street] Reference

Obama, a master of poignance, can also be devastatingly funny in the appropriate setting.    From Wordnik.com.  [State of the Union? Hyperwired] Reference

And how true it is that those who follow in his wake "do not possess his special poignance.".    From Wordnik.com.  [The Source of Sur-Realism] Reference

Fiona, for all of her shoulder-shrugging, hip-thrusting brashness, was a picture of poignance.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Old Silent]

It had a certain quiet poignance of a Hopper painting, or a vintage, moody fashion photograph.    From Wordnik.com.  [All the mad men and all the mad women are looking for meaningful work] Reference

The song that began this review, "Ain't No Grave," has a poignance that goes beyond the obvious.    From Wordnik.com.  [Voice From The Darkness: Johnny Cash's Final Record] Reference

There are a couple of surprises at the ending, which achieves an unexpected but deserved poignance.    From Wordnik.com.  [Wait Until Twilight -- Sang Pak] Reference

McCain's support of the war has more poignance because of the fact that his son signed up to serve.    From Wordnik.com.  [Rudy’s family ties - Swampland - TIME.com] Reference

And that's what gives all these musical numbers such poignance and, in a funny way, makes them so timely.    From Wordnik.com.  [Screening The 'Homefront': War Musicals On DVD] Reference

"In just about two months I'll be free to leave," she said, her smile a fixture of satisfaction and poignance.    From Wordnik.com.  [Baby Magic]

Sadly, the recent death of Richard Harris adds a special poignance to his final turn as the great wizard Dumbledore.    From Wordnik.com.  [Mild About 'Harry'] Reference

Nicole the years slipped away by clock and calendar and birthday, with the added poignance of her perishable beauty.    From Wordnik.com.  [Tender is the Night] Reference

But it's the faces, voices and personalities of the pilgrims themselves that give the series its power and poignance.    From Wordnik.com.  [When Heaven Turned To Hell] Reference

MILES O'BRIEN, CNN ANCHOR: We begin this morning marking an anniversary tinged with poignance and perhaps some promise.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript - Sunday Morning News: Korean War Anniversary Comes on Heels of Cooling Relations Between North and South Korea - June 25, 2000] Reference

Will the show be able to sustain its mix of poignance and pop-music frivolity for another full season without getting stale?.    From Wordnik.com.  [Songs that should be covered in 'Glee' season two] Reference

The smug look changed now and was replaced with one that was a little misty and perhaps filled with some as-yet-undefined poignance.    From Wordnik.com.  [Unprecedented weirdness] Reference

From the movie's opening images of a clock tower and a watch, this love story gains poignance from the pressure of ticking mortality.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Kiss Is Not Just A Kiss] Reference

And especially going to Israel and talking about Hitler, that had a poignance that I think made it an especially jagged kind of criticism.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript May 15, 2008] Reference

Nor through remembered poignance pluck her strings.    From Wordnik.com.  [Perpetual Light : a memorial] Reference

There was special poignance to this year's commemoration.    From Wordnik.com.  [New Haven Independent] Reference

His stories always have this poignance and sadness to them.    From Wordnik.com. Reference

Thus, the scene neither has enough action nor enough poignance to work.    From Wordnik.com.  [Fernham] Reference

A little poignance, a lot of laughter as Jerry Lewis preps for MDA telethon.    From Wordnik.com.  [Las Vegas Sun Stories: All Sun Headlines] Reference

Starr's recipe is shared with special poignance, since she lost her mother in April.    From Wordnik.com.  [BlogHer] Reference

His rockers swaggered, but were underlined by a knowing, been-around-the-block poignance.    From Wordnik.com.  [chicagotribune.com -] Reference

Ohanami's poignance is symbolized in the glimpse of a cherry blossom petal floating earthward.    From Wordnik.com.  [news | TL | http://www.tuscaloosanews.com] Reference

And now his arms ached for her again with a poignance which made all other things insignificant.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Plunderer] Reference

There is a particular poignance in looking back now on those happy days two years before the war.    From Wordnik.com.  [Shandygaff] Reference

Watching Joe learn how to raise his sons is an experience filled with poignance, pain and pleasure.    From Wordnik.com. Reference

I think the straight arrow going astray is what gives this story what very little poignance it has.    From Wordnik.com. Reference