“He has the name and voice of a raddled troubadour chasing his dissolution around the American heartland.”

“He was a white, male Afrikaner from the heartland of the volk, the Free State.”

“Too few troops on the ground going in left the heartland unconquered and rearguard supply troops vulnerable to attack.”

“The rich and layered contemporary soundscapes owe less to the Celtic fringes than to England's northern heartlands.”

“The land was close to his heart as were the people who were rooted in the soil and the psyche of the rural heartlands.”

“The creeping fear of what might happen next is influencing public opinion even in the American heartlands.”