Sentence examples for poignant sight from inspiring English sources
Weathered, mottled, and missing several teeth, the skull of a carpenter from the Mary Rose is a poignant sight.
They looked like beasts and trees, yet still, with their arms up and their feet turned out, they were eighteenth-century gentlemen, doing a dance — a weird and poignant sight.
Anja Rabes's costumes strike a good balance between reality and fancy, but the most poignant sight is that of the dying Chloé stretched out on the stage floor and covered with flowers, as if already in her grave.
Mr. Bush's appearance outside the Vilnius City Hall was a powerful and poignant sight for Lithuanians, and would have been an unthinkable moment for most of the past 60 years.
There was also the poignant sight of the promising 18-year-old American Madison Keys leaving the court in the gloaming in tears and unsuccessfully fighting to hold them back later as she discussed her second-round loss to Monica Puig of Puerto Rico.
The stage, initially bare apart from the poignant sight of small, brightly coloured coats hanging on pegs, gradually becomes like a giant but slightly sinister playground in which balloons become bombs, chalk marks out the school floor plan and a giant cat's cradle of string is the imprisoning gymnasium.
And that was somehow one of the most poignant sights... exquisitely dressed, and caked in blood".
So one of the more poignant sights of 2004 promises to be that of the first new ocean liner in a generation as it makes its way up the Hudson and past the mothballed Concorde, which is now part of the Intrepid complex.
One of the most poignant sights awaiting visitors is the funfair, which was due to open just a few days before disaster struck.
At times there was even something oddly poignant in the sight once again of a miserably empty Olympic stadium.
The quiet swish of their fishing lines whipping through the air makes a poignant accompaniment to the sight of the familiar, majestic mountain now literally defaced by the very forces that formed it.
