heartrending

Wow. Just wow. That is heartrending, I really don't even know what to say.

Slow-moving, impending, nuclear winter and the heartrending choices the characters make in the face of it.

It is heartrending to realize that they were given one last chance to step back from the abyss, when cracks appeared, but they pressed on regardless.

The heartrending bellows that she poured forth—minute after minute, hour after hour, for five long days—were excruciating to listen to.

Give a girl of 4 a toy truck and take away her dolls in pretty dresses, and she will cry, and the crying will be heartrending to any adults around who will quickly swap back the truck and the dolls.

"Would you rather be a brain without a body or a body without a brain?For a heartrending story about the role intelligence plays in shaping personality, read Flowers for Algernon by Daniel Keyes.

Yes well, science is very important, but we have major budget problems so it's inevitable that pure research budgets need to be cut, or4. Why are we spending all this money on [huge science project of little practical utility] when [far more urgent and heartrending problem]But these are much more difficult arguments than the one which Phil Plait appears to want to have with the imaginary dude in his head.

Drone operators work with far greater accuracy, but the irony of the technology is that its operators can see their accidental victimstwo little boys and their shattered bikes, in one especially heartrending case Martin describesin excruciating detail.

"She quotes Vera:"I wish, though, somebody would notice the tender description of the child, her pathetic dependence on monstrous HH, and her heartrending courage all along…"And Azar Nafisi:"Lolita belongs to a category of victims who have no defense and are never given a chance to articulate their own story.