Asiye Güzel, for example, gives a harrowing account of the rape she suffered under interrogation in Turkey, while Nigerian Chris Abani has produced heartrending poems about the experience of torture.
And so she told a heartrending tale about her onetime little brother.
At one point, the news program took a break to run a heartrending vignette about a couple who had just dropped off their child at college.
Bauby's estranged partner Céline (Emmanuelle Seigner) visits him en famille and, to entertain and cheer him up, his children sing a heartrending little song about a kangaroo escaping a zoo by jumping over the wall: a song that artlessly addresses his condition.
At a heartrending institutionalization hearing, Decker prattled merrily about getting "a million billion a year from the Mikado of Japan," promised the judge "a bang-up auto" and confided his plans "to be married this afternoon," according to The Los Angeles Times.
The late, great Michael Marra, the Bard of Dundee, once wrote a heartrending and witty song called "Beefheart and Bones" about a couple divvying up their CD collection after a breakup.
To have my son called a Nazi after what happened to our family, when what he did was to raise the alarm about the poisoning of our water, is heartrending.
His up-tempo romps are as stirring as his ballads are heartrending — see him, and have something to tell the grandchildren about.
It doesn't bear thinking about, and to do Hillcoat's film justice, it does think about it, although the greater emphasis is elsewhere – on the heartrending loneliness of father and son, an unholy trinity of loneliness.
These include things that happen at school including the simple Adams, a poem about the number of boys called Adam in one class; the heartrending DyslexiaaAAAARGH which, written as by a child with dyslexia, gives a vivid picture of the horrible chaos that letters and words can create for a reader; and the finely observed Year Six Disco.
