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
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
The Country Music Hall of Famer’s heavy-hearted slow songs, like the accordion-laced “Evangeline,” were as expansive as the sun-baked landscape’s views, winding like the Columbia River behind her.
From Seattle Times ● Jun. 2, 2019
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
