heart-wrenching
Example Sentences
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It’s as if he recognizes that so much recent blockbuster filmmaking has been about embedding heart-wrenching pathos into the nostalgic elements we know and love.
From Salon ● Aug. 20, 2026
Some of her story, though heart-wrenching in its details, is familiar — her career as an infant-model turned child/young-adult actor was successful but at great cost — but some of it is not.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 18, 2026
Medvedev was outplayed by Novak Djokovic in the 2021 final before a heart-wrenching defeat to Rafael Nadal a year later.
From Barron's ● Jan. 25, 2026
The chairman of Pakistan's Senate, Yusuf Raza Gilani, called it "a heart-wrenching incident that turned celebrations into mourning".
From BBC ● Jan. 11, 2026
Somewhere in me there must be profound sorrow since it doesn’t take much for me to play the roles that call for heart-wrenching wailing.
From "Watch Us Rise" by Renée Watson and Ellen Hagan
