Sentence examples for a heartrending sight from inspiring English sources

I highly doubt that anyone at the time suspected that Predator would predict the future more accurately than 1987's bi-racial cop drama Lethal Weapon, but who could have guessed that a sobbing Mel Gibson shoving a pistol into his mouth would one day be a welcome, rather than a heartrending, sight?

Afterward, she described the mass exodus in her diary: "It was a heartrending scene.

The WaPo has a heartrending story on the suffering being imposed on ordinary Greeks.

Nevertheless, this is a thoughtful, entertaining novel built around a heartrending love story.

The people's expressions are striking, as their bodies melt and reform, a heartrending mixture of alarm and resignation.

Days later, The Observer's correspondent, the Anglo-Hungarian Lajos Lederer, filed a heartrending eyewitness account of Budapest's last hours.

"Imitation of Life" is one of the great last films, a supreme cinematic farewell that concludes with a heartrending scene of leave-taking.

A commentator in The Independent described Harding's picture of dislocation by war and communism as "a heartrending predicament expertly realised".

Domingo pulls off some amazing feats of interpretation in the third act: one line after another is given a heartrending spin.

Matthew Passion". In Bach's hands, this central Christian myth emerges as a heartrending tragedy, powered by twin engines of dogma and emotion.

Fellini is doing the reverse: he creeps up behind the vulgar trombone honk of ordinary life and plays a heartrending tune on the violin.