Sentence examples for poignant place from inspiring English sources

"The White House is a poignant place," Mr. Gates wrote in his 1996 memoir, "From the Shadows".

For Scottish people of my generation (roughly the same age as Prentice), it occupies a poignant place in space and time.

The wild winter beach of St Cyrus, a national nature reserve in Aberdeenshire, is the perfect poignant place for Valentine's Day.

It's easy to make fun of those who would conflate consumption with environmentalism, but this is the poignant place we find ourselves as a capitalist country in the 21st century.

Its well-meaning imperfections somehow leave me in the same poignant place that my second reading of the book did: moved by L'Engle's human sympathies rather than enthralled by her divine presences.

We toured the ruins for an hour without encountering any other visitors, and this poignant place – sculpted stones scattered as though a giant had smashed the temple with his club – cast a spell on me.

To say much more about the plot would be a spoiler, but Brooker takes us to surprising and ultimately poignant places.

"The cemetery on the top of the hill is one of the most beautiful and poignant places you could ever find," Mrs Galsworthy Estavillo said.

"Songs carry emotional information and some transport us back to a poignant time, place or event in our lives," he said after the aforementioned Frito Lay judgement.

After each flight, whether to the past or to a moment outside the hospital, we're sent back to Bauby, his neck askew, eye ravenously taking in the world, as he rests on a long, hauntingly beautiful terrace near the sea, as empty and poignant a place as one of Antonioni's desolate streets.

His most poignant tale took place after a sell-out show at Wembley.