Heart-rending
adjective
Making you feel very sad or shocked.
The child told a heart-rending story about his family's experience during the war.
Often appears as...
- a heart-rending story
- heart-rending scene
adjective
Making you feel very sad or shocked.
The child told a heart-rending story about his family's experience during the war.
Often appears as...
- a heart-rending story
- heart-rending scene
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Pro Tip 1/3Deep Sadness
Use 'heart-rending' to describe events or stories that cause profound sorrow.
The news featured a heart-rending report about the earthquake victims.
Pro Tip 2/3Empathy Trigger
'Heart-rending' suggests that the situation is so sad that it's as if someone's heart is being torn apart.
Her heart-rending plea for help moved everyone who heard it.
Pro Tip 3/3Emotional Impact
Reserve 'heart-rending' for scenarios that have extreme emotional impact, not just mildly sad situations.
They witnessed a heart-rending reunion between the lost dog and its owner.
Pro Tip 1/3Deep Sadness
Use 'heart-rending' to describe events or stories that cause profound sorrow.
The news featured a heart-rending report about the earthquake victims.
Pro Tip 2/3Empathy Trigger
'Heart-rending' suggests that the situation is so sad that it's as if someone's heart is being torn apart.
Her heart-rending plea for help moved everyone who heard it.
Pro Tip 3/3Emotional Impact
Reserve 'heart-rending' for scenarios that have extreme emotional impact, not just mildly sad situations.
They witnessed a heart-rending reunion between the lost dog and its owner.
Pro Tip 1/3Deep Sadness
Use 'heart-rending' to describe events or stories that cause profound sorrow.
The news featured a heart-rending report about the earthquake victims.
Pro Tip 2/3Empathy Trigger
'Heart-rending' suggests that the situation is so sad that it's as if someone's heart is being torn apart.
Her heart-rending plea for help moved everyone who heard it.
Pro Tip 3/3Emotional Impact
Reserve 'heart-rending' for scenarios that have extreme emotional impact, not just mildly sad situations.
They witnessed a heart-rending reunion between the lost dog and its owner.
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Video examples
Praising slowness - Carl...
conceived of a generation ago and some of the most heart-rending emails that I get on my website are actually from adolescents hovering on the edge of burnout pleading with me to write to their parents to help them slow down to help them get
Video examples
Safari Live - Day 69 PIPE...
the rain is coming soon but I really really want to show everybody your brand new brand new ish little Cubs especially because we were there for that traumatic slightly traumatic heart-rending moment
Video examples
Praising slowness - Carl...
conceived of a generation ago and some of the most heart-rending emails that I get on my website are actually from adolescents hovering on the edge of burnout pleading with me to write to their parents to help them slow down to help them get
Video examples
Safari Live - Day 69 PIPE...
the rain is coming soon but I really really want to show everybody your brand new brand new ish little Cubs especially because we were there for that traumatic slightly traumatic heart-rending moment
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Quote examples
Rae Carson
American Writer
I was a teenage girl once. I was not an overweight teenage girl, but I had really bad acne when I was 11 or 12 years old. It was heart-rending, and people made fun of me. People whispered when I walked by in the hallways, and I was sure they were whispering about me. My adult perspective is maybe they weren't.
Quote examples
Jim Elliot
American Clergyman
Coming home, we stopped for a bite to eat and ran into a confused waitress. Had a heart-rending time trying to speak the Words of Life to her, and as I think of all this country now, many just as confused, and more so, I realized that the 39th Street bus is as much a mission field as Africa ever was.
Quote examples
Mother Angelica
American Educator
Every Christian who strives for holiness of life experiences dryness of soul. It is to most people a heart-rending experience. It is a paradox, for the soul becomes confused when it realizes the harder it strives the further away Jesus seems to be.
Quote examples
Rae Carson
American Writer
I was a teenage girl once. I was not an overweight teenage girl, but I had really bad acne when I was 11 or 12 years old. It was heart-rending, and people made fun of me. People whispered when I walked by in the hallways, and I was sure they were whispering about me. My adult perspective is maybe they weren't.
Quote examples
Jim Elliot
American Clergyman
Coming home, we stopped for a bite to eat and ran into a confused waitress. Had a heart-rending time trying to speak the Words of Life to her, and as I think of all this country now, many just as confused, and more so, I realized that the 39th Street bus is as much a mission field as Africa ever was.
Quote examples
Mother Angelica
American Educator
Every Christian who strives for holiness of life experiences dryness of soul. It is to most people a heart-rending experience. It is a paradox, for the soul becomes confused when it realizes the harder it strives the further away Jesus seems to be.
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