It was a poignant gesture; all a condemned man could say to the woman he loved.

Many of the crew reached for him and brushed his fingers in a sad and poignant gesture they missed him.

But upon witnessing, at the Met, the gleaming parade of his career, one begins to understand the policy as a poignant gesture that weds decorative chic to fierce inspiration.

Far from being a mere joke, Crusoe's blanking out on the word "solitude" is a poignant and complicated gesture.

If nothing else, this poignant gesture on behalf of decency provided welcome comic relief to a grateful nation during the early months of the war on terrorism.

She was on her side, as if she had grown too tired to sit, her cheek on the cold surface and one hand flung out in a curiously poignant gesture.

He attended her wedding and, in a poignant gesture of regret, had tossed a bouquet of white flowers into the bridal car.

It was, despite the curious posture, a most poignant gesture.

But at the end, this glamorous, tough woman offers her gentle man a chair in a poignant gesture of affection.

In a poignant gesture of traditional courtesy, Mr. Ashcroft was introduced at the hearing today by Senator Jean Carnahan, Democrat of Missouri, who succeeded him in the Senate.