This vicarious sacrifice adds a new poignancy to the situation and Yeats has treated it with power.
A whiff of the wild rose will bring back in all the poignancy of sad happiness a train of ancient memories old faces, old scenes, old loves--and the wild thoughts I had when a boy.
But at the moment his bitter query, the essential attitude of spirit which lay behind it, struck into me with a poignancy that stopped me where I stood.
Balance the happiness which during its existence it gave to those who survived, with the poignancy and the duration of pain caused by the loss.
They were in their favourite grove, and between kisses John was indulging in some romantic forebodings which he fancied added poignancyto their relations.
A rather pathetic poignancyin her question brought his eyes back to her.
By exhibiting the humorous incompatibility between his destiny and his descent, he strove to show, at one and the same time, both the absurdity of all pride in blood, and the ironic poignancy of his own apparent defeat.
At last he shared a feeling with his classmates, a fond sadness, an illimitable poignancy that was young and unadulterated by motive.
Fresh from newspaper instruction of the deadness of the deadlock, the poignancy of the crisis, or the stupendity of the achievement, one rather expected one's own personal world to stand still and watch it.
She was his wife; he never could get away from the poignancy of that phrase.
Nevertheless Mrs. Perch found pleasures therein, and the way in which her face then lit up added, to Sabre, an indescribable poignancy to the pathos of the picture.
In any event, the cry pierced the air for the third time, and, though it seemed ghostly and unhuman, its poignancy was distressing.
It seems that is the way with those we love," said Felice with a poignancy that did not escape Hal.
The words had barely been uttered when out of the gloomy hut came a heart-rending cry, muffled and unintelligible, yet full of poignancy and human wretchedness.
And I'm not thirty," said Carmichael with a poignancy in his voice that did not escape Hal.
The familiar scene emphasized her sense of dependence upon him and gave a sweet poignancy to the memories of her childhood and youth that were enshrined within the cottage walls.
Old, unhappy, far-off things, and battles long ago" lose their poignancy of pain and take on the poignancy of beauty.
Her perceptions were not of the kind that admit great poignancy either of wretchedness or of bliss.
No sophistry I could summon was sufficient to assuage the poignancy of this sentiment.
It is by no means unlikely that the sense of her own impaired importance added poignancy to her misery.
The reader may imagine the poignancy of Mildred's emotions as she sat beside Allen Musgrove and his daughter on the knoll, and watched the busy and stirring scene before her.
In these offices of love, the poignancy of her own grief began to give way to the natural sweetness of her temper, and they were observed, in the same degree, to enliven Mildred's feelings.
It is the horrible contrast between my dreams and their realization that gives the keenest poignancy to my pangs.
I feel small doubt that his own sufferings will be hardly inferior in poignancy to mine.
Yet there was an infinite poignancy about her, a great pathos in her lonely, proudly closed mouth.
Ursula had to go back to her friend brimming with affection and a poignancyof pity.
There was a fineness about her, a poignancy about the way she sat and held her head lifted.
Now that she had wrenched the fact out, the poignancy of her suffering subsided; even by degrees she realised that, after this, her leaving the town was inevitable, and her thoughts began to concern themselves vaguely with her future.
The poignancy of her grief gradually subsided into the calm of despair.
As time softened the poignancy of her past sorrows, she mingled more and more in the social circles of that metropolis where pleasure and gayety ever reign.
Not that those outgoings took her away from the place she had devastated; it was out of the poignancy of her feeling about the harm she had done, out of her new grief in it that these new questionings were born.
Her beauty stabbed him with the poignancy of what was past.
The procession is then resumed, the performers weeping crocodile tears and emphasising the poignancy of their grief by the help of saucepans and dinner bells.
Therefore, there enters into these designs, which contain after all only the same sort of skill which was rife in Italy, so much homeliness at once, and poignancy and sublimity of imagination.
