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brokenhearted
adjective
Grieved and disappointed, especially with the loss of a beloved person or thing, such as the repudiation of a romantic relationship.
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She preferred the words of Isaiah 61 1: "The Lord hath sent me…to bind up the brokenhearted".Their hospital at Goma had been set up in 2000 to train young Congolese doctors.
Brokenhearted, Kuei attempted suicide.
Brokenhearted at the death of his son in 1647, Władysław died at the moment when the Cossacks, angered because his promises had failed to materialize, were beginning their greatest revolt against Polish rule.
In "Ch'io mi scordi," the piano plays faithless lover to the brokenhearted soprano.
And he doesn't look at all brokenhearted wearing nothing but a white unicorn cape with a decidedly phallic pink horn.
As it happened, the ABC anchor, Jim McKay, delivered a poised, intelligent, and, finally, brokenhearted report on the murder of the Israeli athletes ("They're all gone"), and he did it without Cosell's inevitable self-regard.
With its notes of hurt and hope, "Lefty" depicted effectively onstage, for the first time, the brokenhearted world that Odets knew so well, where, as he said, "there is only shame and regret, resignation and anxiety".
And, since Washington has always been viewed as a model of exquisite nobility in the black community, why shouldn't he claim Shakespeare's morally confused and ultimately brokenhearted anti-hero as one more jewel in his acting crown?
Nasser's deputy and eventual successor, Anwar Sadat, who knew the truth, took a nighttime walk in his Cairo neighborhood, "dazed and brokenhearted," as he wrote in his memoirs, and saw people dancing in the streets to celebrate their "victory".
The author's relative youth seems vaunted in so florid a display of pop-musical lingo as: The blend of loony upbeat Afro-Caribbean bounce and hoarse flamenco-style yowls of brokenhearted prayer — an effect as schizophrenically original as R & B — created a music that seemed to express the perverse vagaries of a soul yearning for union with God.
Whenever she feels bereft, she sings brokenhearted songs along with the radio.
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