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heart-rending
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heart-rend·ing or heart·rend·ing (härtrndng)
adj.
Causing anguish or deep distress; arousing deep sympathy.
heart-rending
adj
causing great mental pain and sorrow
heart-rendingly  adv
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heart-rending
adjective moving, sad, distressing, affecting, tragic, pathetic, poignant, harrowing, heartbreaking, pitiful, gut-wrenching, piteous heart-rending pictures of refugees


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A FRACTURED meditation on the life-altering power of love, Danish director Christoffer Boe's award-winning debut feature ``Reconstruction'' is as heart-rendingly immediate as it is intellectually sophisticated.
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They are old enough that the choices they might make are heart-rendingly complicated, young enough that the choices they have made are not irrevocable.
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Although the tone of the resulting stories is completely different, the outcome for the characters is heart-rendingly similar: the sense that one has no control over one's life.
Cold Snap by Beverly, Elizabeth / Commonweal
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