Sentence examples for poignant air from inspiring English sources

THERE is a poignant air, almost wistful, to electing a pope in the modern world.

Her poignant air of beleaguered crispness is in contrast to a rather soggy play (2 20).

Though Daniel Sullivan's staging is too easy--+going to build tension, the play exhales a poignant air of autumnal rue (2 00).

Though Daniel Sullivan's staging is too easygoing to build tension, the play exhales a poignant air of autumnal rue (2 00).

23 East 73rd Street Manhattan Through Feb. 10 The work of artists who never escape the shadows of other artists often has an air of poignant, determined striving.

Throughout the stories here, Goldschmidt interlaces big ideas about the physical nature of the Universe with poignant personal narratives, an air of melancholy pervading through the stories as often lonely individuals struggle to reconcile their personal and professional lives.

Seated next to her at the front of the room waiting to speak was Lawrence Lemon, a man from Columbus, Ohio, whose poignant story of how air pollution impacted his family would make the woman's claims sound insouciant.

Watching wasted genius, a life gone wrong, is compelling and poignant, but with "Doc", airing December 9, at 10PM on PBS Independent Lenss, we feel much more like guests doing a post-mortem on a private party where the drinks may have been dosed.

Journalists held up their press cards as members of the public silently raised pens in the air in a poignant symbol against what is being seen as an attack on freedom of speech.

The quiet swish of their fishing lines whipping through the air makes a poignant accompaniment to the sight of the familiar, majestic mountain now literally defaced by the very forces that formed it.

Meanwhile, a Senate hearing that included witnesses from the shooting in Newtown, Conn., aired exchanges both poignant and petulant.