Sentence examples for poignant found from inspiring English sources

And many of the most poignant found their source in Ms. VanDerBeek's childhood home in Baltimore, now up for sale.

He has a show scheduled Saturday in Red Bank, N.J. "Performing is my medicine," he said, adding that his most poignant find in the wreckage was a photograph of him performing with the singer Johnny Maestro, who died in 2010.

Among the poignant pieces found in the local rubbish pit was the arm of a doll.

A poignant note found in her coat pocket at her autopsy said only: "Bye from me".

This poignant dedication, found in a lovely hardback edition of The World of Picasso, acknowledges a less-than-perfect past while looking towards a hopefully-happier future: "The one thing one can always do for the person one has loved – is love them again.

The passage in which he meets his biological father, a bohemian Sydney actor, for the first time in his 20s, is genuinely poignant: "I found myself getting sort of angry … There on shelf after shelf were the exact same books as those I had bought and read myself … If I had only known him, I might just have picked his books down from the shelf … I was forced to make myself up as I went along".

Posters of lost people fill his mind, from the tragic to the merely poignant: "Help find me!

Photograph: Spencer Platt/Getty Images This poignant set of found photographs was published in this weekend's Observer.

One poignant example I found was a petition by Arkansas-based environmental groups to ban the collection of wild turtles because some species faced possible extinction due largely to Chinese demand for turtle meat.

As poignant as he found the piece at the time, he did not quite imagine Mr. Fischer becoming such an art star so fast, nor did he foresee the skull becoming the smiley face of the '00s.

The stories are wonderfully funny, but the ridiculous is bathed in a poignant, dreamlike mood found nowhere else in fiction, and profound ideas and strong values sleep beneath everyday details of bonnets and cakes.