Behind the mistrustful poll numbers is a great poignancy.

Shields's readers will encounter great poignancy and great wisdom in this book, and feel the sadness of knowing that it will probably be her last.

Jenny's country-bred superstitions give great poignancy to her sweet character, so needy for some "care assistant" of its own.

Fortunately, they are offset by final grace notes, which are tender and beatific in ways that give great poignancy to the whole film.

There is a great poignancy in this.

Nor is his stay in Reading Gaol, where the row of prisoners on a treadmill suggests a most unpleasant health club, rendered with great poignancy.

THERE is great poignancy to the case of the New York dive bar.

Linden Peach highlights the secrecy which "has been such a feature of Irish cultural life", and which is portrayed in this work with great poignancy.

What has been long regarded as a good-natured and slightly hokey theme has taken on a greater poignancy since late August.

Seen against the background of apartheid, however, the title takes on a much more loaded urgency and the anxiety of the artist a far greater poignancy (Johnson).