Sentence examples for as a poignant example from inspiring English sources

This approach struck me as a poignant example of the engagement, participation, and perhaps even downright reversal of traditional roles involved in oral history that makes the method unique.

His popularity grew after he survived an assassination attempt by a Turkish gunman in 1981, and in his later years, his slow decline from Parkinson's disease was seen as a poignant example of one man facing death without fear.

The fishing industry in Mozambique serves as a poignant example.

He expressed a view of sexual relationships that stuck in my mind as a poignant example of the corruscating lack of self-belief that for some in the past was so damaging to notions of self and, thus, the potential for racial advancement.

This system came to be known as "limited democracy". A poignant example occurred in 1972, when Napoleón Duarte, the Christian Democratic candidate, lost the presidency through electoral fraud.

I believe in the spark of divinity in every human being; your description of Adam and his empathy for others as a young child was a poignant example of that spark.

"It was a poignant example about shame," she said.

Here's a poignant example of slow gone fast.

It is a poignant example of the times we live in.

A poignant example is "The Foundling" (1870), in which a desperate young mother hides on one side of a fence as a gentleman with a lantern picks up the baby she has abandoned in a basket on the other side.

There was a poignant example of this in the case of 19-year-old Petra Blanksby.