He felt her smile tug at him with wholly unexpected poignancy.

An unexpected poignancy undercuts the self-conscious casualness of the piece.

But her incense bearer, in a pink-and-gold sari, had an unexpected poignancy.

Because the Coens are smart enough to know that such a place has ever existed only in fable and song, their vision takes on an unexpected poignancy.

The film is a most delicate joy, edged by a darkness that gives unexpected poignancy to the romantic misunderstandings.

Taken in that context, the chosen music gains an unexpected poignancy.

Mallory felt an unexpected poignancy as she lifted her glass and clinked it against Dexter's over the top of the candle flame.

But as their bodies locked together, straining, there was also an unexpected poignancy, a haunting sweetness that made Montana keep her tightly in his embrace afterward.

And there is both a sense of battle weariness and an enduring, quixotic valor to the performance that infuse it with unexpected poignancy.

And the film's ultimate use of Mary does give this faulty casting an unexpected poignancy.