Sentence examples for poignant expressions from inspiring English sources

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.

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.

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".

From the Berlin Wall separating East Germany from West Germany, to the "democracy wall" in Beijing, people have chosen to demonstrate some of their most poignant expressions, frustrations and concerns about the world.

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

From the gently inquisitive opening trills to the graceful concluding Allegretto, Mr. Tetzlaff and Mr. Lonquich played with poise and charm, colorfully emphasizing the rhythmic accents of the Scherzo and illuminating the heart-stopping loveliness of the Adagio with poignant expression.

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.

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.

He knows that buying a fancy coffin for his tragic mother, an addict who died on the street when he was child, is a poignant expression of unresolved regret and guilt, even if the show has him simplemindedly congratulating himself for it.

LONDON — On the day when Rupert Murdoch retreated from the biggest media takeover bid in Britain's history, the wider significance that many here see for the way that power in the country is wielded found its most poignant expression in the sight of an ordinary family standing silently, subdued but assuaged at last, at the door of 10 Downing Street.