Excerpts from their eloquent and sometimes poignant testimony make up about half of Ms. Moss's book.

"It's a poignant testimony to our national incapacity to develop a rational and humane health policy."

But it is likely to include poignant testimony by scarred burn victims who survived the fire.

Songs that might seem to be sentimental period pieces become poignant testimony to loss and longing.

Task force members heard "poignant and disturbing" testimony from people who had been burned out of their homes, harassed in schools, subjected to assaults.

Of all that has been written, Verhaeren's is the most poignant testimony of what war and invasion did to the mind of his time.

He concluded this talk with a poignant testimony of Jesus Christ:

The art itself is poignant testimony to the tragedy of its having been kept from the Soviet people.

However, it is from Ireland that we get perhaps the most poignant testimony to the effect of the plague:

The courtroom has been hushed during often poignant testimony.