Meanings of poignance in английском

He gave a new dimension to the Collector, a sort of poignance.

The poignance of the story is that these people are not empty.

Danger was no more than added poignance; he was Puppetman, and in control.

I think it was the poignance of it.

Now that question has even more poignance.

He knew the poignance of disturbing memories.

And now his arms ached for her again with a poignance which made all other things insignificant.

There is a particular poignance in looking back now on those happy days two years before the war.

I'm willing to accept on faith the universal poignance of the ship captain's remarks upon return: It looks like Earth.

This year, there will be a special poignance to the performance of the famous carol cycle in Kilmore, Co Wexford.

Percival smiled as he resumed his walk-smiledwith all that bitter cynicism which only youth may feel to its full poignance.

Countless other suns, like her great-aunt's, had risen and fallen as a matter of course, each with its own forgotten story, its own poignance.

For me personally there is an added poignance in the fact because I am in California not Ireland, at Stanford and not in Dublin.

"Universal street-penny poignance is what gives Tyler's fiction its emotional weight as well as its sheen."

He gave a new dimension to the Collector, a sort of poignance.

The poignance of the story is that these people are not empty.