Sentence examples for terribly poignant from inspiring English sources
It was terribly poignant watching him lurk in Jimmy's shadow like that.
In the couple's later years, made terribly poignant by descriptions of Jinyi's dementia, Yuying has much the same thought.
The childlike nature of theatre is what he loves, and suddenly this seems terribly poignant.
That aside, The Road is laudable for being beautifully acted, terribly poignant, and ultimately deeply disturbing – because it does not feel all that far-fetched.
It also felt – inevitably – like a terribly poignant sporting metaphor as Daley stood on his Olympic perch, four years in the construction, ready to plummet into unforgiving waters.
"It's terribly poignant," Waters says, "especially when you are talking about relationships, because you start off when it has all gone wrong and go back to when it was all going right".
Poignant and terribly unfortunate this event is fodder for the Republican attack machines against this candidate.
Jingle was overcome by "acting so poignant and so terribly convincing", Carroll found her "talent in jumping from comedy to tragedy... little short of astonishing" and the Times's critic praised her delicacy: "Not a note was forced.... there were tears in our eyes".
Perhaps, however, wishful Walt did anticipate something terribly prevalent in the American character: our poignant desire to sound genteel, our sincere pursuit of stylish pronunciation, our flirtation with the fancy.
The two unmissable films in the BAM series are the two that are toughest to get to see otherwise: "Minnie and Moskowitz," from 1971, starring Rowlands and Seymour Cassel, and "Love Streams," in which Cassavetes gives himself a terribly painful role beside Rowlands — they play brother and sister — and also gives himself one of the most poignant of onscreen farewells.
