How To Use Heartrending In A Sentence
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But the devastation already wrought in it is heartrending to contemplate.
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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
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But it tells the most heartrending story.
Times, Sunday Times
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The cantor's solo is the most passionate, heartrending music of the liturgical year.
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The images are heartrending, the interviews profound, and the sound design merits special mention.
Times, Sunday Times
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Over the squalor, just as typically, broods a heartrending tenderness.
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Edward, my young English cavalryman, was … She trailed off, affected as ever by her heartrending memories of him.
Dreams of a Dark Warrior
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The next morning her 'inbox was full' of heartrending pleas.
Times, Sunday Times
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Slowly, the images of rehearsal give way to the ultimate performance, a heartrending yet minimalist staging of original choreography.
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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
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Or another heartrending blow against the integration of the family unit?
Times, Sunday Times
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A great deal of fuss was made about them, not only abroad, where all the enemies of England took a particular and most vicious pleasure in magnifying the so-called cruelties which were supposed to take place, but also in the English Press, where long and heartrending accounts appeared concerning the iniquities and injustices practised by the military authorities on the unfortunate Boer families assembled in the Camps.
Cecil Rhodes Man and Empire-Maker
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Though the film makes relatively few gestures toward contextualizing the band's place in the music of the '90s the band's members scorn the term grunge as a reductive buzzword, there are a few heartrending clips of The Most Dangerous Line of Latitude on the Planet Dana Stevens is Slate's movie critic.
Slate Magazine
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It is truly heartrending, because we are so powerless over somebody else's pain.
Times, Sunday Times
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This last sequence was accompanied by the heartrending strains of Pablo Casals playing a Spanish folk song on the cello.
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A long, silvery howl echoed out over the trees, one of grief and heartrending sorrow.
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For understandable and heartrending reasons it has been brought forward.
Times, Sunday Times
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Occasionally, there is a heartrending letter from a prisoner to relatives.
Times, Sunday Times
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the heartrending words of Rabin's granddaughter
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Thousands of people have been displaced and this is extremely sorrowful and heartrending.
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The frequently heartrending work of family judges often affects their health.
Times, Sunday Times
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Heartrending were the wailings and shrieks and moanings which arose at this announcement, confirmed by the viewer and overmen.
The Mines and its Wonders
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Please don't hurt me again, otherwise i'll heartrending hurt.
