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  • Poignantly if foolishly, Ganz steadfastly believed—even after an avalanche of falsified documents, trumped-up charges and character assassination descended on him—that justice would prevail and that his small car would triumph.

    What a Long Strange Trip Patrick Cooke 2012

  • Poignantly and painstakingly, she lets the reader sit, like a 24/7 video camera, on her shoulder, as she offers her chilling account of being awakened by a phone call on Sept. 11, 2001 and her last telephone conversation with her brother Gary before he became engulfed in the flames and crumbling building in his effort to escape from his Cantor Fitzgerald office.

    Clarence B. Jones: The 10th Anniversary of 9/11: A Unique Opportunity for Presidential Leadership Clarence B. Jones 2011

  • Poignantly consider purposely ironic lyric here: "In 50 years or so, it's gonna change, you know, but it's heaven nowadays."

    At New York Parties,Visions of Grandeur Marshall Heyman 2011

  • Poignantly the poetry infuses its deathly philosophy with youthful ardour and eroticism, recoiling from the terrible null sum of real sufferings.

    Love in literature 2011

  • Poignantly and painstakingly, she lets the reader sit, like a 24/7 video camera, on her shoulder, as she offers her chilling account of being awakened by a phone call on Sept. 11, 2001 and her last telephone conversation with her brother Gary before he became engulfed in the flames and crumbling building in his effort to escape from his Cantor Fitzgerald office.

    Clarence B. Jones: The 10th Anniversary of 9/11: A Unique Opportunity for Presidential Leadership Clarence B. Jones 2011

  • Poignantly, one speaker said that just as she retains her own family history through her maiden name, people who graduated from Red Lodge will always be Redskins.

    Montana high school nixes "Redskins" name Dan Steinberg 2011

  • Poignantly and painstakingly, she lets the reader sit, like a 24/7 video camera, on her shoulder, as she offers her chilling account of being awakened by a phone call on Sept. 11, 2001 and her last telephone conversation with her brother Gary before he became engulfed in the flames and crumbling building in his effort to escape from his Cantor Fitzgerald office.

    Clarence B. Jones: The 10th Anniversary of 9/11: A Unique Opportunity for Presidential Leadership Clarence B. Jones 2011

  • Poignantly, after a distressed call is made about an injured young girl following the murders, one of the soldiers insouciantly quips, "Well, it's their fault for bringing their kids into a battle."

    Abdulrahman El-Sayed: Of Poets and Terrorists: A Terrorist By Any Other Name... 2010

  • Poignantly, after a distressed call is made about an injured young girl following the murders, one of the soldiers insouciantly quips, "Well, it's their fault for bringing their kids into a battle."

    Of Poets and Terrorists: A Terrorist By Any Other Name... 2010

  • Poignantly, with a plaintive sound, Jefferson addresses and gives voice to the human pain of parting: "We might have been a free and great people together."

    A Cold Man's Warm Words 2010

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