As a spinally-anaesthetized subject may have a quite poignant interest in the lopping off of one of his own limbs, and may even wonder that he feels no local pain, so she assisted at her own dismemberment.
How Sarah Midget rises, in the shock of a great tragedy, to supreme heights of self-sacrifice, is shown in poignant and moving scenes.
And now a new element of complication was added to the already sufficiently poignant tragedy by the entry of the Irish Catholic bishops on the scene.
In the three days of the poignantmountain air Barbara had seemed to Patricia to be more like her old self.
To realise this was to endure very poignant spiritual anguish.
But the most poignant memory of that little visit had been watching, unobserved, her stepmother reading to herself a letter from Jon.
So, by habit, she phrased what, from the expression of her face, was the most poignant regret.
The suffering in their pale and patient faces stirred in him a poignant sympathy.
Her soft, clinging black gown, with a touch of white at her throat, served to emphasise the sweet purity of her face, but cast over it a shade of sadness at once poignant and tender.
It was here that she formed an intimacy with the daughter of Colonel Orme, who resided near the Elms, and which proved a source of poignant sorrow to all the members of her family.
For such a marriage will separate the woman from all intimate connection with her pious friends, and she will thus become to them a source of deep and poignant sorrow.
A more silent though not less poignant grief marked the countenances of her father and Mr. Reed.
There, in the quietude of his own berth, he pondered over this new discovery, which was accompanied by a train of novel and poignant emotions.
Never was a burst of natural sorrow so poignantin suffering as that forced laugh, when, covered with shame, I sat there, beneath the sarcastic insolence of the wretch, who seemed to gloat over the tortures he was inflicting.
Many would doubtless say that this was not any great sacrifice,--need not have cost me any very poignant sufferings; but they would be wrong.
That last poignantappeal brought Kurt to his senses.
She had voiced the same poignant appeal to her brother Jim.
He leaned against a crooked old gate-post that as a boy he had climbed, and the thought came to him that this spot would all his life be vivid and poignant in his memory.
Lenore was fighting many emotions now, the one most poignant being a wild desire to escape, which battled with an equally maddening one to hide her face on his breast.
Kurt sensed something poignantin the feelings of the men, especially Olsen.
It is hardly necessary to say, however, that our dreams are often much morepoignant than the actual sensations caused by real occurrences would be.
She--frightened by the feeling that in this poignant silence they were becoming dangerously intimate--brought their reveries to an abrupt end by jumping up.
There was the same poignant sadness about his mouth, the same soft beard and sensitive nose; there was the same otherworldly kindliness in his eyes and his every gesture.
In the overwhelming sadness of victory, in the poignantwistfulness of triumph, she had regained her pride.
As yet, save for glances of a flashing ire and sullen silence, the Indians had made no demonstration, but it was a period of poignant doubt, like waiting for the falling of a sword suspended by a hair.
The frantic little owner seized the tail of the mignonne toute cherie, which sent up a wail of poignant discordance; the romping Hamish, with a wicked mimicry of the infantile babbling cry, "Quelle barbarie!
Those charms are greatest which decline the sight, That makes the banquet poignant and polite.
Once more his quickly illumined anger was kindled against Tarbetts, who had caused him a passing but poignant self-reproach.
Under what a tempest of conjectures she looked down and across the great hall to the closed and sentinelled door of that front drawing-room so rife with poignant recollections.
There were moments in this season of poignantmisery when I felt myself to be growing absolutely desperate.
In those distant days I had felt there was something in him; and now in what seemed curiously poignant circumstances there came the fulfilment of the prophecy.
He only remembered her with a feeling of poignant bitterness.
It had a poignant yet terrible charm of sheer novelty.
But he watched her from afar with a quiet yet absorbed look, that was not without meaning to Suberov, on whom, also, Sophy had made a deep and poignant impression.
A dark, smothering fear rushed over him--he was a brave man, but this vague, shadowy yetpoignant terror seemed to turn his very vitals to water.
After a long and poignant struggle with her own emotions the little Portuguese yielded to the wishes of her lord.
There was another pause--a pause fraught with poignant things.
Max's eyes closed, and the illusion of dead hours rose again, more vivid, more poignant than before.
The Irishman looked into his burning face, and a curious unnamable feeling thrilled him--a sense of enthusiasm, of profound sadness, of poignant envy.
Max insisted, drowning by insistence the poignant cry of the heart; and to this watchword he marched against fate.
Mathieu consented, and in the room upstairs he beheld one of the most frightful, poignantspectacles that he had ever witnessed.
The scene in the workroom, the revelation of Norine's condition, the fate awaiting the girl driven away into the bleak, icy streets, had revived all his own poignant worries with respect to Valerie.
He declined, but was conscious of a poignantsense of relief.
He staggered to his feet with poignant apprehensions of disaster.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "poignant" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
