heavy-hearted

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From feeling heavy-hearted to having butterflies in your stomach, it seems inherent to the human condition that we feel emotions in our bodies, not just in our brains.

From Science Daily • Dec. 4, 2024

A heavy-hearted but practical conclusion based on the fact that by-elections are expensive if you properly go for it - around £100,000 a piece.

From BBC • Feb. 16, 2024

But with 1:14 left in the second quarter, one play — and one heavy-hearted Husky — stopped the storm.

From Seattle Times • Nov. 4, 2023

Rather, in its voices tinged with sorrow and re-examined history, this expertly tuned film is simply pro-introspection: a heavy-hearted look at an unnecessary death and a cultural superiority long deserving of scrutiny.

From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 13, 2023

Evil may be endured when our days pass in mourning, heavy-hearted, hard beset, if only sleep reign over nighttime, blanketing the world’s good and evil from our eyes.

From "The Odyssey" by Homer