Sentence examples for poignant read from inspiring English sources
With a narrative that never feels like it is talking down to its audience, this memoir is an enlightening and poignant read.
Carlisle wrote the foreword to McKenzie's autobiography two years ago – a poignant read anyway but heightened given recent events – and said: "Although Leon's circumstances were completely different to mine, his thoughts and feelings were almost identical to when I was at my lowest".
"The Nest" is an addictive, poignant read with an enticing premise: four adult siblings fighting over the trust fund they're all counting on to bail them out of their particular disappointments and self-inflicted disasters.
But the story is a punchy and sometimes poignant read for any young person trying to figure out how he can become significant or simply noticeable to the people he/she admires.
It makes for poignant reading, and not just because she sounds so young and innocent.
George Morfogen provides a poignant reading of Nightingale, an aging and ailing artist who draws patrons' pictures at the Two Parrots bar.
Painted by graffiti artists from all around the world, in those halcyon days between the Mauerfall and reunification, the heady optimism of these pronouncements makes poignant reading today: "No More Wars, No More Walls, A United World".
The year 1959 was a good one for Berlioz: it brought not only this recording but also Thomas Beecham's final concert in the Royal Albert Hall, a compelling and poignant reading of the Requiem.
It makes for both harrowing and poignant reading.
It's poignant to read in one of this book's footnotes that her friend Judy Collins – one of many who recorded the beloved "Who Knows Where The Times Goes" – quit drinking the day before Denny's death and has been sober ever since.
It was poignant to read the Guardian obituary of one of my boyhood heroes, Bert "Sailor" Brown, the day after seeing The Damned United, a movie based on David Peace's factual novel about Brian Clough's 44 days as manager of Leeds United in 1974.
