Perhaps the most poignant accounts in the book are those that echo the Trade Center disaster.

It's hard to hear her honest, poignant account of the Marschallin's monologue without feeling that you are almost spying on someone's private sadness.

Elderly residents of Eden offer thrilling and poignant accounts, as if they can still see the orcas stirring the waves just beyond their front doors.

He elaborated by saying, "Everything about this poignant account...is exquisite.

It is a very sad, poignant account of how they found some joy in anticipation of being reunited with their child.

He gave a poignant account of the male solo - the only introverted sequence in an otherwise extroverted work.

"A human, humorous and poignant account of growing up female in a world where, as Swan puts it, 'it was just more fun to be a guy'."

"Ghost Light" is a poignant and darkly funny account of a boy's life shaped by difficult circumstances and the consolations of art.

She gives a poignant account of how she wanted to adopt a Chinese boy who had served as her orderly, and to secure a good education for him.

She immediately identified with the author's poignant account of her own fraught passage into womanhood.