aching heart

Example Sentences

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As Miss Adelaide, Wallace avoids caricature, coupling robust comedy with the sense of an aching heart and bringing her roof-raising vocals to her character’s famously adenoidal “Lament.”

From New York Times • Mar. 15, 2023

But it is Janis who gives this melodrama its soaring, aching heart, and at every moment she exudes a radiance that is both bracingly down-to-earth and positively otherworldly.

From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 23, 2021

“I stand before you with an aching heart, a heart that aches for Cpl. Ballard, his wife, his daughter, his family, a heart that aches for the Delaware State Police who served with him.”

From Washington Times • Apr. 28, 2017

If that’s the case, the two adults involved have likely decided on this course of action, and your aching heart is not going to change that.

From Slate • Oct. 24, 2013

I would watch them with an aching heart, firmly convinced that they were being duped; but if I had been asked to give them another solution for their problems, I would not have known how.

From "Black Boy" by Richard Wright