All 4 Uses
poignant
in
The Plague
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- Sons who had lived beside their mothers hardly giving them a glance fell to picturing with poignant regret each wrinkle in the absent face that memory cast upon the screen.†
Part 2 *poignant = sharp or intense
- The evocations which at that time he found most poignant were-anyhow according to what he told Rieux-those of Paris.†
Part 2
- And in deference to this scruple he is constrained to admit that, though the chief source of distress, the deepest as well as the most widespread, was separation-and it is his duty to say more about it as it existed in the later stages of the plague-it cannot be denied that even this distress was coming to lose something of its poignancy.†
Part 3poignancy = deep emotional impact
- For the sensation, confused perhaps, but none the less poignant for that, of all those days and weeks and months of life lost to their love made them vaguely feel they were entitled to some compensation; this present hour of joy should run at half the speed of those long hours of waiting.†
Part 5poignant = sharp or intense
Definitions:
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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)