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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

Kuhn heart-rendingly describes the letter in which Cage conveyed the news to Cunningham as “fragile and … cut up into small pieces, some of which, folded, have over time broken in two.”

From New York Times • Nov. 18, 2019

Where Minot’s girl was heart-rendingly real, O’Brien’s “Girl” feels, rather, like a brilliant performance.

From Washington Post • Nov. 4, 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

I have seldom seen anything so heart-rendingly incongruous as that plain ugly article of furniture in that dining-room all carved woodwork, family silver, and armorial bearings!

From Memoirs of an American Prima Donna by Kellogg, Clara Louise