Sentence examples for poignant expression from inspiring English sources

Watson details Shiki's long struggle with tuberculosis and its poignant expression in his poetry.

His answer was yes, always (underlined), and the exchange is a poignant expression of distance and inadequacy.

We saw visible and poignant expression of those connections this year, including in emotional campus protests demanding justice for black men and women in America.

Ms. Oropesa began with a wistful Handel aria, "Nemmen con l'Ombre d'Infedeltà" from "Serse," a poignant expression of abiding love, sung with beguiling tenderness and warm sound.

It's a strange sight, the English village houses cheek by jowl with ancient monoliths, but it's a poignant expression of what this whole area is about: successive layers of human history hard up against each other.

Depending on your point of view, the Times Building can thus be read as a poignant expression of nostalgia or a reassertion of the paper's highest values as it faces an uncertain future.

From coast to coast, at gatherings of women from widely varied backgrounds, the focus group leaders heard heartfelt and poignant expressions of frustration, disappointment and even discouragement.

One of the most poignant expressions against the FARC could be seen outside the United Nations headquarters in New York, where hundreds of demonstrators gathered.

His death evoked poignant expressions of regret from President Thabo Mbeki and the ANC leadership, among whom he was held in high regard.

Besides virtuoso imitations of Baudelaire and Leconte de Lisle, Poèmes saturniens included poignant expressions of love and melancholy supposedly centred on his cousin Élisa, who married another and died in 1867 (she had paid for this book to be published).

Here is one of the most poignant expressions of the psychological phenomenon of "projection".