Sentence examples for less poignant from inspiring English sources

That it was no big surprise did not make it less poignant.

This fatalism, which should make their extermination less poignant, only makes it more so.

That neither the subject nor date can be confirmed doesn't make the picture any less poignant.

Unsurprisingly, this doesn't make the slaughter any less poignant or dismaying.

The art by the New Yorkers, who are much younger, is no less poignant.

YEARS of mental preparation for this fateful day don't make it any less poignant or bittersweet.

And as I grew older the unfolding of Dorothea's life became less immediately poignant to me than the story of Lydgate, who at the start of the book has the bold aim to "make a link in the chain of discovery," but who, thanks to his own misguided marriage, becomes a society doctor known for a treatise on gout — "a disease which has a good deal of wealth on its side," in Eliot's pointed observation.

And as I grew older the unfolding of Dorothea's life became less immediately poignant to me than the story of Lydgate, who at the start of the book has the bold aim to "make a link in the chain of discovery," but who, thanks to his own misguided marriage, becomes a society doctor known for a treatise on gout—"a disease which has a good deal of wealth on its side," in Eliot's pointed observation.

The NSA might have seen Friedman's talks or television interviews, because instead of mostly blacking out the text, this time they largely whited it out, making it much less visually poignant.

This is imperfect (the Bitcoin episode came off less than poignant in the hands of a too-goofy Jason Biggs, and "Chumhum" still feels kind of silly to say out loud), but, as Clive Thompson wrote over at Wired, the show "may be the best force for digital literacy in pop culture right now".

But sometimes the doings of the four-star drunk are less brazen, more poignant.