Is poignance a word one can use with complete confidence? I mean in public, etc. It doesn't seem quite right. Almost rather poignancy. Like hurtfulness.
Indubitably, imo. B knows all about this stuff.
"Plenty of strikers can score goals," he said, gesturing to the famous old stands casting shadows around us.
"But a lot have found it difficult wearing the number 9 shirt for The Arsenal."