-as well as the paper of the Quebec intellectual class-it has gained a particularly strong reputation for its excellent international coverage and insightful and poignant commentary.

The parent-child relationships in this book provide a poignant commentary on the dislocation between modern China and its recent past.

Kachaka favours the use of satire and comedy to make poignant social commentary.

"It's almost like a comedian who winds up making very poignant social commentary without intending to," he said.

But there is almost always an undercurrent of social commentary, which is sometimes biting, sometimes funny and always poignant.

For Hoover, the dollar may appear to be poignant commentary.

It details a "frank and often poignant commentary" on the Rowland's life.

Perhaps the most poignant commentary on the war and the plan to increase troops came in the Democratic response to the speech, given by Senator James Webb of Virginia.

But in finding the patterns in what we forget, or choose to forget, Mr. Greenberg creates a poignant commentary on a people who have misplaced their heritage.

Transtromer's poems frequently contain bleak yet poignant commentaries that read, at times, like aphorisms.