Meanings of almost poignant in English

That Starr loves simplistic, '50s-era Dragnet so much is almost poignant.

There was a suggestiveness about it which was almost poignant.

But those wry, almost poignant opening scenes make up for the occasional generic moments to come.

Anna Flodin was a pale, quiet girl with smooth black hair and a serious, almost poignant expression.

She looked at Kate with an almost poignant anxiety, her face twitching a little with her excitement.

Under her great gray eyes were faint violet shadows which gave her a look of almost poignant wistfulness.

The loneliness that perpetually dogged her footsteps was almost poignant there, and sometimes she came away with panic at her heart.

In spite of the thick driving-robe, the cold bit through Charnock's worn-out clothes, but he was conscious of a strange and almost poignant satisfaction.

The table, set with the dishes and the plated silver McRae had imported from the States, stirred in him a pleasure that was almost poignant.

It's not often that a game is confident enough to deprive players of the role of the hero, and here the futility becomes almost poignant.