Sentence examples for poignant event from inspiring English sources

The auction, on 22 November, will be a poignant event for him, however.

With the service taking place on Armistice Day, it became a particularly poignant event, drawing armed forces personnel, charities and many members of the public.

It was a truly poignant event that Don himself would have raved about for weeks.

A Film Premiere Tempered by Loss : Memories: Brandon Lee's death made the opening of Bruce Lee's bio a poignant event.

Another poignant event was This Is Not a Gun, a project by Cara Levine and Amanda Eicher, which was held at the Tenderloin Museum.

Hamdan's eloquent and restrained explanation for his boycott was the most poignant event in his hearing, but it was not the most explosive.

It was one of the most poignant events in the festival's history because the ailing star's appearance was doubtful until moments before he was wheeled onstage, and he was clearly summoning up fleeting reserves to play at all.

Poignant events were held in the UK, in northern France, Belgium and Afghanistan.

American speed skater Dan Jansen's personal tragedy was one of the more poignant events of the Games as he skated the 500 metre race mere hours after his sister Jane died of leukemia.

2013 marks the 50th anniversary of one of the most moving and poignant events of the last century - the delivery of the "I Have a Dream" speech on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial.

Perhaps it was his environment or perhaps it was fate, but a series of poignant events occurred before he was even eleven years old that solidified Costello's musical destiny.  .