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Across the globe, Florence is wrenching Freddie from writhing on the floor to buck him up for the imminent match.

From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 17, 2025

Jennifer Carpenter plays a new mother suffering from postpartum depression, and her introduction, which depicts her struggle to leave her baby and go to work, is wrenching.

From Slate • Dec. 26, 2019

This fatalism, which exists in contrast to Jones’s uncommon openness and aesthetic ravening, is wrenching.

From The New Yorker • Oct. 10, 2019

The ProPublica story is wrenching from its very first sentence: “No one came to court with her that day, except her public defender.”

From Washington Post • Sep. 17, 2019

It is always the same fibre which vibrates, the tenderest and most sensitive; but instead of an angel caressing it, it is a demon who is wrenching at it.

From Notre-Dame De Paris by Hapgood, Isabel Florence