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- adverb In a
heart-rending manner.
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Examples
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Some of the juxtapositions are utterly affecting: a Louise Bourgeois Cell assemblage, a monument to long-ago loneliness, set against Time Passes, a heart-rendingly sensitive multiple-drawing installation by Emma Talbot.
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Steve Buckhantz, improbably, heart-rendingly, declined to anoint this shot with any daggers.
Wizards celebrate last-second win Dan Steinberg 2010
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Even all smudged with soot, he was still heart-rendingly beautiful.
Much Ado About Marriage Karen Hawkins 2010
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Even all smudged with soot, he was still heart-rendingly beautiful.
Much Ado About Marriage Karen Hawkins 2010
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Even all smudged with soot, he was still heart-rendingly beautiful.
Much Ado About Marriage Karen Hawkins 2010
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For war movies, Peter Weir's Gallipoli is heart-rendingly perfect in every possible way; quite wonderful.
Smoking Guns and the Morality of Parliamentary Privilege 2009
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It is heart-rendingly exquisite in both its sentiment and moral character.
Are you watching HBO's "John Adams"? Ann Althouse 2008
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Simon does take center stage in the last panel, in a heart-rendingly sad scene that just deepends the mystery about him.
Archive 2008-01-01 Fred Perry 2008
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Simon does take center stage in the last panel, in a heart-rendingly sad scene that just deepends the mystery about him.
Comics for 9 January Fred Perry 2008
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To be fair, PoPoLoCrois isn't a heart-rendingly bad RPG.
PoPoLoCrois Post-Mortem Greg Tannahill 2006
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