Then there was John Tiffany's Let the Right One In, where Gareth Fry's sound made your heart batter its way out of your chest.
Clyde "has an exquisite sense of humor: sly, heart-battering and a little tetchy," Karen Karbo wrote here in 1999.
Moaning-crying jags, shouting, nights spent sweating, heart-battering, fists balled in fury, frustration, denial, and a crass inability to take it all in, to believe, to stare truth in the beezer.
Animals, Emma Jane Unsworth's second novel, portrays an unconventional love triangle that from the very beginning promises to leave everyone involved heart-battered.
"Our hearts are battered, but they will mend," Kassig's mother, Paula, said, speaking stoically.
The parents of American aid worker Peter Kassig, who was beheaded by Islamic State (Isis) militants, said on Monday their "hearts are battered" but, that with time, they would heal, and even forgive his killers.
However, as the UK's largest steelworks, Port Talbot is at the heart of the storm battering the steel industry.
"It is a place of service, a place of heroes, a place with a bruised, battered heart that I know will get past this hideous moment".
Extra-low-slung pants, saddle bags, lunches at Balthazar -- these are no longer slightly embarrassing indulgences, but a personal commitment to restoring the battered heart of our city.
He stood in it, his heart naked to its freezing, battering drops".
Lin was reduced to bitterness and alcoholism and his relationship with Sonporn's father was destroyed-- violent waves still battering their respective hearts".
