How To Use Heartbreaking In A Sentence

The fifth series of this thriller is more terrifying and heartbreaking than ever. The Sun
But they are my responsibility, and it's always heartbreaking if a hive dies out.
• En route to Europe, Clinton called the multibillion-dollar American reconstruction effort in Afghanistan "heartbreaking," because she said there was little to show for it. ModerateVoters.org
Having watched reasonably moderate candidates lose the last two presidential elections in heartbreaking fashion, and feeling further frustrated by the steady failure to win either house of Congress, Democrats have made it an article of faith that they lack the political and policy mechanisms to compete with their Republican counterparts. Take Two: Hillary's Choice
I've seen it happen more than once to some very dear, sweet people, and it's really heartbreaking to watch.

I found it especially heartbreaking to read these first-person accounts of the shootings at the Tennessee Valley Unitarian Universalist Church in Knoxville by LiveJournal users bekitty, writingjen, daughter of shooting victim John Worth, and her husband salvador-dalai via the UU LiveJournal group Chalice Circle. Philocrites: First-person accounts of Knoxville church shooting.
This is inarguably great art, but for now the lyrics are heartbreaking. Times, Sunday Times
The Times obit states he even tried electroshock, which is just heartbreaking. DFW THOUGHTS
Although Somerhalder doesn't believe that Damon will continue down his heartbreakingly vulnerable path too long, he does reveal it will become problematic. Vampire Diaries' Ian Somerhalder: Andie Is Damon's "Hot Beard"
There was something involuted and heartbreaking in his friend's compassion for him. THE BROKEN GOD
After this heartbreaking experience, Thorpe turned to professional sports.
The stories are heartbreaking, but the privilege of the briefest of glimpses of the lost lives is also revealing and inspiring.
Sadly, many other families were not as fortunate, and the loss of their loved ones must have been heartbreaking.
The writing is her usual blend of charming whimsy, heartbreaking poignancy and sometimes impenetrable surrealism.
Losing her at Christmas is bad, but the presents were heartbreaking.
Look no further than the heartbreaking lyrics and painfully sad mourning orchestral refrains of ‘I Left You’.
The couple then had to break the heartbreaking news to Sarah's brother, who was travelling in Australia.
Virginia (5-4, 3-2) had its four-game winning streak end, and in heartbreaking fashion, too, after shutting down the ACC's best scoring offense until the very end. USATODAY.com
Here, too, are contemporary Lebanese whose stories tell a larger, heartbreaking tale of seemingly endless warand of survival. The Hakawati: Summary and book reviews of The Hakawati by Rabih Alameddine.
her sigh was heartbreaking
That makes for a heartbreakingly sexy hero and tough as nails heroine. NZ/Aus Authors: Anna Campbell - Captive of Sin
There have been two heartbreaking situations in Scotland recently where newborn babies have been abandoned.
We know, heartbreakingly so, that even very dedicated and inspired artists fail to claim and hold attention for their work. Agnes Gund: Helping Artists Become Artists
The sight of him was as heartbreaking as nis harsh words had been. One White Rose
The fifth series of this thriller is more terrifying and heartbreaking than ever. The Sun
He rewinds the tape to replay a passage about a girl he was courting at the time, and the ineffable sadness that creeps over his face is heartbreaking.
Losing its last overtime matchup in heartbreaking fashion to USATODAY.com
That gap, that human gap between ethics and the law is something you explore very powerfully in this book and, heartbreakingly I think for us and yourself, come away with no answers, as you've just said.
Some stories told to her by families are heartbreaking and it is hard not to become emotionally involved.
Anything touching or heartbreaking or informative I might have to say was already written as fiction in a novel that's sadly out of print.
From A Basement On The Hill - Elliott Smith The troubled artist left this coil in 2004, and the album he left behind is wonderful and heartbreaking all at once.
Instead, she has chosen a dangerous, heartbreaking life, which sees risk and suffering and gross inhumanity every single day.
The couple is calling on Prime Minister Stephen Harper to end the hunt, which they described as a heartbreaking slaughter. March 2006
Mostly, it's the heartbreakingly honest performances by the film's four main actresses – and that Daniels dared to give Mariah Carey a mustache. Women of 'Precious' undertake transformational roles
The answers we've heard are heartbreaking: a fourth grader who thinks he's stupid because his undiagnosed dyslexia means he can't read even a single word, a second grader who stays in a homeless shelter and is too scared to sleep at night, a kindergartener whose family ran out of food stamps before the end of the month and is too hungry to pay attention. Judith Sandalow: Suspended Disbelief
Now, the flip side of the heartbreaking stories we've had to bring you in abundance this week are the breathtaking stories of survival.
An apologia, even when desperately, heartbreakingly wrong, is a sort of bridge between evil and good, an acknowledgement that there is something here that needs explaining.
The process that followed was thoroughly unpleasant and nothing but heartbreaking to the bitter end. Christianity Today
Is it heartbreaking to have an entire prison population reject your lasagna?
And the title story, “Jesus Out To Sea,” is just plain heartbreaking, no matter how many times you read it. Kristine Kathryn Rusch » 2008 » June
Leo's lines are alternately funny and heartbreaking, and you root for her as such overcomes incapacitating anxiety to join Doug in New Orleans and find in Allison the daughter they once lost. Sundance Review: Kristen Stewart’s ‘Welcome To The Rileys’ » MTV Movies Blog
Speaking as a father of a young son and a daughter, I find this heartbreaking and tragic.
John, faced with a heartbreaking decision no five-year-old should ever have to make, chose his father.
It was amazingly difficult and heartbreaking but he never gave up.
Neither did she shed a single tear, but the vacant light of her eyes had stamped a fatuitous expression on her features that was melancholy and heartbreaking beyond all power of language to describe. Willy Reilly The Works of William Carleton, Volume One
It's tragic and heartbreaking, but it should not be considered a point of debate.
Sure this dusty road has been walked before, but the band are pretty savvy wallowers: They understand their sadness is an American institution and that part of the tragedy of their roots revival is that this heartbreaking music needs to be revived at all. Deer Tick at Tractor Tavern: Finger-Plucked-Melodies Worn Down by Melancholy. « PubliCola
He would be heartbreakingly tender with her body while he crucified her mind and dragged her pride through the mud.
Put Emmanuel's cinematography alongside Wagner's "Vorspiel" and you have one of the most beautiful, heartbreaking and tender moments of the decade. Design of a Decade: The Greatest Hits of the '00s - Part V
It does indeed seem counterintuitive to continue the heartbreaking and futile process of militarizing the area, bullying and repatriating people.
David is here to talk about living with a heartbreaking loss, and he will take your calls.
It's a poignant, almost heartbreaking portrait of urban American loneliness, alienation and obsession.
The most impressive thing about McIlroy's game, after watching him for 36 holes, is his imperturbable rhythm—not just the rhythm of his heartbreakingly beautiful, powerful swing he outdrove Johnson and Mickelson much more than they outdrove him, but the rhythm of his routine. Inside the Ropes With Rory
The travelling folk, or tinkers, were often treated as second-class citizens, with heartbreaking consequences.
A pulmotor was put into immediate action, and another period of heartbreaking suspense ensued. The Slipper Point Mystery
Bethlehem Records signed her in 1957 and two years later, her heartbreaking version of Gershwin's hit sold over a million records.
Of all the operas that end in personal tragedy, none is more heartbreaking than the story of a Japanese geisha who renounces her native culture for the love of a feckless American sailor.
It was so heartbreaking to see lots of people traumatised by the war and living in bombed out buildings.
Her struggle with the drought is gut-wrenching and the ending heartbreaking.
That chapel remains one of the most heartbreaking sights in England.
The desperation of those who speak at the edge of tears about discrimination and deportation is heartbreaking. "9500 Liberty" looks back at Prince William immigration wars
After all, it's plain that nothing really dreadful or heartbreaking could possibly happen to people this pleasant or cultured.
The Diplo-produced Beat of My Drum hinted at her leftfield ambitions; the slower, funereal I and the heartbreaking fame parable Sticks + Stones sounded grownup, introspective and happily odd. Nicola Roberts: Cinderella's Eyes – review
LSU - showing no aftereffects from a heartbreaking loss last week - rolled to a 51-0 Southeastern Conference victory over USATODAY.com
Monday night's show is both dizzyingly ferocious and heartbreakingly beautiful, all choreographed in semi-darkness for maximum psychological impact.
Entering a chili contest can be heartbreaking, but judging one takes the skin of an elephant.
The decision to euthanase a pet is heartbreaking.
In addition to a weaving violin and a zither that sends chills down your spine, there is a solo voice - similar to the muezzin's call from the minarets - that is full of heartbreaking longing.
Flickr user Sweet Juniper has a heartbreaking, gorgeous and horrifying set of photos of a rotting Detroit school book depository, where mountains of yellowing, damp, torn schoolbooks moulder, right in the middle of town: Boing Boing
But because its Aleksandar Hemon, the stories extend far beyond the immigrant experience; each one is punctuated with unexpected humor and spins out in fabulist, exhilarating directions, ultimately building to an insightful, often heartbreaking conclusion. Love and Obstacles by Aleksandar Hemon: Book summary
It's heartbreaking sometimes to read the accounts of the early explorers and realize how the eastern forest once teemed and pullulated with wildlife in a way we can scarcely imagine now. Hoarded Ordinaries
Steeped in disappointment and heartbreaking stupidity, this new play is a dismayingly dim-witted musical. Times, Sunday Times
Smith ached for revenge after a heartbreaking defeat his junior year.
I've seen it happen more than once to some very dear, sweet people, and it's really heartbreaking to watch.
And this gives a lot of fuel to those arguments, and it's really heartbreaking.
For all of Matthew's admirable qualities, he had one heartbreaking imperfection.
There are many heartbreaking narratives from families whose loved ones have died of mental illnesses.
Luce rues that a middle-class home is crowded—only 700 square feet—and "cluttered with chintzy memorabilia" and heartbreakingly defiant messages on refrigerator magnets.
Heartbreaking though it was to prove my parents right yet again in their decision not to buy me my own skates as my flirtation with the ice would be a passing affair, I turned my attention to a nice dry, warm, indoor sport - basketball.
The couple went to the airport where they said their final heartbreaking goodbyes to each other.
It has been absolutely heartbreaking to have it cancelled each time.
After this heartbreaking experience, Thorpe turned to professional sports.
The forward cylinder was depending on that unknown force men call the pertinacity of materials, which now and then balances that other heartbreaking power, the perversity of inanimate things. The Day's Work - Volume 1
‘This is an epistolary novel so heartbreaking that no one is likely to surpass its emotional effects in a letter form’, writes Irving.
My postbag is filled with heartbreaking stories of law-abiding families whose lives are made a living hell by the actions of a few uncaring, selfish individuals whose thoughtlessness or ruthless criminal actions blight and intimidate whole neighbourhoods. Landlords to be given new powers to evict 'neighbours from hell'
The process that followed was thoroughly unpleasant and nothing but heartbreaking to the bitter end. Christianity Today
Both jobs offer all the possibilities in the world, including fame, success, travel and personal achievement, but things can also go terribly, heartbreakingly wrong if the young hopefuls are rejected.
They encouraged him to think he could return home as a star; by the time he left, his yearning was heartbreaking.
Also heartbreaking is the moment when he's kneeling in front of her, holding her as he must have done as a child, with his head in her lap, so upset -- and we feel the full effect of his estrangement from her. Brief thoughts of a Bardish nature
Realising that within the framework of a tender and heartbreaking love affair, is a very special achievement.
Watching her thrown into this heartbreaking cycle of events made us feel so small, so impotent, so powerless.
After a heartbreaking summer which reached the highest number of road deaths in recent years, August and September witnessed a slump on comparative years.
Instead, she has chosen a dangerous, heartbreaking life, which sees risk and suffering and gross inhumanity every single day.
Sometimes heartbreaking, often very funny, Summertime shows us a great writer as he limbers up for his task. 2009 May 24 | NIGEL BEALE NOTA BENE BOOKS
With grace, dignity and a heartbreaking absence of despair, she pulls the blanket around herself.
From the first strike of the tam-tam and the insinuating Viennese oboe, he knows that he is taking the listener on a journey through pain and despair towards a heartbreaking resignation and acceptance.
His final words on John Locke were heartbreaking, bone-chilling, and illustrative of the cynical moral outlook this man sports. LOST: Episodes 6.01 & 6.02 Recap, ‘LA X’ » MTV Movies Blog
The ending is heartbreaking: although we know what's going to happen when the bombs fall, Zusak does not dissipate the emotional power of the moment: it will be stony-hearted reader whose eyes are not moist when Rudy finally, too late, gets his kiss from Liesel. :Acquired Taste
16:39 Heartbreakingly lovely gusli music: bit.ly/2S9evF # October 6th, 2009
When the workers are slow to grasp that reality, the results are often heartbreaking.
After this heartbreaking experience, Thorpe turned to professional sports.
It is really heartbreaking to see flocks of buffaloes and oxen being taken to slaughterhouses tied together with ropes around their noses.
That is a claw in my shoulder," Oprah sings as Elvis continues to hog the scene and to look heartbreakingly cute. Regis, like Oprah, signs off
His public funeral and the later memorial evening of performances by the company are described with heartbreaking poignancy.
The film also beautifully realizes the unusual, emotionally charged, and heartbreaking romance between Winchell and Addams.
Instead they brought heartbreaking news of the death of a son, a father, a brother or some other loved one.
I wanted both," he tells his beloved Shannon, rather heartbreakingly. Matt's TV Week in Review
The San Francisco Chronicle wrote, "[Bohjalians] hallmark: Ordinary people in heartbreaking circumstances behaving with grace and dignity. Before You Know Kindness by Chris Bohjalian: Questions
He rewinds the tape to replay a passage about a girl he was courting at the time, and the ineffable sadness that creeps over his face is heartbreaking.
Shirley Temple was only a child when she was there; the tiny hands and feet are heartbreaking. Jane Minogue: Hooray for Hollywood's Dearly Departed
From here on, Malik is protected and schooled by Luciani, perhaps too efficiently; in a heartbreaking late scene, the pupil spurns his mentor, like a vicious Prince Hal disdaining Falstaff.
Guess I'll look elsewhere. jason B saw this a week ago: it is absolutely heartbreakingly brilliant. all paries involved deserve awards noms. Watch the First Eight Minutes of The Hurt Locker | /Film
And so turns the heartbreaking wheel of justice for our local young rebels.
And now, living in Toronto, it is the lifeline to my greatest love: the heartbreakingly beautiful city of Montreal.
Suffice it to say that the smallest details foreshadow these surprises, in heartbreaking and heart-lifting ways.
It is very heartbreaking to now know my mum would probably be alive if the police had done a proper investigation first time around.
It was heartbreaking to watch he and his brother literally wasting away, without hope of recovery.
Absent a comment from Krakauer, we're left to enjoy the many genuine delights of the issue, which include a heartbreaking interview with Jan Arnold, the widow of guide Rob Hall, who perished in the '96 storm and who named his unborn daughter during a final phone call patched through to New Zealand when Hall was caught high on the mountain with no possibility of rescue. Stephanie Losee: Return to Thin Air — Without Jon Krakauer?
An apologia, even when desperately, heartbreakingly wrong, is a sort of bridge between evil and good, an acknowledgement that there is something here that needs explaining.
It is heartbreaking to see all of the trees in Princes Road felled and the ground being levelled.
When the scholar revisits their first meeting place, he feels heartbreaking.
Her expression was heartbreakingly sad, and Declan reached for her once more, but Keira moved away from his hand. The Year of Living Scandalously
The Man Who '' is a kind of tragicomic variety show, in which dysfunction becomes both heartbreaking and hilarious. A Tragicomic Variety Show
This year we won't even be able to buy presents for our grandchildren. It's heartbreaking.
No one who has heard Horowitz in Traumerei could fail to be touched by its heartbreaking sincerity and reflective melancholy.
The Diplo-produced Beat of My Drum hinted at her leftfield ambitions; the slower, funereal I and the heartbreaking fame parable Sticks + Stones sounded grownup, introspective and happily odd. Nicola Roberts: Cinderella's Eyes – review
The third dance, the sarabande, was a slow lyrical piece, heartbreaking in its simplicity. Plain Language
By the time the renowned Swiss papyrologist Rodolphe Kasser got hold of it in 2001, it was in a heartbreaking condition. The Betrayer's Gospel
WOODRUFF: I think there's going to be every which kind of recrimination you can imagine. there's going to be somebody from every corner saying, "Well, if you'd only done this," or, "If you'd only done that" -- that's to be expected after a loss as heartbreaking as this one. CNN Transcript Nov 3, 2004
As members, you can read it for yourselves but the corruption, crime and hardship these people must endure is heartbreaking. Illegal Immigration in Chiapas
And for a country that was born of faith and the fearlessness of millions of people crawling, paddling and begging their ways here so they could be free to now be a country paralyzed by magical thinking and benumbed with viral fear is heartbreaking. Judith Acosta: How Marketers Capitalize On Your Fear: Confessions Of An Ex-Ad-Woman
The army of teachers' critics too rarely acknowledges the many heartbreaking barriers to teaching well in so many of our schools – the children's disillusion and poverty, endemically disrupted classes and the recognition that however hard a pupil works he or she will never get a good job locally. Teachers, stop being so defensive. It's time to embrace the no-excuses culture | Will Hutton
Every word of this story was heartbreakingly true, and it pains me to think that all the terrible things I saw happening there during my four years of high school didn't magically cease to occur after I graduated and went to college.
While Angel slept, Sarah planned her future with heartbreaking realism.
Well, I've only read one book about a bird before, Barry Hines's heartbreaking A Kestrel for a Knave, later retitled Kes to tie in with Ken Loach's film adaptation of that name.
The play is a heartbreaking but comical tale of the trials and tribulations couples go through.
This sequence is especially heartbreaking, as the screaming little girl is carried away to die.
Though their argument is supposed to be about the painting, it soon balloons into an examination of their 15-year friendship, with the heartbreakingly accurate verbal blows that only old friends can land.
It's heartbreaking to see people dying of such curable and treatable diseases.
The dishy trashing of the film by the reviewer is not only heartbreaking, it's downright offensive.
Yes, as part of her historic final season hosting her syndicated daytime talk show, Oprah intends to be the first TV star to share a stage with heartbreakingly cute animals - and not be upstaged. Regis, like Oprah, signs off
Monday night's show is both dizzyingly ferocious and heartbreakingly beautiful, all choreographed in semi-darkness for maximum psychological impact.
As I read, the writer elaborated on the material with heartbreaking tales of his family life.
Royalties for A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius have gone towards the establishment of 826, Valencia, an academy in San Francisco that encourages and teaches creative writing for those between the ages of eight and 18.

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