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But even as I trace the poems movement here, what seemed pleasing at first glance becomes less so: we again learn how failed hope is, and though we are not left here, on the safe confines of a front porch, chardonnay in hand, we are left with the impotence of desire, our vain delusions...perhaps a more pungeant "awe moment" than many of the poems of this variety?

Archive 2006-03-01 Lemon Hound 2006

We left Mui Ne and its pungeant smell of the nuoc mam fish sauce the area is famous for (you can see the huge clay vats of it outside people's houses along the road), passed vivid green rice paddies, fields of water buffalo, fishing villages with beautiful coloured wooden boats, and saw fisherman at work in little round bamboo and palm coracles.

TravelPod.com TravelStream™ — Recent Entries at TravelPod.com 2010

Bet that house now has a permanent lovely pungeant aroma ...

Latest Articles 2009

"Mr. Bloom ate his strips of sandwich, fresh clean bread ... pungeant mustard, the feety savour of green cheese.

Ellen Kanner: Bloomsday: Celebrate James Joyce With A Meatless Recipe 2010

Now, both Petraeus and McMaster could be reasonably said to have been improvising in the absence of clear command rules — there’s a pungeant background quote in Fiasco pointing out that Sanchez’s weakness is what enabled Petraeus and Odierno to fight totally different wars in 2003-4 — but I wonder: would Collins have considered this a distinction with a difference?

Who Else Would Collins Cashier? | ATTACKERMAN 2009

a pungeant, unpleasant smell which seemed to be embedded in the walls, and which made me want to grab one of those teddy bears quick, shove into my face and breathe into it!

LUKE IS BACK 2010