Something warm and alive that looked heartrendingly like hope.    From Wordnik.com.  [Gage Butler's Reckoning]

There are moments in the end that are just heartrendingly profound.    From Wordnik.com.  [Scott Mendelson: 2009 in Review: The Guilty Pleasures, the Surprisingly Good, and the Runners-up] Reference

This looks like it will be absolutely, heartrendingly beautiful and awesome.    From Wordnik.com.  [‘77 Movie Trailer | /Film] Reference

Both were heartrendingly withdrawn, with a silence that projected concealed pain.    From Wordnik.com.  [Wyoming Territory]

As they began their slow procession toward us, suddenly, heartrendingly, Martin got his wish.    From Wordnik.com.  [Working Murder]

But for the most part, my sentimental journeys across the seas of time have proven heartrendingly unsatisfactory.    From Wordnik.com.  [Tracing My Roots and Coming Up With Dirt] Reference

Quote of the weekAppealing to the government to extend free school meals to those on low incomes, Ofsted reported heartrendingly.    From Wordnik.com.  [Crib sheet 29.06.10] Reference

Something I did not say the other day when you were so heartrendingly frightened was that I had an infection a year ago that spread to my heart and I nearly died and even with that I am okay now.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Heart is a Muscle, Redux | Her Bad Mother] Reference

Crowley never forces the readers to choose sides, but instead makes us fall in love with his characters--the old knight and his young wife, the young prince who falls in love with her, the deposed king, locked away in an old mansion and left to his heartrendingly portrayed madness.    From Wordnik.com.  [Archive 2005-12-01] Reference

It's the kind of story I heard repeatedly, heartrendingly when I visited Colombia last month with a delegation of British Parliamentarians and unionists led by the United Steelworkers and Unite the Union, which together last year formed Workers Uniting, the first transatlantic union.    From Wordnik.com.  [Fred Redmond: No Evidence Found that Colombia Suddenly FTA-Worthy] Reference

But finding acceptance can be heartrendingly difficult.    From Wordnik.com.  [WN.com - Business News] Reference

His Blindfold is heartrendingly beautiful; so vulnerable and convincing.    From Wordnik.com.  [Comic Book Resources] Reference

It struck him as strangely changed, strangely and heartrendingly familiar.    From Wordnik.com.  [Sisters] Reference

Vernon's a cappella version was heartrendingly pure, each perfect, round note filled with painful meaning.    From Wordnik.com.  [Expecting Rain] Reference

I have to groan heartrendingly in one of them, and it's really hard to get up a good artistic groan, Marilla.    From Wordnik.com.  [Anne of Green Gables] Reference

In Bombay, Kehna Hai kya describes the blossoming of love so well, and Tuhin Re is so heartrendingly beautiful.    From Wordnik.com.  [NAACHGAANA] Reference

Mamie Chen, for a heartrendingly hard look at herself and her spending and, relatedly, a tax-day dinner of surprises.    From Wordnik.com.  [ Politics] Reference

The lyrics are as heartrendingly brilliant as they were 23 years ago, a paen to the miniscule details and grand horror of loneliness.    From Wordnik.com.  [MoJo Blogs and Articles] Reference

Bringing one of the most beautiful voices in rock to bear on her subject matter, Case heartrendingly describes her forays into love and life.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Tech - MIT's Student Newspaper] Reference

Light Lifting notwithstanding, the most affecting and heartrendingly poignant report on the swervacious proceedings came from St. Clair College's Irene Moore Davis, BookFest.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Globe and Mail - Home RSS feed] Reference

Surely, anyone with self-respect has a horror of becoming a liability or, as a son heartrendingly described his mother in Margo's film, "a shrivelled shell shrunk into the corner of the bed".    From Wordnik.com. Reference

Sunday night I sat at the bar at the Hamilton Tavern and ate a pulled-duck barbecue sandwich, straight through, no stopping, because it was the most heartrendingly delicious thing, with the cole slaw and all?.    From Wordnik.com.  [Baltiblogs] Reference

All things seemed to become more modest and reconciled; and farmers hawked out their last jests at one another, mounted their gigs and drove home; and the flocks of sheep and droves of cattle pattered by, bleating and lowing not so heartrendingly.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Judge] Reference

His fancy fed eagerly on stories of Draugen, the terrible sea-bogie who yells heartrendingly in the storm, and the sight of whom means death; on blood-curdling tales of Finnish sorcery and all sorts of uncanny mysteries; on folk-legends of trolds, nixies, and foul-weather sprites.    From Wordnik.com.  [Essays on Scandinavian Literature] Reference

They must've put something in motion, too, because, as I listen now, bits of brilliance shine out of what was merely an agreeable haze: the Motown-inflected percussion on "French Navy," the final vocal lift on "Other Towns and Cities," the surfy guitar lines on "Sweetest Thing," the third time Campbell declares "I don't wanna be sad again" on the title track, heartrendingly different than the second or fourth utterance.    From Wordnik.com.  [Yale Daily News: Latest Issue] Reference

It’s beautiful, touching, and heartrendingly sincere; something true and worthy of the human race.    From Wordnik.com.  [Win Torchwood: The Official Magazine Yearbook : SF Universe - SF Universe is your Science Fiction central. From SciFi television to movies to books and more. All the latest news, reviews and insights from SciFi experts.] Reference

You’re just as lost as I am, like a puppy looking for his father, wondering why every new Hollywood project is a remake, sequel or a technically good film but heartrendingly depressing.    From Wordnik.com.  [A New Conan The Barbarian Is Named | Manolith] Reference

I’m sure some of that had to do with language–it simply means something different when everybody in the room actually understands the words and can grasp how heartrendingly beautiful the psalms and prayers really are.    From Wordnik.com.  [Day 3 - Danya Ruttenberg] Reference

Her expression was heartrendingly childlike.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Mocking Program]

That might be why he's so heartrendingly beautiful. ".    From Wordnik.com.  [Anime Nano!] Reference

How horribly, heartrendingly true.    From Wordnik.com.  [Lisa writes...] Reference