How To Use Heartstrings In A Sentence
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When he played his slide guitar in particular, it felt as if he was playing directly on the heartstrings.
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One feels the tug at musical language and our heartstrings.
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Their understanding of how the media works and their ability to pluck the public heartstrings was masterly.
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But seals are extraordinarily cute, celebrities love them (have you ever seen Paul McCartney hug a cow?) and animal rights activists use that emotional bewitchery to tug on people's heartstrings.
Toronto Sun
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The tragedy of the past is not recreated through a deliberate manipulation of the reader's heartstrings.
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It reached deep inside, plucking at the heartstrings, moving everyone's souls.
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His unique brand of humour will both pull on your heartstrings and make you smile.
The Sun
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All do a good job of tugging at your heartstrings.
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Presumably this scam is an attempt to tug at the heartstrings of gullible Christians.
Christian lepers need MY help??!! « Skulls in the Stars
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The film ends with a beautiful scene that will tug at your heartstrings.
Christianity Today
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Why must he tug on my heartstrings, moving me to tears, when there could be no redemption, no saving me?
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Their most recent album, The Coast is Never Clear, finds the septet expanding their sound where When Your Heartstrings Break left off.
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The film ends with a beautiful scene that will tug at your heartstrings.
Christianity Today
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It was clearly designed to tug the heartstrings, but the audience's only interest was in whether her nose was up to the job.
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Like most Disney movies it is visually sumptuous and plays on the heartstrings, but we left feeling a little underwhelmed.
Times, Sunday Times
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This powerful movie will tug at your heartstrings from beginning to end.
The Sun
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Next to the painting, real examples of similar coverings tug at your heartstrings with their angelic delicacy.
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Meanwhile, another homeless dog and her offspring tug on the heartstrings as a campaign begins to find them a home.
The Sun
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This plodding, wandering, disconnected story pulls out every melodramatic stop to tug at your heartstrings.
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It certainly shouldn't tug at the heartstrings, satisfy the mind and thrill visually all at the same time.
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Has the world cottoned on to my gentle wit, my innate sense of style, or my ability to tug at the emotional heartstrings so dextrously?
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Any more heartstrings to be plucked?
Times, Sunday Times
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Black and white family snaps always tug at the heartstrings - and especially this one of a giant panda with her young twins.
The Sun
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Ned felt something tug at his heartstrings, sympathy overwhelming him.
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One of the things I like most about minestrone is its sheer bulk: it's really a big bowl of carb-based joy, with a hefty garnish of vegetables to gladden the heartstrings of health.
How to cook perfect minestrone soup
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It ' s not a good sign, or portent, or whatever, that the only affecting character in " Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 1 " proves to be the emancipated elf Dobby, a bandy-legged, floppy-eared, scrawny-necked and mostly digital creature — based on Toby Jones ' s performance — who yanks really hard at your heartstrings in his hour of distress.
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Suttie thrums the heartstrings like a flamenco guitarist.
Edinburgh festival 2011: The highs and lows
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She knows exactly how to tug at readers' heartstrings.
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This is a film which knows that good films are meant to move us, but doesn't cynically tug on our heartstrings.
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In fact this is a very romantic comic, and none of it's overplayed or plucks the heartstrings unnecessarily.
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The problem with weepy movies much of the time is that they're made to tug at your heartstrings, and they use every trick in the book to do so.
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Some beggars operating in Swindon already use hard luck tales, often creating elaborate stories and faking emotion to tug at the heartstrings.
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Two recent headlines tugged at my heartstrings: Could ocean acidification deafen dolphins? and Ancient tribal language becomes extinct as last speaker dies.
Two Tragic Tastes That Taste Tragic Together « Gerry Canavan
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The film ends with a beautiful scene that will tug at your heartstrings.
Christianity Today
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Like most Disney movies it is visually sumptuous and plays on the heartstrings, but we left feeling a little underwhelmed.
Times, Sunday Times
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In addition to the message, A Christmas Carol is unadulterated theatre magic designed to yank at the heartstrings.
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It's not all brooding insolence though, there are glorious, uplifting love songs that pluck playfully at your heartstrings.
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And presenting it like a pantomime robs the ballet of any opportunity to tug at the heartstrings.
Times, Sunday Times
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The innocence pulled at the heartstrings as one imagined children, families, and friends who had lost their loved ones in a cruel way.
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The series has many positive qualities, not least an assortment of strong characters, but it sure does twang away at those heartstrings.
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Without the poetry needed to salvage it, this track has no hope of plucking any heartstrings.
The Sun
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I am sick of hearing those socialist MPs playing the heartstrings on the subject of drinking.
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TOMORROW: Another to tug the heartstrings.
The Sun
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He is an artist who provokes awe but sometimes forgets to pluck at the heartstrings.
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How many times have your heartstrings been tugged by the sight of your dog struggling to be the puppy he still wants to be?
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She had never seen this side of him before and she felt a tug at her heartstrings which alarmed her quite a bit.
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There is something about a player cradling the golden trophy that tugs at the heartstrings.
Times, Sunday Times
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BLACK and white family snaps always tug at the heartstrings - and especially this one of a giant panda with her young twins.
The Sun
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Does it twang your heartstrings?
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They unabashedly explain the techniques they use to tug at viewers' heartstrings.
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What tugs at Carlyon's heartstrings is the fate of the soldiers, the boys from the outback and the small towns who dreamed of glory but found only death and disaster in the barren wastes of Gallipoli.
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But what is good government against a twang on the heartstrings?
Times, Sunday Times
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But sometimes a dog really tugs at your heartstrings.
Times, Sunday Times
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His unique brand of humour will both pull on your heartstrings and make you smile.
The Sun
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Even though she was trying to tug on Gilligan's heartstrings, her feelings were a mirror of his own.
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She adds some light relief amid the anguish of a moving film that tugs at the heartstrings.
The Sun
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When he played his slide guitar in particular, it felt as if he was playing directly on the heartstrings.
Times, Sunday Times
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Zenyatta wasn't the only distaffer to pluck the heartstrings.
Times, Sunday Times
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The Lintons had heard many bands since they had been away, and some had played before the King himself; but no music had ever gripped at their heartstrings like the music of the little backblocks band that stood on the gravelled platform of Cunjee and played to welcome them home.
Back to Billabong
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It tugs at the heartstrings far more than its Flat counterpart.
The Sun
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All do a good job of tugging at your heartstrings.
Times, Sunday Times
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The emotions always seems real and spontaneous rather than cunningly manipulated to pull out the heartstrings.
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many adoption cases tug at the heartstrings
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Ryu Si Won - an outstanding and talented artiste whose personality and works tugged the heartstrings of many.
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Whereas the term "sentimental" can be used more often than not to hint at an indulgence in the emotionality it can imply, when speaking of a movie it might refer to the film being used to pull on the heartstrings and provoke the tear ducts of the audience in a contrived and calculated manner.
Carol Smaldino: A Surprise of Sentiment and 50-50
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It ripples out , moreover , to the heartstrings that will tug.
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One feels the tug at musical language and our heartstrings.
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The film was, for me, the apex of that ‘frivolous’ part of his career, balancing the comedy with enough drama to tug at those heartstrings.
