Definition of poignantly in English:
poignantly
adverb ˈpɔɪnjəntliˈpɔɪnjəntli
In a way that evokes a keen sense of sadness or regret.
the experiences of the war are poignantly described
the girl's fate poignantly recalled his own dark childhood
Example sentencesExamples
- The truncation of each episode resounds poignantly, leaving us stranded in atonement with moral handgrips denied.
- He poignantly answers, "I don't want your help."
- His film of the gallery poignantly documents how out of place human beings can be in Mies' architecture.
- The strings sigh, and the woodwinds are poignantly beautiful.
- The theme of the two-part survey was, poignantly, the derealization induced by contemporary media overload.
- Even the painting's nominal portrait subject, the artist's son clutching a favorite doll, slips rather poignantly out of focus.
- Poignantly, the decline of Marion's own health throughout the 1950s saw the children, in turn, mind Marion.
- The dignity of male grief is poignantly explored by alternating outbursts of frustration with consoling movements of group solidarity.
- The close-ups of the girls' faces poignantly captured their emotions in ways words never could.
- A beautiful, poignantly awkward black began to emerge, foreshadowing his coming figurative work.
Definition of poignantly in US English:
poignantly
adverbˈpoinyəntlēˈpɔɪnjəntli
In a way that evokes a keen sense of sadness or regret.
the experiences of the war are poignantly described
the girl's fate poignantly recalled his own dark childhood
Example sentencesExamples
- The close-ups of the girls' faces poignantly captured their emotions in ways words never could.
- Even the painting's nominal portrait subject, the artist's son clutching a favorite doll, slips rather poignantly out of focus.
- Poignantly, the decline of Marion's own health throughout the 1950s saw the children, in turn, mind Marion.
- His film of the gallery poignantly documents how out of place human beings can be in Mies' architecture.
- The theme of the two-part survey was, poignantly, the derealization induced by contemporary media overload.
- The dignity of male grief is poignantly explored by alternating outbursts of frustration with consoling movements of group solidarity.
- The strings sigh, and the woodwinds are poignantly beautiful.
- The truncation of each episode resounds poignantly, leaving us stranded in atonement with moral handgrips denied.
- He poignantly answers, "I don't want your help."
- A beautiful, poignantly awkward black began to emerge, foreshadowing his coming figurative work.