Janeway's tales of the brave and pious deaths of thirteen Christian boys and girls were nothing if not heartrending.

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And in recent NFL history, few seasons have been as heartrending as the one experienced by the 2011 Patriots.

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Martinis, consumed by the bucketful, launch anxious bouts of adultery and heartrending quarrels.

NEWYORKER: Revolutionary Road

Much better is the heartrending, tragic-comic scene when Eckhart's Howie takes it upon himself to show the house to prospective buyers, only to fall apart when they come to the nursery.

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It is a heartrending tale of a passionate young woman from the Bensonhurst neighborhood of New York, who is driven to become a healer because of the early deaths of her mother, father and brother.

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Omirbaev tells the tale with briskness, simplicity, and restraint, getting his actors to move smoothly and to speak with understated, pointed calm and capturing their heartrending action in mock-bland images that alternate between stern assertion and stunned disbelief.

NEWYORKER: Chouga

It was a heartrending interview.

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