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Meanings of poignant sense in inglês

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Usage of poignant sense in inglês
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His family, hearing the door close on him, suffered a poignant sense of desolation.
The Financier: A Novel
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And with an astonishingly poignant sense of coming home, I plunged straight into the blazing light.
Julian
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She left him with relief and a poignant sense of all she had wasted of the night.
The Assistant
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I soon awoke to a most poignant sense of his baseness, and of my own crime and misery.
The Coquette, or, The History of Eliza Wharton / A Novel: Founde...
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One might imagine that in the end the poet's poignant sense of his isolation might allay his excessive conceit.
The Poet's Poet : essays on the character and mission of the poe...
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He looked honest, clean, and virile, but she turned her head and struggled with a poignant sense of loss.
The Buccaneer Farmer / Published in England under the Title "Ask...
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When he saw the image breaking up, Norton felt a poignant sense of grief at the loss of so much wonder.
Rendezvous with Rama
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The next morning we came down late and enjoyed everything with that keen poignant sense of pleasure that novelty alone can give.
Five Nights: A Novel
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Rather than either, it was an admixture of both, originating in a poignant sense of the grandeur of life and of the earth.
Sacred and Profane Love: A Novel in Three Episodes
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A faint, intoxicating perfume she used affected him strangely, increasing the poignant sense of her nearness; a lock of her hair caressed him.
The Ne'er-Do-Well
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She experienced only a faintly poignant sense of disappointment, of indeterminate pique, as she realized that she was no longer a free agent.
Phantom Wires: A Novel
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It was hard to avoid the slightly poignant sense here was a man bravely but fruitlessly chasing the form that had marked his youth.
The Guardian
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This feeling about death is the more noteworthy in her case because of her very deep, poignant sense of sin and of her own unworthiness.
The Life and Letters of Elizabeth Prentiss
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