Many adoption cases tug at the heartstrings. From Wordnet, Princeton University.
But what really pulls at our heartstrings is the attention SLS devotes to your dog. From Wordnik.com. [HotelChatter -] Reference
The word "heartstrings" originally referred to the internal tendons of the heart. From Wordnik.com. [Line-by-line exegesis of "Black Muddy River" by Andrew Stiller] Reference
The great quest is strong at my heartstrings again. From Wordnik.com. [The Maid of the Whispering Hills] Reference
But newer competitors are tugging at my heartstrings. From Wordnik.com. [Personal Picks: Family sedans, part 2] Reference
Still, though, obviously it pulls at the heartstrings. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Mar 28, 2007] Reference
A story that will tug at your heartstrings, coming up. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Nov 30, 2007] Reference
Doesn't that sort of pull on your heartstrings at all?. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Apr 30, 2007] Reference
That wracks our breasts and rends our very heartstrings. From Wordnik.com. [The Satyricon — Complete] Reference
It pulled on Jimmy Kimmel ` s heartstrings a little bit. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Apr 26, 2005] Reference
A decision in fact that really tugs at your heartstrings. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Nov 23, 2008] Reference
But I saw, when those heartstrings were bleeding and torn. From Wordnik.com. [Sanders' Union Fourth Reader] Reference
Regret! why the thought of leaving tore her very heartstrings. From Wordnik.com. [The Land of Promise] Reference
It tugs at your heartstrings when you hear about the two babies. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Aug 20, 2008] Reference
There were her heartstrings at their odd little twitching again!. From Wordnik.com. [Miss Theodosia's Heartstrings] Reference
It was really a heartfelt show, really tugged at the heartstrings. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Jan 18, 2007] Reference
It's meant to pluck heartstrings, but it only weighs the show down. From Wordnik.com. [Tune In, Turn On] Reference
COLLINS: She tugs at their heartstrings and tells them what to read. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Jan 26, 2006] Reference
We are all, as I said, bound by the heartstrings in a common interest. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 13, No. 77, March, 1864] Reference
A daughter's tender heartstrings are too sensitive for such stoic touch. From Wordnik.com. [Oswald Langdon or, Pierre and Paul Lanier. A Romance of 1894-1898] Reference
Words fail when the heartstrings are thrilled to trembling and to tears. From Wordnik.com. [Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 17, No. 100, April, 1876] Reference
But if it touches a mogul's heartstrings, you can bet it'll be expensive. From Wordnik.com. [Luxury Goes Undercover] Reference
The sights of a small child in strife would pull at anybody's heartstrings. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Feb 11, 2006] Reference
And also Mary Snow with a story that really pulled at all of our heartstrings. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Jan 19, 2010] Reference
Her heartstrings were at a dangerous stretch, she quivering at the point of tears. From Wordnik.com. [Little Novels of Italy Madonna Of The Peach-Tree, Ippolita In The Hills, The Duchess Of Nona, Messer Cino And The Live Coal, The Judgment Of Borso] Reference
HILL: I think we kind of have -- that's the wonderful emotional tug at your heartstrings. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Dec 8, 2008] Reference
Miss Theodosia uttered softly, for the pictures were instantly tangled in her heartstrings. From Wordnik.com. [Miss Theodosia's Heartstrings] Reference
He knew that every prodigal would feel a tug at the heartstrings and an impulse to go home. From Wordnik.com. [The Unfolding Life A Study of Development with Reference to Religious Training] Reference
The second thing is the heartstrings of the case, which is his reaction to the extortion to them. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Sep 22, 2009] Reference
Now, mind you, I ` m really angry, because they have been using the media to pull at our heartstrings. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Sep 11, 2007] Reference
If these kids are pulling at your heartstrings, I'll explain the adoption process as it stands right now. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Jan 18, 2010] Reference
Psychological changes were taking place -- or were they just plain tugs on Miss Theodosia's heartstrings?. From Wordnik.com. [Miss Theodosia's Heartstrings] Reference
It had to really tug your heartstrings, knowing what they ` re going ready to get into and just left there. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Jan 31, 2008] Reference
The small, hot hands tugged at her heartstrings -- they must have tugged, just so, at that ancient rocking. From Wordnik.com. [Miss Theodosia's Heartstrings] Reference
GUPTA: Yes, you know, I think this is one thing that it always sort of tugs at your heartstrings a little bit. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Sep 20, 2007] Reference
NGUYEN: Being around the family, especially with that little one now, has got to really tear at the heartstrings. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Jun 16, 2007] Reference
HAMMER: (UNINTELLIGIBLE) Suddenly, there were tears flowing but I felt that the heartstrings tugging a little bit. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript May 5, 2008] Reference
Cupid's fingers on one's heartstrings; the next, he determined to heal the wounded heart at his feet -- though with the lance. From Wordnik.com. [A Heart-Song of To-day] Reference
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