heart-rending
adjective
causing great mental pain and sorrow
heart-rendingly
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a word derived from
heart-rending.
Example Sentences
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In her turn as the spurned ex-wife of arrogant Argonaut Giasone — heartily if not heart-rendingly sung by tenor Matthew Polenzani — soprano Sondra Radvanovsky soared to the occasion.
From Washington Post ● Oct. 13, 2022
Where Minot’s girl was heart-rendingly real, O’Brien’s “Girl” feels, rather, like a brilliant performance.
From Washington Post ● Nov. 4, 2019
Dench heart-rendingly shows Murdoch’s horror as she realises she is descending into dementia.
From The Guardian ● Apr. 18, 2019
Yes, spring is springing here in America’s Mid-Atlantic and it is, as always, stirringly, heart-rendingly beautiful.
From Fox News ● Mar. 15, 2019
This evening he actually jumped onto the dinner-table, looked at me out of his one eye, in which all the desolation of two was concentrated, and miaowed heart-rendingly in my face.
From The Morals of Marcus Ordeyne : a Novel by William John Locke
