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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
Adjective
causing great sadness and pity: a heart-rending story
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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.
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.
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.
 
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