Sentence examples for Heartrending from inspiring English sources

On the other hand, heartrending tales of Jewish survivors of Nazi Europe being turned back from their "promised land" also tugged at Western consciences.

In my job at Channel Mum I speak with dozens of new mums every day and some of their tales are heartrending.

In the Inferno (X) Dante composed a monument to his great friend, and it is as heartrending a tribute as his memorial to Latini.

I already had many fears about what awaited me in parish ministry, but Dr. Tiller's murder was a heartrending reminder that not even churches are a sanctuary from the violence of a weary world.

They are figures who have left madness behind them, and this is why they are marked by such a consistently heartrending, inhuman superficiality.

Some of the condemned appealed to him in heartrending terms.

As Adam struggles to honor Luke's wish to remain closeted to his conservative Southern family, we see the forces of love and dignity at odds, and the results are heartrending.

His up-tempo romps are as stirring as his ballads are heartrending — see him, and have something to tell the grandchildren about.

Instead, they began to hedge their bets on the war, focussing on "the mood of America" and on heartrending stories of service and sacrifice.

Still, his account of his family is heartrending, as when he analyzes his mother's suicide note, which starts out, "I don't know why I chose today to begin".

Heartrending disappointment".