poignancy

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• O’Leary’s photos have the poignancy of Edward Hopper’s emotionally charged paintings, but without the people.

• The poignancy of “Letters” comes from the juxtaposition of Jackson’s jaunty social persona and the occasional searing glimpses of a profoundly vulnerable woman.

• On the one hand, maybe there is a poignancy to the Olympics representing the current global situation.

• I’m not going to pretend that Cruella rivaled the poignancy of either of those other films.

• At present, that poignancy keeps thwacking me in the heart, the same heart I thought this skinny me would protect.

• The signs have a poignancy, says Moss, “because there is a tension in them in what they are not saying,” he says.

• Once edgily shocking, the show now feels rich with pathos and poignancy.

• The drive to find the cause and cure of autism rivals the urgency and poignancy to find the cause and cure of cancer.

• Either way, part of the tragedy and poignancy of polio is its preferential spread to babies and toddlers.

• My normalcy has its own poignancy and beauty to it that most hearing people will  never know.

• The recognition did not lessen the reality, the poignancy of the revelation by any suggestion or promise of instability.