Sentence examples for and poignant in a from inspiring English sources

Tessa Victoria was funny and poignant in a crisp yet intensely emotional performance full of quick shifts of dynamics.

I found her near-primal silence realistic and poignant in a handful of scenes: in moments of true agony, language really can become pared back to its bare bones, leaving just enough energy to spit out brusque bilious sentences like "You bastard" or "This is our family".

It's the back half of the "Arthur" syndrome at work: Dudley Moore's drunk was amusing and poignant in the original 1981 film but an embarrassment in "Arthur II" in 1988.

Bo Chang, a singer and actress, was powerful and poignant in her featured role.

BAGHDAD — The sounds echoed Tuesday through Investigations Square, mundane in their familiarity and poignant in their anguish.

South London looks both mysterious and poignant in Pissarro's painting.

Quadrilateral Cowboy is a neat pocket of only-just-satisfying puzzles and poignant storytelling in a bite-size.exe.exe

In the end, Harry has to destroy his own creation -- he has to unmake the fragile, imaginative world he has made for himself -- and it's funny and poignant and, in a weird way, genuinely heroic.

If the similarities between the REVII teaser and "Home" point toward anything, it's a tonal shift in the Resi series from big budget zombie slaying to subdued horror, induced by paranoia and regression, poignant in an age obsessed with technology, misinformation, and surveillance.

Ultimately, each of us has a twin waiting at home -- the face in the mirror -- and Walcott is at his most poignant in a frank appraisal of his own: Threescore and ten plus one past our allotment, in the morning mirror, the disassembled man.

That's poignant in a way, right?