adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a poignant reminder (= making you feel sad )
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I see Kathy's death as a poignant reminder that we sometimes really are powerless.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADVERB
more
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His writings were sharpened and made more poignant by his troubles.
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Autumn, with its gold and red, makes the passing of time even more poignant .
most
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Certainly, the most poignant part of Mr Wright's history is the fate of the Cherokees.
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The differences between rich and poor are perhaps most significant, most visible, and most poignant in the lives of chil-dren.
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One of the most poignant studies is of a graceful ten-year-old girl who drowned a few years later in a Mississippi boating accident.
particularly
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Nothing: that's a particularly poignant kind of pain.
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For a visitor from Boston, this show is particularly poignant .
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The setting might appear incongruous but it can also be seen as being particularly poignant .
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There was a particularly poignant one from the United States.
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Anna's end is particularly poignant because there is a continuous theme of death throughout the book.
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For them it was a particularly poignant one.
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Delivery performance is particularly poignant and assumes a high visibility.
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The plan, beautifully drawn and lettered, as are all the plans of this period, is particularly poignant .
■ NOUN
moment
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Portraits of young men in uniform, many of whom never returned, make a poignant moment in most twentieth-century family collections.
reminder
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Somehow it was a poignant reminder that the eternal things do not change.
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Yesterday's report from Body Shop was a poignant reminder of the fate that can await highly-rated companies.
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Surely it is a poignant reminder of the capacity of the human being to suffer mental anguish.
story
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It is a poignant story this, and an unnerving one.
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Several months after we first met, she tells me a revealing and poignant story of her first day at college.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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a poignant love story
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In a poignant moment, Richter interrupted his speech to thank his mother and father.
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This is one of her most beautiful and poignant works.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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And in this case there is a poignant link between the two.
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Everything became too poignant for us, for both of us.
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It was a poignant film, which she wished had been longer.
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Lanchbery uses Chopin's poignant Andante Spinato to express Natalia's realisation that love has now escaped her.
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Santiago has crafted a poignant tale that celebrates the human spirit and the triumph of will.
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Several months after we first met, she tells me a revealing and poignant story of her first day at college.
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The poignant music drifted into the coffee-house, and Meredith settled back on the Victorian chair to enjoy it and her surroundings.
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The fact that the Grimkes came of notable Southern Huguenot stock made their case especially poignant .