It's a poignant piece.

But that day came with her poignant and perceptive piece on capital punishment ("The High Cost of Death," Nov. 19).

"It became a real poignant historical piece for us to do," Ms. Stewart said.

The resulting novel is "a poignant piece of truth-telling about the most primal feelings," Rosemary Daniell said in these pages in 1990.

Not surprisingly this yields the pokiest letters in an otherwise nimble, funny and poignant piece of writing.

What made the piece poignant was the way solid human bodies were juxtaposed with the lightness of the feathers.

Mr. Opsvik, a young Norwegian bassist and bandleader, has an unusual gift for writing small, poignant pieces of music.

Entitled seguirem somiant, ('keep on dreaming'), it is a very moving and poignant piece in memory of Ninyín.

Chinglish is a thoughtful, funny and poignant piece in which, miraculously, nothing gets lost in translation.

Critic Lloyd Goodrich praised the work as "one of the most poignant and desolating pieces of realism."