poignantly

(eg. metaphor, butterfly, rose )

poignantly /ˈpɔ ɪn jənt li/ ?

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In an all-too-familiar ritual, news reports quickly and poignantly filled out the lives that matched the names on the passenger list.
And there Lieserl's life was poignantly short.
Prose takes the wiser course of treating Carroll poignantly and letting the obvious questions go on hanging in the air.

The next day, Thitinan Pongsudhirak of Thailand's Chulalongkorn University told the Burmese exile press, "The cause of Burma's freedom, democracy and human rights was poignantly served, but whether Mr. Bush and his wife's gestures will make any...
on Aug 16, 2008 By: King Chulalongkorn Source: San Francisco Chronicle
"Budgets are important because they provide a template for the priorities of spending and revenues that provide an environment for growth," Pence said. "But more poignantly than the internal machinations of the creation of a budget, the...
on Jun 29, 2010 By: Mike Pence Source: Human Events (blog)
New York Times critic Ben Brantley wrote that Fonda "exudes an aura of beleaguered briskness that flirts poignantly with the ghost of her spiky, confrontational screen presence as a young woman."
on Mar 11, 2009 By: Ben Brantley Source: Bloomberg