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Poignance

//ˈpɔɪnjəns//

"Poignance" in a Sentence (2 examples)

The objects themselves might have come from some Stone Age grave so remote did they seem: yet they had poignance.

Too bad Locke's idea didn't catch on; the thought of measuring things in philosophical feet has an unquestionable poignance.

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