In a poignant passage, she is comforting Luc Cornet, a young soldier from Millau who is dying of severe head wounds.

Today, this is one of Prokofiev's best-known works, and it contains some of the most inspired and poignant passages in his body of work.

Its most poignant passages describe the death of his beloved companion of 53 years, Howard Auster.

In one of the book's many poignant passages in her own words, she describes the hellhole of her early stage career.

Historians' assessments give way to poignant passages from letters and diaries.

There are also some genuinely poignant passages.

In one of his few poignant passages, Aronowitz all too briefly tells how unions helped his father, a garment worker, and his mother, an office clerk.

Stephen Vincent Benét's poem Army of Northern Virginia included a poignant passage about Hood:

The book's most poignant passages quote from a recent interview with the Marxist historian Eric Hobsbawm.