Sentence examples for poignant affection from inspiring English sources

Dressed informally — William wears a blue blazer and a windowpane shirt unbuttoned at the neck, while Harry wears a casual cornflower-blue shirt — and speaking in the dialect known as Estuary English, which has become the vernacular both of the upper and middle classes since their parents' generation, the princes remember her with poignant affection.

He is viewed by the author with amused and sometimes poignant affection ("Nostalgia, from Gk nostos 'return home' + algos 'pain' 'the return-home-pain of twenty years old'".) The portentous note that has sometimes been Amis's fatal flaw is mostly played here for comedy.

Dressed informally William wears a blue blazer and a windowpane shirt unbuttoned at the neck, while Harry wears a casual cornflower-blue shirt and speaking in the dialect known as Estuary English, which has become the vernacular both of the upper and middle classes since their parents' generation, the princesremember her with poignant affection.

The care of those around them, a poignant instance, a fleeting moment of affection and myriad sediments of tenderness, these may coalesce in the mind of a new mother to chase away, like an industrious fan with a harsh yet invigorating breeze, all inappropriate thoughts and unpleasant feelings.

As Happy, the younger son forever in pursuit of Dad's affection, Finn Wittrock provides a funny, poignant and ripely detailed study in virile vanity as a defense system.

Peter"s poignant tribute to his lifelong friend expresses that affection more eloquently than words from anyone else.

Carillo paints perhaps the most poignant portrait of Connors, the self-described loner, by recounting what she describes as his "affection and loyalty" to Vitas Gerulaitis, during a postcareer period when Gerulaitis "was becoming a drug addict".

The biggest ovations, and well deserved, went to the German soprano Anja Harteros as the Countess; in both her poignant singing and her vulnerable presence, she conveyed hurt and shame over the loss of her husband's affection.

This can be a real person--celebrities are especially attractive to writers of one-person shows, as the audience walks in with familiarity and often affection -- or a fictional character with whom the playwright is determined to make some pertinent, poignant or universal point.

Locked into a downward spiral of increasingly competitive affection, Wiig's dissolute heroine becomes the unintentional thorn in the bride-to-be's side, with unexpectedly poignant results.

Poignant, even.