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Meanings of more poignant in English

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Usage of more poignant in English
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And yet the present might have seemed more emphatic and more poignant.
Observations of an Orderly / Some Glimpses of Life and Work in a...
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A more poignant misery waked in both their hearts with that kiss.
Blue Aloes: Stories of South Africa
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Of all the lost talents, Lathwell is one of the more poignant.
The Guardian
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Rachel weeping for her children could hardly have exhibited more poignant sorrow.
Frank's Campaign; Or, The Farm and the Camp
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There are few more poignant tragedies than the life of Herman Melville.
The Irish Times
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Death gave her a quiet that only made her youth more poignant.
Three stations: an arkady renko novel
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As events progress, however, the picture imperceptibly softens into something much more poignant.
The Irish Times
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The crisis is inevitably more poignant at Christmas but it is nothing new.
The Irish Times
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The bareness of the squalid room made the pain of it more poignant.
Of Human Bondage
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Not seven weeks since the infinitely more poignant and terrible parting with Lance.
Far to Seek / A Romance of England and India
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The temptations of St. Anthony were becoming more poignant every hour.
Fraternity
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The poet was doomed to endure more poignant sorrows than slights.
Literary Character of Men of Genius / Drawn from Their Own Feeli...
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And it's only natural that things should seem more poignant for a time.
The Window-Gazer
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It would be hard to conceive a more poignant image of post-imperial Britishness.
The Guardian
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A pang more poignant than any known before pierced me through and through.
Fifteen Years in Hell: An Autobiography
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What could be more poignant than an elderly poet surrounded by childhood memories?
Rogues
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