Accompanying women's newfound autonomy is an acute and poignant sense of the paths not taken.

"It's fostered a poignant sense of appreciating each other," he said.

There was suddenly a poignant sense of loss, of something exquisite destroyed.

Today, the work conveys a poignant sense of vanished time.

Burdened by a poignant sense of helplessness, Telemark shook his head.

But under it all was a poignant sense of transience.

I had once more that poignant sense of her as terribly alone in hostile surroundings.

Yet in a profound but poignant sense the failure triumphed.

Which experience had provided the background to the poignant sense of familiarity he had felt on both occasions?

"Stoner" is a western in a more poignant sense.