His mind filled with an image of poignant, awful beauty.

Despite the bizarre circumstance she was moved by the poignant beauty of Ivo's music.

Dan's great rambling house of many rooms was set in beauty almost too poignant to be borne.

I find the picture has a poignant beauty, that despite all the horror of the attack by her husband, she will survive and cope - which I think is amazingly heartening.

Overhead, the bird sang its delightful song and the poignant beauty of the refrain strengthened the appreciation his eyes felt for the girl as she drew up before him.

The tones of her voice brought out the poignant and immortal beauty and pathos of that wonderful old lament.

Even while they terrorized, they did not lose that chillingly poignant beauty.

The poignant beauty of the last weeks was almost unbearable.

Tall and many-windowed were the houses, and carved on every side with flowers and patterns whose dark symmetries dazzled the eye with a beauty more poignant than light.

Their combinations of harp, guitar, cello, oboe, English horn, flute, and percussion produced an ethereal musical signature of "poignant beauty."