heartrending

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• The most heartrending threat to the seeds was the citizens of Leningrad themselves.

• In Oxyana, the performances he summons from his interview subjects are truly heartrending.

• Clearly, the voters were rewarding his heartrending performance of “ I Want to Hold Your Hand.”

• At the Eichmann trial, concentration camp survivors supplied heartrending testimony.

• As she twisted his great red ear, the agonized cries of Johnny became heartrending.

• The unfortunate sufferers presented a heartrending picture, worthy of the painter of the Deluge.

• She spent days in worshipping the small divinity of his person, and in the contemplation of his heartrending human attributes.

• This was really heartrending when the difference in fare for three persons would be at least twenty dollars.

• I saw none of those heartrending tragic scenes of parting, none of the wild grief that grows so much wilder for being indulged.