heart-rending
Example Sentences
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But “Hamnet” sets about reducing the immense, almost galactic “Hamlet”—a “Poem Unlimited,” as Harold Bloom called it—into a bit of personality-profile trivia, like an article in People magazine about the true, heart-rending stories motivating your favorite celebrities and their most beloved work.
That leaves IVF patients with the heart-rending decision of when to stop trying.
But the fourth episode is just as good — maybe even better — featuring a heart-rending turn from Tremarco as the mom trying to hold it together.
From Los Angeles Times
"The violence in Nepal is heart-rending. I am anguished that many young people have lost their lives," Modi wrote in a post on X on Tuesday.
From BBC
"It will not be an exaggeration to say that this heart-rending brutal crime was not just against Lakshmi, but it's a crime against humanity," Judge Choudhary said in his order.
From BBC
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
