One of the most heart rending moments of these heart rending days was CNN's interview with the mother of Alyssa Alhadeff, a student killed by Cruz, that left a CNN anchor in tears.
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The film is a heart-rending, impeccably executed soap opera episode.
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But then, suddenly we could hear wailing and heart-rending screams.
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Fire at temple in Kollam is heart-rending & shocking beyond words.
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Rudolph's performance in the second episode of "Forever" is heart-rending.
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Which was heart-rending to see on such a little body.
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"In the Ruins" is a heart-rending cry, an important chronicle.
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Weeping families flocked to public hearings clutching photographs and heart-rending petitions.
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It's heart-rending, to be sure, but also tragically predictable in format.
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If you find statistics abstract, you can instead read the heart-rending stories.
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Claire suffers a miscarriage, and Ms. Balfe's portrayal of grief is heart-rending.
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What's so heart-rending and irrational about the plans is they're not necessary.
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Slow, lyrical, and heart-rending, Mother is an intertwined tale of two mothers.
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Some patients will make heart-rending pleas that they cannot live without their opioids.
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The heart-rending video touched on the social topic of "leftover women" in China.
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But few stories were as confusing, and at moments heart-rending, as Mr. Amiri's.
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It was one of the most heart-rending statements ever given from that podium.
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Yet out of this difficult, heart-rending situation, a new kind of literature has emerged.
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Indeed, it was the most touching and heart-rending experience of my whole professional career.
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Completing a marathon can be triumphant — but also heart-rending, in a surprisingly literal sense.
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Those heart-rending scenes in Cleveland would be inconceivable anywhere else in the advanced world.
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This tension enlivens the work as well as gives the collages a heart-rending edge.
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Fit with a stirring soundtrack, heart-rending narratives and wait, was that a staged car crash?
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Ms. Pelosi read heart-rending testimonies from Dreamers who had written their representatives about their lives.
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Now a heart-rending new memoir enters this conversation and raises urgent questions of its own.
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Certainly the final segment, which includes the plight of refugees, is both heart-rending and frustrating.
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While there was no victorious and Free Willy-esque breach, the video is pretty heart-rending stuff.
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Expertly translated by Ann Goldstein, "A Girl Returned" is as heart-warming as it is heart-rending.
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At the end of that contest, the look on Cleveland Coach Hue Jackson's face was heart-rending.
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It's heart-rending to watch him lose faith in himself as he travels closer to their destination.
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This made Close's performance even more poignant and heart-rending than it was in the original production.
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Throughout the series, there's wide-eyed love and heart-rending jealousy, crushes and infatuations, and everything in between.
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"Certainly the final segment, which includes the plight of refugees, is both heart-rending and frustrating," he added.
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Keys spoke specifically about the Kanien'kehá:ka people, whom she said have fought "a heart-rending struggle" for their rights.
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And it was, for me, forever, the most heart-rending choice I pray I will ever have to make.
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She smiled a lot; her attempts to make everyone see how agreeable and reasonable she is were heart-rending.
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That's the reality for so many of the families whose plights we see and heart-rending cries we hear.
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Mickelson is a five-time major champion who has finished second at the U.S. Open six heart-rending times.
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"The fire at the temple in Kollam is heart-rending and shocking beyond words," Modi said in a Twitter post.
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"The fire at the temple in Kollam is heart-rending and shocking beyond words," he said in a Twitter post.
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The heart-rending pagan inability to anticipate the complete erasure of their beliefs gave Christianity one clear path to victory.
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She appears throughout "Hors la Loi" to contextualize the story, and has the last word in a heart-rending monologue.
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I'm told that the news coverage of Puerto Rico shows devastation and astonishing, heart-rending images from around the island.
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Also this week, Harper's Magazine published a heart-rending, confused and maddening essay by former public radio host John Hockenberry.
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"Blue Moon" is one of those heart-rending songs that was recorded by everyone from Mel Tormé to Ella Fitzgerald.
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There hasn't been a whole lot of time since the tragedy, but he turned it into really good, heart-rending stuff.
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He uses the complex electroacoustic technique known as spectral composition, but also has enough restraint to craft a heart-rending solo.
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Its overall tone was sympathetic; it included a heart-rending video of Syrian families screaming for help as their boats sank.
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McKeon relates an unpredictable series of events in heart-rending prose, expressing the full force of young love's potential for disaster.
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His heart-rending turn in "Manchester by the Sea," along with his many triumphs all season long, pointed to Oscar gold.
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"My precious Angel, I never had a chance to hold your tiny hand," begins the heart-rending letter to her unborn baby.
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The heart-rending bellows of the poor tormented beast seemed to echo around the cliffs and reverberate in our very rib cages.
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Opinion Columnist Over the weekend The Washington Post published a heart-rending description of a pop-up medical clinic in Cleveland, Tenn.
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But Lloyd Parry's most eloquent and passionate witnesses are the mothers who speak with heart-rending clarity of the children they lost.
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Not long ago, heart-rending pictures of immigrant children getting torn from their parents at the border spurred a bipartisan chorus of criticism.
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There are a few hundred pages of heart-rending narratives about the truly heroic efforts from security on the ground to save Stevens.
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But there is nothing complicated about the heart-rending images of children, some of them babies and toddlers, being seized from their parents.
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I suspect your husband isn't involved in the educational (Child of Light) or heart-rending (That Dragon, Cancer) side of the video business.
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After all, this is the show that spent an entire heart-rending musical montage on a Crock-Pot setting a house on fire.
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The author's stories give heart-rending meaning to the lives and deaths of these men and women, even if policymakers generally have not.
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In "Beautiful Boy," Mr. Chalamet plays a meth addict whose relationship with his dad (Steve Carell) might better be described as heart-rending.
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One has to wonder at what point Jared will lose faith in Richard, and what kind of heart-rending bro-keup would ensue.
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She previously organized the many heart-rending repatriation ceremonies at Brize Norton, where fallen troops are returned home to UK soil when killed abroad.
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In the gray areas where a mother's life is truly at risk, then -- as the Alabama law allows -- heart-rending choices can be made.
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Lately, to convey the urgency of climate change at a personal level, scientists have begun translating its dry data points into heart-rending melodies.
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That part is heart-rending as, when you love this as much as I do, you put your heart and soul into the work.
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The pick this week will resurface Anna Netrebko's turn as Tatiana in this heart-rending Tchaikovsky opera, opposite Peter Mattei in the title role.
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As humorous and witty as, "Hannibal" can be, it predominantly functions as a heart-rending examination of psychology, love, ethics, and humanity at large.
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The astronomical estimates of animal losses and the heart-rending images of singed koalas during this disastrous fire season have spread the concern worldwide.
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Sara B. Franklin wrote a heart-rending essay for us about how caring for her parents during terminal illnesses helped prepare her for mothering.
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The film's most heart-rending interviews are with parents of people who turned to terrorism; they're still struggling to figure out what went wrong.
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Mothers of African-American sons killed by law enforcement and gun violence took the stage in a heart-rending call for social and firearms reform.
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Move over, Sad Ben Affleck; we're bracing ourselves for something much more heart-rending, the sight of Jason Momoa without that twinkle in his eye.
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Poem The title poem of Dorianne Laux's forthcoming collection is a searing eulogy, a heart-rending kaddish whose compassion is tendered with an unblinking eye.
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Professionally expressive faces projected across field-of-vision-encompassing screens, uttering heart-rending phonemes rid of all meaningful context, accompanied by huge swells of music?
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Since September, Bana has been offering a heart-rending insight into daily life in the besieged Syrian city through an account run with her mother, Fatemah.
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When we first see Nick, who is played with heart-rending verisimilitude by the film's co-director, Benny Safdie, he is being interviewed by a therapist.
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On March 11th people bereaved by paramilitary groups told heart-rending stories when a European organisation commemorating "victims of terrorism" brought its annual meeting to Belfast.
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Sian Heder's film "is a deft mix of emotions: heart-rending, occasionally funny, even harrowing as the police get involved," Neil Genzlinger wrote in The Times.
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On paper, the commission's findings are heart-rending: The average age of abuse victims was just over 10 for boys and just under 10 for girls.
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The ensemble's music director, Franz Welser-Möst, has a particularly nimble way with Strauss, so this comic yet heart-rending opera should be a perfect fit.
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Particularly heart-rending are the stories of Jessica Kensky and Patrick Downes, who were newlyweds at the time of the bombing, watching the runners come in.
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A generous reading would suggest the horror of the war in Syria was brought home to Americans through heart-rending pictures that captured our nation's attention.
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"Paradoxes abound in life," Yip-Williams writes in a heart-rending letter to her daughters; she asks us to confront these paradoxes with her head-on.
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Winter's funeral is a heart-rending thing — the first moment when you feel that human life might mean something to all these twisted characters, even gruff Atticus.
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Listen up: Scientists, desperate to convey the urgency of climate change at a personal level, have begun translating its dry data points into heart-rending melodies. 3.
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Though he still publishes emotional decrees on Tumblr from time to time — his note on the death of Prince was heart-rending — he largely avoids social media.
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But countless newspapers across the country in the past year have run heart-rending stories about the hopelessness in non-working and low-wage communities across America.
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Rolling on for nearly seven minutes "The Traveller's Night Song" is about as lovelorn and heart-rending a track as you'll hear in a club all year.
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But the film, a Netflix release receiving a theatrical run, is a deft mix of emotions: heart-rending, occasionally funny, even harrowing as the police get involved.
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But what if you showed this cat-recognizer a Scottish Fold, a heart-rending breed with a prized genetic defect that leads to droopy doubled-over ears?
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The album ends in a heart-rending nine-minute apologia written from the character to his daughter, offering explanations for his bad choices and asking for forgiveness.
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Mr. Trump's new restrictions were particularly heart-rending for the thousands of Iraqis who had worked closely with American troops and made many friends among the Americans.
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Sian Hader's film "is a deft mix of emotions: heart-rending, occasionally funny, even harrowing as the police get involved," Neil Genzlinger wrote in The New York Times.
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But its most dazzling moment, of course, was Seal's majestic "Kiss From A Rose", one of the most successful and heart-rending British soul tracks of all time.
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Meanwhile, during a series of town halls this fall, we heard heart-rending stories from seniors who can't afford prescriptions for conditions including diabetes, heart disease, and cancer.
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Adrian's parents, whose frequent reunions tend to be grudging, ill-tempered and alcohol-fuelled in the books, get a heart-rending duet about how much they miss each other.
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It's an accessible, wonderfully twisty, big-picture, heart-rending narrative about six people who eventually meet up and form the strongest of bonds, only to scatter to the winds.
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No health topic has made more news in this country over the last two decades than the opioid crisis, with heart-rending journalism and a handful of comprehensive books.
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Van Stockum fondly remembered John Shea, author of the heart-rending letter to his son, as a fine naval officer who hid his intellectual capabilities from his fellow sailors.
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When Ulysses first puts on lip gloss in a room full of people who accept him, the smile that plays on his face is both ebullient and heart-rending.
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It was a heart-rending experience to see these young men and women, many of them missing eyes, arms, legs or even multiple limbs, being wheeled through the building.
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The transcript ends with a heart-rending exchange, shouted over the roaring storm between the captain and his helmsman, who was trapped as the boat rolled on its side.
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The 20-year-old Chicago rapper CupcakKe is one of the most original voices in hip-hop today, with lyrics that alternate between extreme vulgarity and heart-rending honesty.
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After the train is in motion and they're unable to go after her, Philip and Elizabeth see Paige standing on the platform, and their stunned reactions are heart-rending.
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The impasse was broken a day after a heart-rending photograph went viral showing a drowned father and daughter lying face down on the banks of the Rio Grande.
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Here are snippets of what some speakers had to say: Actress America Ferrera It's been a heart-rending time to be both a woman and an immigrant in this country.
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The scenes at the bar have the warm feel of a favorite sitcom, while the more intimate, interpersonal scenes can shift ably from heart-rending drama to aching, unrequited romance.
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Instead, the court demanded that doctors pull the plug on the baby's life support system despite heart-rending pleas from the child's parents to let them try to save him.
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I felt guilty for how little the famously heart-rending music moved me, and I left wondering whether a large orchestra was the best way to convey the work's power.
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I thought of this history when reading the heart-rending story of Li Wenliang, the doctor in Wuhan who in late December tried to sound a warning about the coronavirus.
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The filmmakers, David Osit and Malika Zouhali-Worrall, eavesdrop on the parents' heart-rending discussions about things like whether to use Joel's actual laugh as a sound effect in the game.
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Before she knew Flint's water was contaminated, Hanna-Attisha encouraged mothers who came to her clinic to mix baby formula with tap water; the guilt she later feels is heart-rending.
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Mr. Gant's book encourages the reader to revisit the gems of his output, from the oft-performed "Ave verum corpus" to the mournful "Infelix ego," with its heart-rending final minute.
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Last, although many fans are still mad about how the series finale, "Made in America," ends, the episode is as tense and heart-rending an hour as Chase has ever produced.
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He's quietly put out some of the most heart-rending folk inspired tunes this half-decade and even without overcoming his health struggle, this would be his most resilient collection yet.
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Anyone who came out of "Arrival" with a hunger for more expansive, heart-rending science-fiction will tuck into "Your Name" as greedily as Mitsuha/Taki tucks into her/his delicious desserts.
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In one heart-rending scene, Vázquez Irizarry visits the archives of the New York City Fire Department and finds that more than half of the Bronx fires are unmentioned in their records.
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Mr. Trump's own Fox hit appeared to force the network to go to commercials during an emotional and heart-rending speech by Patricia Smith, the mother of the Benghazi victim Sean Smith.
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Let's hope that Ms. Yared's heart-rending essay will resonate not only with her friends who are eligible to vote but also with 18- and 19-year-olds everywhere in our country.
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This is the funny, invigorating, heart-rending story of Isabelle, the kind of mother who will walk 300 miles by herself if that's the only way she'll get to see her child.
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Amid all these gleaming fragments are meditations on the nature of historical time, the mysteries of human motivation, the endless riddle of causation and the heart-rending loss of once-possible alternatives.
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"I don't need any lectures from anyone on compassion," Kahlon told reporters in Tel Aviv after Netanyahu referred on Facebook to "heart-rending" appeals from employees of the current broadcasting authority facing redundancy.
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Related: [Exclusive] Visionary Artist Uses VR Paint to Make Amazing Mushroom Forests An Artist Remembers His Unborn Child in a Heart-Rending CGI Video Arbréole Turns A Forest Into An Interactive Dance Party
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"The Long Shadow of Small Ghosts," the first book by Laura Tillman, who worked for a time as a reporter for The Brownsville Herald, could do so much with this heart-rending setup.
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" The rescuer, a father of three and by profession a music therapist, added: "I began to sing to comfort myself and to give some kind of expression to this incomprehensible, heart-rending moment.
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They knew that Dr. Blasey, a research psychologist, had captured the nation's attention with a credible and heart-rending story that, if true, should disqualify anyone from service on the nation's highest court.
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Wherever Raúl Esparza goes, it seems, people expect him to sing "Being Alive," the heart-rending Stephen Sondheim ballad from "Company," for which he earned a lead actor Tony Award nomination in 2007.
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A heart-rending photo of a keening monkey, mourning what appears to be her dead baby, was taken in India, in 2017 — and the baby monkey has actually tripped and fallen, not died.
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Mr. Wade, a 20-time winner of Moth storytelling competitions, is one of the most popular spinners of yarns in New York City, with a knack for heart-rending but cautiously optimistic tales.
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Opening a window onto a cultural custom many Westerners find baffling, the Indian-American filmmakers Sarita Khurana and Smriti Mundhra stirringly chronicle this often heart-rending, occasionally humorous rite of passage without judgment.
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And yet the more intense heat radiates from her new single, "Liability," a heart-rending piano-only slow burner about being a partner who others love to play with but not hold onto.
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She was conspicuously silent in the days leading up to that point, as heart-rending stories and images of children being separated from their families along the southern border were in the news.
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Or, under the guidance of aides like national security advisor H.R. McMaster, will the president rise to the occasion and offer solidarity and assurance to an American ally suffering from a heart-rending tragedy?
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The death penalty trial of Dylann Roof, who is accused of massacring nine people at a prominent black church in Charleston, S.C., opened last week with heart-rending testimony from one of the survivors.
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His 2016 film "I, Daniel Blake" delivered a devastating critique of the privatized public sector, with Loach's portrait of a communal safety net disintegrating before the eyes of the film's heart-rending title character.
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" In the book, North Korea is a country where a woman is programmed to show grief over Kim Il-sung's death with flowers, streaming tears and a heart-rending cry of "Great Leader, Father!
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The characters' brave concord is both inspiring and heart-rending, and Cleave's prose is imbued with a Dickensian flair, deploying brilliant metaphors ("People spoke in whispers, as if the war were listening") and crackling dialogue.
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Somber Trump There was one new wrinkle in the depressingly well-worn ritual of Washington reacting to the latest massacre -- a new White House now understands the heart-rending duty of dealing with national trauma.
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That was the advice I got from several confidants after I began weighing whether to tell the story of Jason Greenstein's battle against cancer, a heart-rending example of the early promise of immunotherapy treatment.
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The most heart-rending moments come in the third episode, which lingers on the decline and death of Ol' Dirty Bastard, the jester whose tragic unraveling became a wound that the group could not bear.
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"The loss of a comrade and ally, with whom I share a friendship that dates back to 59 years ago, is difficult and heart-rending," said a statement posted on Ayatollah Khamenei's website on Sunday.
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And there have been no shortage of heart-rending accounts from Anthem customers who claim the policy has left them with thousands of dollars of medical debt after being treated for serious, even life-threatening conditions.
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"The safe-ish money is on Frenchman Robin Campillo's heart-rending AIDS activist drama 'BPM (Beats Per Minute)', which has the liberal politics and warm emotional pull that could unite an otherwise split jury," wrote Variety.
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Far from being the heart-rending coda to Lovely Creatures' and the Bad Seeds' narrative, Skeleton Tree, along with Push the Sky Away, instead represents another reincarnation of the band and a shift in Cave's writing.
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In a heart-rending performance, Soria Zeroual plays the middle-aged divorcée of the title, an Algerian mother of two who works 16 hours a day as a housecleaner in Lyon to pay for their education.
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Credit must go to the extraordinary cast, especially the amateurs who blended in seamlessly: Suzy Cocco is heart-rending as Ihsane's mother, while Fabian Leenders, a warehouse agent, delivers with subtlety as one of the killers.
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The tone might be described as peppy-neurotic, at least until it darkens into heart-rending in the second act, when Whizzer comes down with a mysterious illness — not yet named — that we know is AIDS.
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Trayvon Martin and 12-year-old Tamir Rice are something else altogether, heart-rending combinations of both Tills, père and fils, doomed man-children in the fretful, trigger-happy imagination of American vigilantes and law enforcement.
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Losing two Champions League finals to one club would be heart-rending enough at the best of times, but when that club is an intra-city nemesis the pain of defeat must be even harder to bear.
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"As horrific as those attacks were, and as heart-rending as the pictures and the atrocity and the children dying are, I don't believe that there was a national security interest of the United States," he argued.
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Familia, 48, a daughter of Dominican immigrants named for a flower known as the forget-me-not, was remembered during a funeral service punctuated by heart-rending speeches by her children, Mayor Bill de Blasio and others.
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Three-hankie special: George Adamson (Bill Travers), a game warden in Kenya, and his wife, Joy (Virginia McKenna), face a heart-rending decision after Elsa, the orphaned lion cub they have raised, becomes too big to keep.
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This grim triage strategy, which would factor in a patient's age, health and likelihood of survival, is an effort to standardize the state's approach and take some heart-rending decisions out of the hands of individual doctors.
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It would be easy to laugh at this spectacle, with its beloved leaders and mad smilers, if the whole thing were not so heart-rending and tragic, and if Mr. Herzog's gruff humanism didn't bring you to tears.
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Rosealia's story is the richest, not least for the family that surrounds her, including her boisterous father (DeMone) and her soon-to-be brother-in-law, Joey, played by Seth Clayton in a tender, funny, heart-rending performance.
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Paul Krugman On Wednesday, after listening to the heart-rending stories of those who lost children and friends in the Parkland school shooting — while holding a cue card with empathetic-sounding phrases — Donald Trump proposed his answer: arming schoolteachers.
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Read these stories next: I've Been Sober For 4 Years: Please Never Ask Or Say These Things To Me Again I Quit Drinking For A Month — & These 12 Things Happened Tallulah Willis Celebrates 3 Years Sober In Heart-Rending Instagram
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But she also brings a fragility and a warmth to Fonsia that are immensely touching, and when the play's emotional climax arrives — the only moment when Fonsia turns to Weller for desperately needed solace — Ms. Tyson is utterly heart-rending.
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Far more important, the Games have been, once again, mostly what the Olympics are all about — a fabulous festival of youthful competition, of great moments of triumph and heart-rending images of defeat, of superhuman achievement and intensely human emotion.
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Based on a play by the 19th-century Hungarian writer Ede Toth, it was cast with actors from Hungary's National Theater, among them the grande dame Mari Jaszai, playing the heart-rending role of the "undesirable" heroine's unjustly imprisoned mother.
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His plight can be felt as he writes a heart-rending account of his day-to-day existence in seeking work, realizing aspirations and planning retirement and ultimately where he will be able to live the rest of his life.
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Continued fallout from Carl's heart-rending death in last week's episode dominates the action, as various characters clumsily process the loss and wonder what kind of world would take such a kind and decent person in the prime of his life.
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Two months earlier, his reputation as a popular teacher of Buddhism and longtime friend of the Dalai Lama's unraveled when eight students wrote a damning, heart-rending letter that outlined allegations of years of abuse by Sogyal Rinpoche against them.
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It&aposs a heart-rending message to a missing son who&aposs likely among those who drowned seeking refuge in the azure waters off the Greek hamlet of Mati from a raging wildfire that incinerated everything in its path with unfathomable speed.
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Despite the heart-rending pleas of Rich's family, Hannity continues to create a conspiracy theory circus, one in which he is both the real victim and a martyr journalist, the only one brave enough to risk his job to tell the truth.
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WASHINGTON — Not long ago, as heart-rending images of migrant children separated from their parents at the border filled the airwaves, the issue of immigration seemed to be losing some of its potency as a weapon for Republicans with the midterm elections approaching.
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KARLSRUHE, Germany — Pushing a stroller toward the rehearsal space of the Badisches State Theater in Karlsruhe, a pleasant city in southwest Germany, Anna Bergmann stopped to comfort her 2½-year-old son, whose sunny demeanor had suddenly dissolved into heart-rending sobs.
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In the aria's heart-rending final moments, he veers from a soft, fragile falsetto to an anguished, booming bass — conjuring in an instant the pain, vulnerability and rage of the powerful King Philip as he realizes that his wife has never loved him.
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Judge Corrigan wrote about the broad discretion that district judges exercise, describing experiences from his 20203 years on the bench that were both heart-rending (tear-stained letters from young children begging mercy for their parents) and hair-raising (an assassination attempt).
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The book is crammed with heart-rending stories and statistics about the sorry state of India's workforce: 18% of young people between the ages of 15 and 29 are unemployed, just 23% of working-age women actually work and participation rates are falling.
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Frank Bruni THERE aren't any ready answers for how to end this cycle of bloodshed, these heart-rending images from Louisiana and Minnesota and Texas of a country in desperate trouble, with so much pain to soothe, rage to exorcise and injustice to confront.
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The Life of Pablo was a revolution on several fronts: it introduced Desiigner's inimitable presence to the world, made gospel cool, and showed that questionable audio mixing and even more questionable lyrics can be overlooked if your music is heart-rending and original enough.
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The medieval painter Ambrogio Lorenzetti "focused attention" on the evils of bad government; Caravaggio showed us cardsharps and torturers; Goya made heart-rending prints of the evils of war — and none of them ever thought that such ills would end once they'd revealed them.
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Opinion Columnist Paul Tough's important new book on the broken promises of higher education begins with a chapter that he succeeds in making as suspenseful as the prologue of any serial-killer novel and as heart-rending as the climax of an epic romance.
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We have been perpetually reminded of home and family by the wailings, which were once familiar to parental ears and heart, and felt thankful that to the sorrows of childhood our children would never have superadded the heart-rending woes of the slave trade.
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We have been perpetually reminded of home and family by the wailings, which were once familiar to parental ears and heart, and felt thankful that to the sorrows of childhood our children would never have superadded the heart-rending woes of the slave trade.
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Visiting the area later on Saturday, President Juan Manuel Santos declared a state of emergency as the military, and emergency workers from the National Unit for Disaster Risk Management, began the heart-rending task of sifting through the mud in search of victims and survivors.
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Every single story told by a soldier — on any side — is heart-rending and terrifying, and underlines the slow-building sense that something went very wrong on the parts of those who worked for the various governments, or even just the families back home.
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F. Music is forever finding new ways to express love and loss, as the British soul singer gorgeously reminded us on this spare, tender elegy — a heart-rending tribute to both the instrument and the strength of the woman (his late mother, Binty) who supplied it. —L.
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Any Knicks fan foolhardy enough to stay awake through the second half of Monday night's clash with the Clippers out in Los Angeles was treated to a heart-rending moment of defensive fortitude in the face of almost certain humiliation from their beloved unicorn, Kristaps Porzingis.
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LONDON (Reuters) - Wimbledon champion Jana Novotna was a true winner but it was the misfortune of the brilliant Czech, who died on Monday aged 49, to always be recalled for one of sport's most famous and heart-rending meltdowns despite her collection of 163 tennis titles.
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The risk for Trump is that he is increasingly isolated amid a torrent of criticism of the separations, from political, spiritual, business leaders and even US allies, unleashed by heart rending audio of wailing children and pictures of kids in chain-link fencing in detention facilities.
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It's told in the second person — "He asks you if you dreamed the way he did and you say no, your eyes avoiding his, and he turns away from you" — a style that, well-executed in Adichie's hands, makes the story feel all the more heart-rending.
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Hard on the furor over that murder, The Times published heart-rending reporting and photography by Declan Walsh and Tyler Hicks from the killing fields of Yemen, a war that Prince Mohammed has waged with murderous bombing raids using weapons largely provided by the United States.
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The author has crafted an exceptionally perceptive child—perhaps overly so, on subjects like faith and belonging—but Ono, who won the Akutagawa Prize, Japan's most prestigious award for emerging fiction writers, is so skilled at conveying emotion that Takeru and his world are mesmerizing, and often heart-rending.
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Its animation innocent (the light from those fireflies!) and message heart-rending, the haunting tale — based on a semi-autobiographical story by Akiyuki Nosaka — follows a teenage boy and his younger sister as they try to survive the firebombing of Japan by American forces during World War II.
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Those that make the hard and heart-rending journey to the UK from former imperial outposts often set out expecting to find the version of Britain—and Europe, and the West—that has been sold to the outside world: prosperous, tolerant, a place where money can be made, and security found.
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But add Henry Purcell's ineffably beautiful melodies in "Dido and Aeneas," and Dido, the jilted heroine, in a parting lament sung to her maid, Belinda, delivers this as one of the most heart-rending lines in all of opera, as she faces a lonely death with dignity and generous spirit intact.
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John Adams pines for Constance Fletcher; Jo the Loiterer marries Indiana Elliot and they bicker about changing her name; in the work's heart-rending climax — laughably anticlimactic to describe — her allies try to get Susan B., wearied to her core, to leave her house and speak at one more meeting.
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They were asked if they understood basic principles of the court system, such as the presumption of innocence; if their knowledge of the case had led them to any conclusions about guilt or innocence; and if they would be able to separate their emotions from facts when confronted with heart-rending testimony.
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The jury of nine whites and three blacks, who last month found Mr. Roof guilty of 33 counts for the attack at this city's Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church, returned their unanimous verdict after about three hours of deliberations in the penalty phase of a heart-rending and often legally confounding trial.
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The only question is this: Why did not Germany invite some of its fellow Europeans from desperately poor Melilla, Andalucía, Extremadura (Spain) and Dytiki Ellada (Greece), where unemployment rates currently range from 25 percent to 245 percent, and where the destitute youth jobless rates go from 20173 percent to a heart-rending 22017 percent.
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Her first record, Midwest Farmer's Daughter, reflects on the years of struggle—including a jail stint and hocking her wedding ring—she went through on the road to making it, and used songs like "This Town Gets Around" and the heart-rending autobiographical epic "Hands of Time" to call out music industry rejection and sexism.
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Stephanie Leutert, director of the Mexico Security Initiative at the University of Texas at Austin, obtained records from the sheriff of Brooks County, Texas, created a database, and is presenting an intriguing, heart-rending series about the information for Beyond the Border, a collaboration of the Strauss Center for International Security and Law and Lawfare.
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The rap from Plankton (Wesley Taylor) was nothing less than trapaholic, while Gavin Lee, who played Squidward, earned his standing ovation with his heart-rending rendition of "I'm Not a Loser," which was composed by They Might Be Giants's John Flansburgh and John Linnell—I shed a single tear while clapping my hands to the bone.
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The cup is coated with a brilliant sapphire-pale peel, a delicate blend of iron and brass, while a sweet, wafty white-dried syrup is added, which is strong, yet no-till-earthly; and, for the heart-rending and peculiar love of flowers, this is the place of suppression, of pregnant flowerbuds, of apple vitality, and of sadness.
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Those 20 minutes were death to the day's schedule, but invaluable for showing the harried doctor something of the grim labor of everyday life for this patient, a heart-rending discomfort of binding elastic and straining seams she could never have articulated, and, of course, one that would have been invisible with her on display in a hospital gown.
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In some places, it's almost a direct lift of a similar moment in the movie Titanic, and that's another movie where you get the most high-level explanation possible of why the ship is sinking, so you can simply let go and watch as the characters dash around the boat, barely evading death in heart-rending fashion.
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In a heart-rending inversion of a typical dedication page, where the author often thanks his or her family, "Spy of the First Person" is dedicated to the author himself: "Sam's children, Hannah, Walker and Jesse would like to recognize their father's life and work and the tremendous effort he made to complete his final book."
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But heart-rending stories featuring young immigrants continue to emerge, such as a recent Des Moines Register article about Manuel Antonio Cano Pacheco, who arrived in the United States at age 3, was forced by immigration authorities to leave his home in Iowa in April, just before his high school graduation, and was killed in Mexico.
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" * The full title of the book, available in a beautiful reproduction on the Portal to Texas History, is "The Great Galveston Disaster, Containing a Full and Thrilling Account of the Most Appalling Calamity of Modern Times Including Vivid Descriptions of the Hurricane and Terrible Rush of Waters; Immense Destruction of Dwellings, Business Houses, Churches, and Loss of Thousands of Human Lives; Thrilling Tales of Heroic Deeds; Panic-Stricken Multitudes and Heart-Rending Scenes of Agony; Frantic Efforts to Escape a Horrible Fate; Separation of Loved Ones, Etc.
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When we look back on this show in the decades to come, thinking about its finest hours, I can't help but imagine that we'll revisit many moments from this episode, from that nearly wordless, heart-rending prologue to that scene where Philip and Elizabeth argue about est but aren't really arguing about est; from the look of relief on Matthew Rhys's face when Gabriel grants Philip and Elizabeth a reprieve to the graceful transition from now to "7 months later," which overcame the potential hackiness of a time jump.
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