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heartrending::adjective | Spocien Dictionary
| Type | Words |
|---|---|
| Synonyms | grievous, heartbreaking |
the heartrending words of Rabin's granddaughter.
Examples of heartrending
heartrending
Nearly five years ago, the Brattains experienced their own heartrending tragedy.
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It was heartrending to hear a 53 year-old man to talk even obliquely of death.
From the telegraph.co.uk
But much is redeemed by the heartrending authenticity of Williams'performance.
From the nzherald.co.nz
It's not that the little musical is extraordinarily touching or heartrending.
From the al.com
The U.S. Supreme Court this week will hear a similarly heartrending family conflict.
From the time.com
It's heartrending to watch the comfortable certitudes of middle age crumble into dust.
From the ocregister.com
However the most recent entitled Poor Kids was exceptionally heartrending.
From the thisisbristol.co.uk
Impelled to passion with a man who must leave her, she conveys a heartrending gallantry.
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It may be a heartrending calculus, but it is, in the end, just calculus.
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- Grievous: causing or marked by grief or anguish; "a grievous loss"; "a grievous cry"; "her sigh was heartbreaking"; "the heartrending words of Rabin's granddaughter"
- Grief is a multi-faceted response to loss, particularly to the loss of someone or something to which a bond was formed. Although conventionally focused on the emotional response to loss, it also has physical, cognitive, behavioral, social, and philosophical dimensions. ...
- That causes great grief, anguish or distress; That elicits deep sympathy
- (heartrendingly) In a heartrending manner
