heart-rending
Britishadjective
Other Word Forms
- heart-rendingly adverb
Example Sentences
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The feature mixes audio of the girl's heart-rending real final phonecalls with the Red Crescent, with a visual dramatisation using actors to represent the volunteers.
From BBC
Ms. Álvarez de Toledo told me that in 2019 she saw firsthand, at the Colombian border, the heart-rending scenes of migrants streaming over bridges with only what they could carry: “mothers with their babies, barefoot,” desperate to reach a safe place to live, work and feed their children.
The 20-year-old had posted some heart-rending videos in which he spoke about his troubled upbringing with an alcoholic father and how his Christian faith was helping him get through the grief of losing his father and grandmother.
But “Hamnet” sets about reducing the immense, almost galactic “Hamlet”—a “Poem Unlimited,” as Harold Bloom called it—into a bit of personality-profile trivia, like an article in People magazine about the true, heart-rending stories motivating your favorite celebrities and their most beloved work.
That leaves IVF patients with the heart-rending decision of when to stop trying.
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