The phrase "poignant day" is grammatically correct and can be used in written English.
It refers to a day that is emotionally or mentally moving, often in a sad or thoughtful way. Example sentence: "After months of planning and anticipation, the wedding day finally arrived. It was a poignant day for both the bride and groom, as they were reminded of all the memories and experiences that led them to this moment."
It was, presumably, a poignant day for Mrs. Clinton, who found herself back on Air Force One for the first time since leaving the White House.
The sound of children playing was recorded by Daniel Williams, at Brean in Somerset, on a particularly poignant day for his family.
For some, it was a chance to see McCain on a particularly poignant day, coming to Zanesville 41 years to the day when he was shot down during a bombing raid on Hanoi, South Vietnam in 1967.
But for those five family members -- and for two firefighters who ran into their blazing apartment, crawled down a smoke-filled hallway and shared their air packs with the trapped woman, her brother and her three children until help arrived -- it was a day of survival and heroism, a poignant day to remember.
And it will be a particularly poignant day for Winston Churchill's "secret army", who will be parading at the Cenotaph on Remembrance Sunday for the first time.
I don't think I'll ever have a more poignant day in my career.
Lange shared her thoughts about acting and about playing Mary Tyrone, a lapsed morphine addict married to a devoted ham actor with two sons battling their own addictions in early-twentieth-century New England, in the current revival of Eugene O'Neill's poignant "Long Day's Journey Into Night".
Braylon Edwards made a series of poignant observations Sunday in the aftermath of the Jets' stunning victory over the San Diego Chargers.
That decision became even more poignant during Wednesday's conference call, when they learned of that evening's terrorist attacks in Mumbai.
This mix of nationalities becomes all the more poignant on Monday, when we visit the Statue of Liberty and Ellis Island, the stopping-off point for 100 million immigrants into America during the 20th century.
One of the most poignant is "Christmas Day in Willesden Green" (more assimilation to a Christian world).
