heartrending

How To Use heartrending In A Sentence

• But the devastation already wrought in it is heartrending to contemplate.
• For others the prospect of the radical change which must be wrought is too heartrending to be contemplated and the comfort of the known is preferable. Some Views on South Africa's Future
• But it tells the most heartrending story. Times, Sunday Times
• The cantor's solo is the most passionate, heartrending music of the liturgical year.
• The images are heartrending, the interviews profound, and the sound design merits special mention. Times, Sunday Times
• Over the squalor, just as typically, broods a heartrending tenderness. Times, Sunday Times
• Edward, my young English cavalryman, was … She trailed off, affected as ever by her heartrending memories of him. Dreams of a Dark Warrior
• The next morning her 'inbox was full' of heartrending pleas. Times, Sunday Times
• Slowly, the images of rehearsal give way to the ultimate performance, a heartrending yet minimalist staging of original choreography.
• Behind them were the still madder, swifter, more terrible waters, coming in sudden thuds, in furious drives, eddying and sculping and rearing in an orgy or remorseless and heartrending destruction. Waysiders