bleeding heart
Example Sentences
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To the Torres Martinez Desert Cahuilla Indians, it represents the bleeding heart of their creator, Mukat.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 19, 2024
Harry declares to Sally with a vulnerable, piercing and bleeding heart all the ways he loves and sees her for the person that she is — not just some consolation prize:
From Salon ● Oct. 4, 2023
At the start of the new century, Garrison landed the role of a lifetime: Hedwig, the German-born genderqueer rock goddess who is the beating, bleeding heart of the glam-rock musical “Hedwig and the Angry Inch.”
From Seattle Times ● Jul. 30, 2022
As “Valentine” so poignantly illustrates, the surest route out of a terrible feeling is straight through its bleeding heart.
From New York Times ● Nov. 5, 2021
Here they learn the rest of the lesson begun in those soft houses with porch swings and pots of bleeding heart: how to behave.
From "The Bluest Eye" by Toni Morrison
