Abraham Verghese

Medicine may be the lens through which I see the world, but since I think of medicine as 'life +', a place where life is exaggerated and seen at its most vital and poignant, I'll be writing about life more than I will be writing about medicine.

Ethiopian Author

Howie Mandel

We sat down and told stories that happened to us in our childhood, to our children. They were all basically based on the truth. These stories were funny and poignant to us. They just took off. These are all stories from my life.

Comedian

Karen Abbott

I think the most important thing journalism taught me is to mine for details. The details are key. You can't try to be funny or strange or poignant; you have to let the details be funny or strange or poignant for you.

American Author

Arthur Miller

He wants to live on through something-and in his case, his masterpiece is his son. all of us want that, and it gets more poignant as we get more anonymous in this world.

American Playwright

Nick Sagan

Astonishingly powerful and poignant, 'Gravity' is the rarest of rares: a space survival film informed by a genuine reverence for the awe-inspiring cosmos we inhabit.

American Novelist

James Mercer

The love you have for your kids is so overwhelmingly powerful that it alters your perspective. The dark things going on in the world become very poignant and vivid.

American Musician

Elizabeth Bibesco

Only the artists interest me whose hearts beat in unison with the poignant misery of the world. If you have not felt that, you have not lived. Pity is essential.

British Poet

Eddie Vedder

It's fun singing with other people who are really good singers. There's something kind of poignant about braiding a couple vocals.

Sam Taylor-Johnson

I only photograph myself at poignant moments in my life as a check of where I am and how large my thighs are.

English Director

Samuel Richardson

There would be no supporting life were we to feel quite as poignantly for others as we do for ourselves.

English Novelist

Use 'poignant' to describe deep sorrow that might feel overwhelming or consuming.

Sadness Intensity

'Poignant' can imply a beauty or profundity in sadness, often mixed with nostalgia.

Not Just Sad

It's strong enough to evoke emotions in others, not just a personal feeling.

Emotive Power

Use 'poignant' to indicate precise and effective communication that cuts to the heart of the matter.

Intellectual Sharpness

Poignant statements often provoke thought or action by highlighting important issues.

Catalyst for Action

'Poignant' can capture the bittersweetness of memories or times gone by.

Evokes the Past

In literature, 'poignant' often signals a deep emotional layer or underlying message.

Literary Depth

 The narrative style draws upon the perspective of children to infuse a tragic story with poignant humor. When the adults funnel decades of tensions over race, class, and family dynamics into their expectations for their children’s behavior, you can’t help but chuckle with recognition when,

How to make a sad story...

 But over the next few decades, the understanding of nostalgia changed in two important ways. Its meaning expanded from indicating homesickness to a general longing for the past. And rather than an awful disease, it began to be seen as a poignant and pleasant experience.

Why do we feel...

 or extrovert and then I'm going to ask each group to select the most personal poignant private of these stories and share them with the audience as a whole and from this collaborative group process a larger truth will emerge I'm just kidding I'm just kidding we're not

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 We greet with our hands. And we interact with the physical world with our hands. And when they're missing, it's a barrier. Arm amputation is usually caused by trauma, with things like industrial accidents, motor vehicle collisions or, very poignantly, war.

Todd Kuiken: A...

 as though it's about more than entertainment, as though it's about being a catalyst for social action. It's not uncommon to hear people say that stories make the world a better place. Increasingly, though, I worry that even the most poignant stories,

Sisonke Msimang: If a...

 I received a little bit of grace. I received a poignant tweet. It was brief. It just said, "Reminds me of an ancient mix tape." The name was a pseudonym, actually, or a pseudo-pseudonym. As soon as I saw the initials, and the profile pic,

Rives: The Museum of...

 a hyper-awareness of one's surroundings, a quick-trigger response to danger -- could save someone's life. The notion that the prenatal transmission of PTSD risk is adaptive is still speculative, but I find it rather poignant.

Annie Murphy Paul: What...

 mother the next day she's meant to roll this coil forward which puts her into a kind of tunnel giving her only a vision of straight ahead this is believed to protect her from the poignant emotions

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 the moon might have been what the earth looked like before life like we were back at the beginning I can remember feeling that way it was a poignant moment space is black why ain't black velvet

Earthrise: The Story of...

 it's very poignant because record high temperatures are being observed in the antarctic peninsula in the last few years and what we're