Poignancy

(n.) The quality or state of being poignant; as, the poignancy of satire; the poignancy of grief.

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• It gains in poignancy, but loses reality. 沃尔特·李普曼. 政治序论.
• The sharpness must be gone--the point, the poignancy--the deep imprint must be softened away and effaced? 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 维莱特.
• Gravely spoken sentences, marked by unexpected turns and a quite fresh flavour and poignancy, fell easily from his lips. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪莉.

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