heartsick
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To the book’s heartsick narrator, Louise Brown, the man who embodies those old-fashioned virtues is Claude Collier, the 27-year-old layabout scion of an aristocratic New Orleans clan.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 23, 2026
Years later, on a different kind of bad day — heartsick, this time — I tried to recreate it.
From Salon ● Mar. 31, 2026
As if in a cipher made up of different versions of himself, there’s an endless give-and-take between Idris the teacher and Idris the performer and Idris the writer and Idris the nerdy heartsick hip-hop stan.
From Seattle Times ● May 8, 2024
That year, she also released her own song, Reason to Stay, a warm and soulful introduction to her heartsick love ballads.
From BBC ● Jan. 3, 2024
They may be hungry, wounded, heartsick at the death of comrades, but they forget everything when they see him, and they break into cheers as if this hero had brought them nothing but pure joy.
From "Across Five Aprils" by Irene Hunt
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