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How to use poignantly in a sentence

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A beautiful, poignantly awkward black began to emerge, foreshadowing his coming figurative work.
The theme of the two-part survey was, poignantly, the derealization induced by contemporary media overload.
Even the painting's nominal portrait subject, the artist's son clutching a favorite doll, slips rather poignantly out of focus.
The close-ups of the girls' faces poignantly captured their emotions in ways words never could.
His protagonists are poignantly human, but Frears avoids the temptation of turning them into beatific Christ figures or walking billboards.
At the same time, utter nihilism is staved off with some incisive and poignantly human touches.
The narrative of Gatsby's downfall poignantly exposes the seedy underbelly of the American dream.
The dignity of male grief is poignantly explored by alternating outbursts of frustration with consoling movements of group solidarity.
Few films have so fluently, so poignantly and amusingly, described contemporary Britons' attempts to overcome the shock of otherness.
The film catalogues his cross-country journey to confront old flames and discover the truth in a poignantly comedic way.
The truncation of each episode resounds poignantly, leaving us stranded in atonement with moral handgrips denied.
Most poignantly, Frusciante stands stagefront with his eyes closed, lashing out searing solos that seem to come from a very private place.
His film of the gallery poignantly documents how out of place human beings can be in Mies' architecture.
Most poignantly, Mary recalls a young boy who took her fancy all those years ago and she arranges a reunion with him despite not having spoken together for almost 30 years.
The strings sigh, and the woodwinds are poignantly beautiful.
He poignantly renders his expression of regret that the antiwar movement could not stop that war.
He had endured many minor ailments, indicative of overstrain, in the past months, during which he had never acted more poignantly.
The afflictions of a person suffering from terminal cancer were poignantly portrayed in the film, which also dwelt on the strengths of holistic medicine.
A thirty-something Mexican was poignantly aware how badly one preteen wanted to become a professional footballer.
Family members poignantly re-enact for the camera this troubling episode in their life.
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Examples from Classical Literature
She had suffered so much, so poignantly, that at last her emotions had grown sluggish.
Who are the gentlefolk the loss of whose patronage to the Feydau will be so poignantly felt?
There was something too poignantly sad about the unfulfilled hope of the picture.
Of this fact I became aware very early, and felt poignantly the lack of my own kind.
For the moment he poignantly regretted that rumor was not true, and that his eleven millions were not in reality thirty millions.
Never so poignantly had he felt the insistence of the carpe diem.
The exclamation poignantly voiced the esteem in which Krebs was held.
To look on beautiful things is only to feel more poignantly the passing of bright days, and the time when the petals must leave the rose.
This the lieutenant felt most poignantly, and this was the reason he leant his head against the window, and sighed so deeply.
She missed him poignantly, with all the force of her protecting passion.
She was dimly aware of the scathing intention lurking in these soft low tones, in these words which appealed to her poignantly.
He was smoking his cigar with a poignantly mocking air and not even looking at me.
With heart-stopping drama and emotional intensity, Opening Night poignantly exhibits the suffering and agony that survivors bear throughout their lives.
Pages of blackness lit only by tiny white twinkling's emphasize this loss poignantly, while Mae and her dog look out the somberly lit window, bereft.
Although he did not comprehend it, he apprehended it no less poignantly than do men who know and generalize far more deeply and widely than mere four-legged dogs.
And so poignantly did he remember, that he became wide awake, and many pictures, beginning, with the girl babe, burned their torment in his brain.
Arnold's poetry, therefore, is to be viewed as largely the expression, monotonous but often poignantly beautiful, of a temporary mood of questioning protest.
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