poignancy , also: poignance

The poignancy of the moment was not lost on her.

Or maybe it is just the poignancy of old age.

You might think a man who cannot see would bring special poignancy to this moment.

Their poignancy is even greater, I think, when you read how they came to be.

"I think it would have taken away from the poignancy," she says.

Which is one reason the end of yesterday's meeting had poignancy.

But the poignancy of the moment lasted only a second.

But by the end it had gathered itself into real poignancy.

There was poignancy in this moment that he came to realize.

How can they understand the poignancy, and significance, of this moment for her?

She seemed to have the quality I wanted, a sort of rough poignancy.

This is not to say that the show ignores the story's poignancy.

The reaction in Brian's work was a kind of poignancy.

But Enron has a particular poignancy for the insurance industry.

But a strange, successful poignancy is almost always the rule.

The fact that he was soon going to die, thought Henry, gave his words a special poignancy.

But it is a question which has special resonance and poignancy in this case.

All this stage business, however, does nothing to undermine the poignancy.

That he looked older than most of the cast added poignancy.

It is very hard as I told the group on the phone to articulate the poignancy of this moment.

But formula or not, the words had a special poignancy coming from her lips.

This has added poignancy as it was placed there in 1964.

Most were men, many barely older than 20, but almost all understood the poignancy of the moment.

At that thought a terrible sense of poignancy swept over him.

Holding her to his own body he felt an overwhelming poignancy: she had turned into a young girl again.