Efraim half-smiled to the fleeting brush of a sudden poignant emotion.

Both create poignant emotion not from leaden drama but from a surreal situation laced with wit and romance.

They, however, appreciated the surprising deaths of certain characters whose sacrifice in vain rendered a poignant emotion at that point of story.

It veers wildly from poignant emotions to maudlin histrionics, often in the same song.

Toward seven o'clock she experienced a poignant emotion.

One is always interrupting some really poignant emotion to go to bed or to lunch.

He no longer moved, overcome with surprise, with desire, holding his breath with a strange, poignant emotion.

Twisk uttered a cry of poignant emotion.

He felt an unaccountable impulse to cry-not that he felt any particularly poignant emotion; it just seemed like the thing to do.

I cannot describe the profound, poignant, terrible emotion which stirred my childish heart.