Sentence examples for a poignant sight from inspiring English sources
Weathered, mottled, and missing several teeth, the skull of a carpenter from the Mary Rose is a poignant sight.
It was a poignant sight to see the moms and dads crouching for "one last kiss" from tiny puckers behind the chainlink fence.
A life jacket from the Costa Concordia is a particularly poignant sight; other stories including those of Titanic survivors and Steven Callahan are also fascinating.
They looked like beasts and trees, yet still, with their arms up and their feet turned out, they were eighteenth-century gentlemen, doing a dance — a weird and poignant sight.
Mr. Bush's appearance outside the Vilnius City Hall was a powerful and poignant sight for Lithuanians, and would have been an unthinkable moment for most of the past 60 years.
Anja Rabes's costumes strike a good balance between reality and fancy, but the most poignant sight is that of the dying Chloé stretched out on the stage floor and covered with flowers, as if already in her grave.
Act II opens on the poignant sight of brokenhearted village youth Hilarion (the compelling Roman Zhurbin) fashioning a simple cross out of wood and rope to place at the head of Giselle's grave.
The stage, initially bare apart from the poignant sight of small, brightly coloured coats hanging on pegs, gradually becomes like a giant but slightly sinister playground in which balloons become bombs, chalk marks out the school floor plan and a giant cat's cradle of string is the imprisoning gymnasium.
There was also the poignant sight of the promising 18-year-old American Madison Keys leaving the court in the gloaming in tears and unsuccessfully fighting to hold them back later as she discussed her second-round loss to Monica Puig of Puerto Rico.
HONG KONG Twenty years ago this week the West cheered the poignant sight of East Berliners joyously streaming through the gates of the Berlin Wall to once-forbidden freedom in the West.
