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A number of poignant Yiddish words defy genuine translation into English:
A "personal and poignant defense of assimilation, written in the tradition of Richard Rodriguez and Henry Louis Gates, Jr.," says the BarnesandNoble.com Web site (whatever tradition that might be--apart from the one of books on ethnicity that sell a lot of copies, to which we hope Eric's book does indeed belong).
He asked a poignant question: “Does surgical research have a future?”
The piece says that Prime Minister Zhu Rongji's "quest for a place in the Communist-Chinese pantheon is informed with a poignant urgency.
The most poignant parts of her books detail the pressures Scarpetta faces as an executive who's responsible for the welfare of her subordinates but under ruthless pressure to deliver results; the impossibility of sorting through overwhelming floods of information and straining for an educated guess; the sadness of a life lived in helicopters and planes rather than in hotels; the inadequacy of colleagues who function like family but aren't.