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It is a poignant story about a girl who is paralyzed in a car accident.poignant = arousing deep emotion
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Have you read MLK's poignant "Letter from Birmingham Jail"?
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It's not like I had some utterly poignant, well-lit memory of a healthy father pushing a healthy child and the child saying higher higher higher or some other metaphorically resonant moment. (source)poignant = intensely touching the emotions
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Her most poignant memories were unknown dates of family members disappearing down the lane. (source)poignant = arousing deep emotion
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Of course, it was Owen Meany who experienced the most poignant encounters with my mother's dummy. (source)poignant = intensely emotional
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Small things, mildly depressing things, suddenly become too poignant to bear. (source)poignant = intensely sad
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He still thought about his mother and his three-year-old sister, and he had moments of sadness and depression. But he and Nwoye had become so deeply attached to each other that such moments became less frequent and less poignant. (source)poignant = emotionally intense
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A little girl with gold hoops in her ears and ugly scabs on her brow—did she feel, as he did, goodness and warmth and poignancy when he helped Doc dab iodine on her sores? (source)poignancy = deep emotion
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She spoke with that gentle, infinitesimal inflection of mockery which descended to her from her mother, but later that evening the words came back to me poignantly. (source)poignantly = sharply or with intense feeling
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It was preeminently the smell of the human body after it had been used to the limit, such a smell as has meaning and poignance for any athlete, just as it has for any lover. (source)poignance = deep emotional impact
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"Lee was definitely voted out," said Cynthia, "and what made it so poignant was that the people who voted him out were his friends and disciples." (source)poignant = intensely sad
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He had seen the sadness, the richness, the tragic poignancy of a way of life that each year, bit by bit, slipped beyond memory and was gone. (source)poignancy = intense sadness
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The last note hovered poignantly in the silence.† (source)poignantly = in a sharp or intense manner
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The hours dragged for both, and with as much poignance for Clyde as for Roberta.† (source)poignance = sharpness or intenseness
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I knew that all children had certain precious belongings, odd things that represented happiness to them, but the way she cradled that case in her hand seemed poignant to me, emblematic of some sort of deprivation that she could feel but not define, or, maybe, admit to. (source)poignant = intensely sad
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With poignancy, Sissy realized that he was growing up. (source)poignancy = deeply felt emotion -- perhaps sadness
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