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Sentences starting with poignant

Poignant impulses in her stilled, pity lost its wounding acuteness. [11]

Sentences ending with poignant

But Insall's jokes, while they stripped it of sentimentality of which she had an instinctive dislike--made it for her even more poignant. [9]
My loathing of solitude grew extreme; my recollection of my sisters intolerably poignant. [14]
Its concision and simplicity were poignant. [11]
The sting of despair had somehow been taken out of it, and it remained poignant! [9]

More example sentences with the word poignant in them

Ah, dear friend, you are happy not to know these poignant joys and sorrows. [2]
Perhaps all this will become less poignant in time. [14]
Memory of her was only poignant, in so far as it was associated with the days preceding the wreck of the Antoine. [11]
Sometimes on these walks--especially if the day were grey and sombre--Janet's sense of romance and adventure deepened, became more poignant, charged with presage. [9]
Now and then, the silence of the house, the solitude of the room, has pressed on me with a weight I found it difficult to bear, and recollection has not failed to be as alert, poignant, obtrusive, as other feelings were languid. [14]
His self-reproach was the more poignant because it was silent. [11]
Both had followed the gospel of helpfulness to others, but one as a religieuse, innocent of the sin around her, though poignant of the sorrow it caused. [9]
At the words the flaming exhilaration of the man's face vanished and his eyes took on a poignant, distant look. [11]
It may be that in very truth Fleda Druse's spirit with its poignant solicitude controlled his will as he "rose up to depart. [11]
Then more poignant than all other argument was the fact that he did not want to take her away from Surprise Valley. [13]
But there was still nothing definite, nothing better than a vague discomfort, however poignant, in his half recognition of such facts; and he descended the station stairs at Chatham Square with a sense of the neglected opportunities of painters in that locality. [8]
Tragedy, poignant misery, rang through every note, swelled in a stream which drowned the senses. [11]
Then come and pray with me in the cathedral, and after that we will cast up accounts--to-morrow," he said, with a poignant and exultant malice. [11]
Something of the peace of Hamley had followed her to London, but the poignant pain of it had come also. [11]
The thought of my wanderings since then became poignant, almost terrifying. [9]
At other and more poignant moments he saw her as waving him bravely on while he steamed out through towering seas to safety. [9]
Kitty thought him magnificent as he told his story with a simple parsimony but a careful choice of words which made every syllable poignant with effect. [11]
It was not made less poignant by the sermon from the text: "Mene, Mene, Tekel, Upharsin. [11]
All had that horrible quietness of despair so much more poignant than tears and wailing. [11]
The edge of her wit had become poignant, her speech rendered logical and allusive. [11]
The sight of Guida's face the day before had given a poignant pulse to his emotions, unlike the broken rhythm of past comedies of sentiment and melodramas of passion. [11]
He looked at Grassette with a look of poignant pity and interest combined. [11]
Even now a fragrance, faint yet poignant, clung to it.... She wrapped it up again, walked to the window, hesitated, and then with a sudden determination to destroy this sole relic of her happiness went to the kitchen and flung it into the stove. [9]
Honora lay awake for a long time that night, and the poignant and ever recurring remembrance of her husband's remark sent the blood to her face like a flame. [9]
O fool, poor fool, Well, we have laughed together, you and I. O fond insulter, in the healing pool Of your deep poignant raillery I lie. [11]
Curtains of mauve and saffron-red were hung behind them, and through a break of cloud fringing the horizon a yellow glow poured, to touch the tips of the pyramids with poignant splendour. [11]
This peculiar family affection she evinced was beyond me; I had never experienced it in any poignant degree since I had gone as a freshman to Harvard, and yet I was struck by the fact that her emotions were so rightly placed. [9]
Presently there came a poignant edge to his trailing tones. [11]

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