The word 'heartsick' is correct and usable in written English.
It is an adjective which means very sad and disappointed in a deep way. For example, you could say: Losing her best friend was so hard that she felt heartsick.
One of her sons became heartsick over being parted from his "dearest" (a name for mother that Frances coined in Fauntleroy) and ultimately died of consumption in her arms.
A magnificent constant in this production, however, remains Ferruccio Furlanetto as Philip II of Spain: merciless as despot, heartsick as he accepts his wife has never loved him, and chilling as he plots his own son's death with the poisonous Grand Inquisitor (Eric Halfvarson again).
Though James is the more nuanced and ambitious writer, it's not hard to imagine one of Ellroy's sadistic, dysfunctional, heartsick G-men making himself darkly useful in James's ultra-corrupt Kingston, or aiding its Jamaican gangster émigrés when they move their drug business in the States.
Well, I'm [expletive] heartsick over it".
"I am heartsick and so very sorry that my book has caused any offence to the Jewish people, for whom I have the greatest love and respect".
There's a great passage in "Of a Fire on the Moon" in which Norman Mailer, in his grandly narcissistic third-person narrative voice, describes how he overcame his initial heartsick uncertainty as to whether he had any statement to offer the world on the death of Ernest Hemingway.
And "A Change Is Gonna Do Me Good" finds James, more than forty years after "At Last," still having her way with a heartsick ballad.
Also thrown into the mix are Juliette's heartsick employer (Inder Manocha) and, horror of horrors, a blind and lachrymose poet (Richard E. Grant).
In an e-mail this past weekend, Olson told me that he was "heartsick about being on the sidelines as this so very important issue moves to a climax in the Supreme Court".
Heartsick in old age, he asks the rabbis to write a new contract, committing him to philanthropy.
Mom and Dad would be heartsick if they could hear the swearing he sometimes did in his head, such as crap-cunt shit-turd dick-in-the-ear butt-creamery.
