While Edwards faced a wide field, Roemer's candidacy had a poignant aspect.

By far the most dramatic and poignant aspects of the new era of remembrance are the exhumations of the victims of the Franco era.

One of the most poignant aspects of the story, Mr. Katims says, is that the young aliens do not know where they came from, or why they were abandoned.

This book's genuinely poignant aspect is Ruth Paine's what-if wonderings, as she considers whether any changes in her behavior might have altered history.

Despite arguments about how to define neorealist cinema, certainly one of Ossessione's most poignant aspects is its stark realism.

Tongue-in-cheek Kunhi balances serious, comic and poignant aspects.

His observations about their diminished capacities are the diaries' most poignant aspect, even if he is breathlessly quick to pounce on ways that women lose their allure.

Perhaps the most poignant and admirable aspect of Ullmann's life is the hard-won battle she has fought to no longer play the role of the woman behind the man but, rather, the woman behind herself.

One of the more poignant aspects of all this is the fate of the loyal Kinenos, the ranch workers.

Perhaps the most poignant aspect of the site is a Most Wanted list of several hundred species for which no such material has been found.