gut-wrenching

[guht-ren-ching]

adjective

1. involving great distress or anguish; agonizing.

   a gut-wrenching decision.

gut-wrenching

adjective

1. informal,  causing great distress or suffering

   gut-wrenching scenes

Example Sentences

Saying it feels “inevitable” that Buckley will one day win, Robert Daniels calls her work in “Hamnet” “a gut-wrenching performance … Jessie Buckley’s fearless turn echoes with the force of a primal scream.”

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Renate Reinsve, “Sentimental Value” “With a gut-wrenching performance as Agnes Shakespeare, Jessie Buckley’s fearless turn echoes with the force of a primal scream. It feels inevitable that the previous nominee will win an Oscar at some point. It’s just a matter of time.”

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Within hours, a perfect morning turned into one of the most hectic and gut-wrenching days on Mt.

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Adapted from Maggie O’Farrell’s celebrated 2020 novel, Chloé Zhao’s “Hamnet” is a tender, fictionalized account of how Shakespeare and Agnes fall in love, raise a beautiful family and then grapple with a gut-wrenching loss.

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"Snake Eater's gut-wrenching ending is what stood out most, leaving an impact on us that no other game had ever left before."

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