Mr. Bush's appearance outside the Vilnius City Hall was a powerful and poignant sight for Lithuanians, and would have been an unthinkable moment for most of the past 60 years.

Ganden is one of the most poignant sights in the area: the monastery was devastated in the Maoist period, and most of it today is only rubble.

It was a poignant sight: a stellar Gulliver, pierced by a million tiny arrows.

It is, indeed, a poignant sight.

One of the most poignant sights was of a young couple sitting on beach chairs with an American flag planted firmly in back of them.

It was a poignant sight, like a memory of the life that had vanished from these hills.

There is the oddly poignant sight of Richard M. Nixon, another amateur pianist, as stiff at the keyboard as he was on his feet, playing "Happy Birthday" to Ellington.

The now familiar, if still poignant, sight of the Albert Memorial swathed in scaffolding and plastic, is set to remain a London eyesore until at least 1996.

The Temeraire was a poignant sight - a conquering hero being led off the stage by a jumped-up nobody.

Geese in a pen watch their brethren pass overhead, a poignant sight.