tear-jerker
Britishnoun
Example Sentences
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They could even create different endings for different kinds of fan: a happy ending for the romantics and a tear-jerker for those who appreciate a good tragedy.
The musical is the fourth incarnation of Joyce's tear-jerker - it began life as a radio play before she developed it into a novel, and it was made into a film starring Jim Broadbent in 2023.
From BBC
That all changed in September after she used an artificial intelligence song generator to transform one of her poems into a tear-jerker called “How Was I Supposed to Know?”
It’s the kind of deliciously painful tear-jerker that’s hard to write and even harder to believably pull off, but it’s also not surprising that this particular pairing will break your heart so beautifully.
From Salon
For the upcoming tour, he's playing it back-to-back with a new tear-jerker, Northern Lights, that dives even deeper into heartbreak.
From BBC
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