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- adverb especially in combination In a
rending manner
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Examples
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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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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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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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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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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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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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To be fair, PoPoLoCrois isn't a heart-rendingly bad RPG.
PoPoLoCrois Post-Mortem Greg Tannahill 2006
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Kevin Corvais, who's heart-rendingly nerdy, makes it.
Archive 2006-02-01 Ann Althouse 2006
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But, although you might easily think otherwise, the propaganda continues its drunken stupor despite the cognitive dissonance, sometimes without the slightest hint of irony, but sometimes (as now) with rendingly divisive clarity.
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Writing a story with gravity does not necessarily mean having a heart-rendingly tragic story.
Archive 2003-09-01 Dean Francis Alfar 2003
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