There is a certain poignancy to the cast list.

There is a certain poignancy to the news that Billy Bunter is 100 years old.

For Dartie himself was in capital form, and talked freely, with a certain poignancy, being no fool.

There was a certain poignancy in this.

A certain poignancy suffuses this bitter-sweet novel about passionate love giving way to commitment, grief to a sort of healing.

There was a moment's silence, a silence which in this corner of the great room seemed marked with a certain poignancy.

There is, it has to be said, a certain poignancy to the name of the team propping up the competition: The Birdies Come Easy.

There was a certain poignancy to the Kerry Ingredients Book of the Year award ceremony at the start of Listowel Writers' Week on Wednesday night.

During one of my assignments in Havana I heard an anecdote that takes on a certain poignancy in the light of Fidel Castro's declining health.

The prospect, too, of former international Noel Mannion lining out in the premier division in the twilight of his career would have a certain poignancy.

This adds a certain poignancy to the nightly chorus of forks shattering the innocence of plastic film atop the ready-meals of staff in the newsroom.