1.   For them it was a particularly poignant one.

2.   There was a particularly poignant one from the United States.

3.   But it was a poignant one.

4.   But to workers at the hospital where her life hangs in the balance, she is a more immediate enigma, and a more poignant one.

5.   That Christmas was a poignant one for the agents.

6.   The case before the court now is a poignant one.

7.   The question of local determination is a poignant one for Okinawa, a sun-dappled chain of islands that has long been subject to rule by others.