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词汇 poignantly
释义 poignantly
adverb
uk /ˈpɔɪ.njənt.li/ us /ˈpɔɪ.njənt.li/
in a way that causes or has a very sharp feeling of sadness: 凄美地
He sang poignantly of wanting to know true love.他凄美地唱出了想要体验真爱的渴望。
The war correspondent is known for poignantly chronicling the effect of war on ordinary people.
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poignant
She poignantly testified how the lack of mental health facilities has damaged and destroyed innumerable lives.
Wilkinson's prose is poignantly sweet.
He poignantly recalls his aging mother's inability to continue working in the kitchen.
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Saddening, shocking and upsetting
affecting
agonizingly
arrogance
baleful
be cold comfortidiom
disrespect
distressful
distressfully
distressing
distressingly
hubris
hurtful
hurtfully
impiously
impiousness
teary
touching
touchingly
tragically
traumatic

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poignantly
They poignantly added that its only alternative is ' the destruction of the radically infirm' (1992 : 57-8).
The sonata ended in serene contemplation, seemingly distancing itself from the recent maelstrom and poignantly attempting to recapture the innocence of the middle movements.
The description of many languages discussed in these chapters is incomplete in important respects, a fact that poignantly attests to the urgent need for fieldwork.
The word 'toenails' rather than 'fingernails' in the play's title poignantly satirizes the situation in this last scene.
While these themes were not unique to his analysis, they were more poignantly expressed due to his personal location with respect to them.
What is of particular interest, however, is the short flashback toward the end of the sonnet, which poignantly shows the contrast between the disillusioned wife and her younger, former self.
Even so, more pronounced is the duality of purpose inherent in the two disciplines - a duality that is mirrored, most poignantly, in the languages of discourse.
It is impossible to define human rights more simply or poignantly.
From Europarl Parallel Corpus - English
Most poignantly, those children asked that the word "refugee" be removed from their identity cards because it makes them a target for discrimination.
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The way in which he departed from us made us feel even more poignantly the loss that we suffered.
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What responsibility and, more poignantly, what action do we take?
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He is talking poignantly about unaccompanied children—and rightly so—but there will be no change in the arrangements applying to unaccompanied children.
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It is a matter which is keenly and poignantly felt by a great many people.
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It is remarkable that even against the sad background of the war, these events should strike us so poignantly.
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First, as has become poignantly manifest over the past few weeks, there is a division between financial operations and real investment.
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