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Min poignantly captures the dilemma of second-generation Americans as they try to find a place in their universe, but she also tells of a quest for self-discovery, which is universal.

Secondhand World: Summary and book reviews of Secondhand World by Katherine Min. 2006

There was even an undertone of softness that recalled poignantly the Eris she had known in the days before the War'the old Eris who now seemed almost as remote and as lost as if he were lying with all the others out there on the plain.

Expedition to Earth Clarke, Arthur C. 1953

The cathartic moment recalls the poignantly naïve flip-book coda of

NYT > Home Page By ADAM LANGER 2011

Friends and family recalled the poignantly parallel lives and eerily similar deaths of Dee Dee Kohlmeyer and Kristie Bedard yesterday after the drivers accused of running them over in separate accidents in the past week pleaded not guilty in Superior Court.

Fore, right! 2009

But then, I’m talking about something else … I once read Christopher Hitchens say that he had hope for evolution to be an advancing force in the world; this struck me as actually kind of poignantly naive for such a truculent firebrand.

You Tell Me That It’s Evolution 2007

Lincoln Republican found meaning in the Civil War at Gettysburg by poignantly declaring that America, “under God, shall have a new birth of freedom.”

American Grace Robert D. Putnam 2010

For the moment he poignantly regretted that rumor was not true, and that his eleven millions were not in reality thirty millions.

Chapter II 2010

Of this fact I became aware very early, and felt poignantly the lack of my own kind.

CHAPTER II 2010

Lee Barton, after all mere human man, as a human man unfailingly meeting Sonny in all friendliness, suffered poignantly in secret.

THE KANAKA SURF 2010

This has been demonstrated in both men and women, in all age groups, and perhaps most poignantly in children.

The Flex Diet M.D. James Beckerman 2011