A poignant drama was unfolding at the hospital.

That a poignant drama emerges from this highfalutin framework has much to do with the quality of the film's acting.

Her response, inspired partly by what she learns in poetry classes, supplies poignant drama.

The poignant drama unfolds in 40 minutes and reaches poignant outcome in a work of value.

The poignant image of the last meal came from the film.

In the most poignant image, he slumped over his bag, hiding his head in his hands.

But it was still a poignant image.

Another poignant image for the 'family' album on a day crammed with images, sounds, emotions anyone here will never forget.

Poignant images, proud images, images that define a club and an era in football.

Brown did write a poignant letter to his wife.

Few other situations offer such a reliable shortcut to big emotions, and novelists can sometimes get lost in the excitement of khakiclad partings and poignant letters home.

He wrote poignant letters to each of them, conveying how greatly he missed them and repeatedly asking them to seriously attend to their educations.

Haunting flashbacks, poignant memories and searing emotions break through the deep fog.

With poignant memories of a summer of nightly classical adventure, one looks straight at a new year of concerts.

It was one of the most poignant memories from my career.

One poignant message read: '24 years of fighting and pain.

But for some, the bright displays of pink and red hearts have a more poignant message.

And, beneath, a box to tick and an unintentionally poignant message for those who are still interested in this sad little vignette.

His drive to get back in the game adds a poignant message to this dazzling cartoon.

There were the sights of poignant messages on banners as well as the sounds of the usual chorusing and drumming.

It seems such a poignant picture - perhaps one ofthose that have gone unpublished.

Whatever the full tale, the snaps here, shown with the precise times from each camera frame, are a poignant picture of the all-too-real pain behind what seemed a dream partnership.

She's excited about the prospect of performing again, in spite of suffering from terrible stage fright, and she paints a slightly poignant picture of her current performances.

My photos are a wonderful, poignant reminder of their sacrifice.

Each event was a poignant reminder of her loss and would reopen the wounds.

A lone chandelier serves as a poignant reminder of happier times.

Often, her charitable work threw up poignant reminders of her past.

Both accounts were gripping, and poignant reminders of the lacerating seriousness of composers of the not so distant past.

The most poignant scene was one of the last.

But after the broadcasters spent 24 hours showing and reshowing that poignant scene - mixed with tendentious reports that this was somehow 'our fault' - the prime minister cracked.

The human investment poured into these poignant scenes makes them some of the novel's most successful.

Expect some lovely, poignant scenes to round off an emotional week.

And great numbers of those in attendance were overcome by the poignant scenes.

He tells a modest, poignant story of guilt and - perhaps - redemption, and of how a casual incident long ago has affected successive generations.

The 'tiger' brings some very bad news from a battlefield, in this poignant story.

A poignant story told with spectacular special eects.

A poignant story beautifully told.

He has won numerous awards for his work, and his poignant stories depict loneliness and often have painful endings.

A nice rapport between the stars enhances the poignant tale.

So start unlocking your history, for who knows, you may have a similarly poignant tale in your past.

This place marks the end of what has been cast as a deeply poignant tale.

A poignant tale about the importance of making the right decisions.

The film's social observations arise from a poignant tale of people dealing with the logistics of bereavement.