heartrending
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What Uwe Boll thinks this movie is: Heartrending tale of enduring humanity in the face of unspeakable horrors.
From The Guardian • Oct. 28, 2016
Heartrending scenes are witnessed in front of the closed doors of the various banking establishments, where large posters are to be seen, bearing the inscription: Closed temporarily, by order of the Government.
From The New York Times Current History, A Monthly Magazine The European War, March 1915 by Various
Heartrending is the woe with which he strove to escape the bride chosen for him.
From Pictures of German Life in the XVIIIth and XIXth Centuries, Vol. II. by Freytag, Gustav
Heartrending is the sorrow with which he struggles to free himself from the bride chosen for him.
From The German Classics of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries, Volume 12 by Various
Heartrending shrieks, sobs and moans pierced the gloomy darkness.
From The Johnstown Horror!!! or, Valley of Death, being A Complete and Thrilling Account of the Awful Floods and Their Appalling Ruin by Walker, James Herbert
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A Lesson Before Dying
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