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A poignant drama signaled the Mongol conquest of China (1279–1368).
Whatever one's opinion of the paintings' success, they tell a poignant story of resilience and frailty, and of an artist who was passionately unwilling to put away his brushes.
The Clinton camp welcomes the committee's move on hopes that it will produce a poignant rejection of impeachment when put to a vote on the House floor.
The most poignant, though not typical, case involved raids against the coastal hamlet of San Germán.
There's a poignant moment in his mostly very dull book when, as his career is being torn apart by the House Ethics Committee investigation into his college course, he describes visiting one of his favorite places, the American Museum of Natural History in New York.