The Only Use of "poignant" in "The Great Gatsby"

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The Only Use

poignant
in
The Great Gatsby
(Edited)

At the enchanted metropolitan twilight I felt a haunting loneliness sometimes, and felt it in others — poor young clerks who loitered in front of windows waiting until it was time for a solitary restaurant dinner — young clerks in the dusk, wasting the most poignant moments of night and life.
p. 57.1

poignant = sharpest (filled with feeling)

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(1) (poignant)
sharp or intense -- typically arousing deep emotion such as sadness, but possibly having or creating a sharp smell, taste, or insight
(2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)