heartrending

Example Sentences

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“It was the most heartrending thing I ever want to witness.”

From Washington Post

A heartrending animated escape drama, two enveloping 1960s concert films and two movies that skillfully fragment and interrogate the very medium they’re in.

From Los Angeles Times

Caught between confrontation and compassion, the familiar but still heartrending “Donkeyhead” acknowledges that the hurt others inflict on us, though never excused, may indeed derive from their own unexpressed and unresolved trauma.

From Los Angeles Times

Taken by a photographer from Jet Magazine which made history by publishing the heartrending pictures, that one has been reprinted scores of times.

From Salon

Some of the heartrending testimony moved him publicly to tears.

From Reuters