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  • I do have one small quarrel with the email I received: "poingnant" isn't the first descriptive term that comes to mind for Bartok's expressionist masterpiece.

    Morning Miscellany Lisa Hirsch 2009

  • I do have one small quarrel with the email I received: "poingnant" isn't the first descriptive term that comes to mind for Bartok's expressionist masterpiece.

    Archive 2009-05-01 Lisa Hirsch 2009

  • Robert Downey, Jr. could not have been more perfectly cast, and he was surprisingly poingnant with all the "heart" metaphor stuff.

    Day in the Life of an Idiot lyda222 2008

  • In one of the most poingnant observations in the letter, the Holy Father says:At times one gets the impression that our society needs to have at least one group to which no tolerance may be shown; which one can easily attack and hate.

    Archive 2009-03-01 2009

  • In conclusion, if there's some way you can feed my mother-in-law into a woodchipper, it would be that much more poingnant, and I have a jar full of change on my dresser that is all yours....

    Archive 2008-08-01 Brian Hughes 2008

  • In conclusion, if there's some way you can feed my mother-in-law into a woodchipper, it would be that much more poingnant, and I have a jar full of change on my dresser that is all yours....

    An Open Letter from The Web to J. Michael Straczynski Brian Hughes 2008

  • Here is another link with a poingnant statement by the ACLU's Ann Beeson:

    Impeachment blockading excuse: Fear ye, fear ye the terrorists! WHO are they? Read and see: 2008

  • Excellent reflections on some of the most poingnant issues we've had on Digiteen this year.

    Archive 2008-10-01 2008

  • Excellent reflections on some of the most poingnant issues we've had on Digiteen this year.

    Daily Spotlight on Education 10/28/2008 2008

  • This is especially poingnant for many teachers today.

    Archive 2006-02-01 2006

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