Harnisch's poignant description of his symptoms and their hard-to-penetrate cause will surprise no one familiar with the dense, incapacitating fogs of clinical depression.

In a poignant description of their 14-year relationship, Officer Sanchez-Torres remembered Tony, as she called him, as a good friend and good partner, and as her personal hero.

Joseph Smeaton Chase has become an integral part of California literature: revered for his poignant descriptions of California landscapes.

Also, as befits a book about homes, there are poignant descriptions of the New York homeless and of African refugees in a Lisbon shantytown.

The state court said the jury might have been improperly swayed by the prosecutor's poignant description of the religious articles found near the victim's body.

They are of the most poignant description, of course.

In one poignant description, he writes:

The midsection of the book lags a little, and the last section, the poignant description of Louis's childhood, leaves us wanting more.

Margaret Moorman's poignant description of the devastation wreaked upon patients and their families by severe depressive disorders is compelling.

He offered a lengthy and unrehearsed eulogy of sorts, filled with poignant and personal descriptions.