| Their stories are heart-rending and I am glad we are able to offer them the chance of safety and a better life. |
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| The heart-rending scenes that he witnessed turned him into a social worker and a spiritual thinker. |
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| Everybody has bitter experiences, horrific memories, and heart-rending stories of the past. |
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| From Virginia now, a heart-rending story of early birth and early death here. |
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| The storyline of the opera focuses on the heart-rending love story between the poet Rodolfo and the seamstress Mimi, a fragile but resolute girl. |
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| At the moment of judgement, some displayed surprise, some anger, others a heart-rending sadness. |
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| And in the most heart-rending story, we were shown that in certain cases the whole regime is simply too much for some young people. |
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| This makes the events that follow all the more poignant, and later heart-rending. |
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| There is nothing about the story that is not heart-rending, sickening or sordid. |
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| Dylan's heart-rending story prompted seven times the normal number of inquiries to Adoption Matters from people desperate to adopt him. |
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| Almost two years after Mary's untimely death, Kathleen is on a mission to make people aware of SADS with her heart-rending story. |
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| Yes, there have been Brits caught up in the horror, with heart-rending stories of drowned families and friends. |
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| Her heart-rending story touched a nation and even inspired its Prime Minister. |
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| The Prince listened as his former shipmate recounted a heart-rending story of his wife's illness and his own plunge into depression. |
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| There too I had heard heart-rending stories of the way maids were exploited and ill-treated by their employers. |
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| It's more the case that realistic, heart-rending emotions are simply out of place in the hyperreal Wenders world. |
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| There is a fair amount of ludicrous drag, broad farce, heart-rending, bosom-heaving dramatics and pithy asides to an appreciative audience. |
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| The News From Spain By Joan Wickersham Seven heart-rending love stories only peripherally about Spain. |
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| He provides a heart-rending account of the daily torment of sheer survival in this most poverty-stricken country in Asia. |
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| It was a heart-rending blow as we sat in the doctor's office and were told we would never experience the joy of bearing a child. |
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| It sounds very quick and sanitized, but it is really a heart-rending experience if anyone has ever gone through something similar to that. |
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| The heart-rending emotion and delicacy they evoke drips off just like the thin oil paint used in their depiction. |
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| Played with a plaintive acoustic edge, it's even more heart-rending than the original. |
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| From hilarious scenes to heart-rending arias, the show promises audiences a fun evening with an original take on opera in all its guises. |
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| Oscar winner Susan Sarandon delivers a brilliant, heart-rending performance in the delightful dramedy Jeff, Who Lives at Home. |
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| They contain some of the most exquisite, heart-rending, and thought-provoking writing I have come across. |
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| Their story, combining heart-rending drama and gutsy determination, was a natural for the big screen. |
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| Once in a while, a heart-rending cry would pierce the buzz of conversation. |
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| Drama, campiness, and comedy coexist equally on-stage, resulting in a brew which is hilarious and at the same time heart-rending. |
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| The girl uttered a cry, long, tremulous, heart-rending, piteous. |
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| All too often we have watched as Declan Kidney brought his players together in a huddle after a heart-rending defeat. |
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| That was brought home in the debate this evening as we listened to the members from the Standing Committee on Fisheries and Oceans with those heart-rending tales of misfortune by fishers who live in that area. |
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| Life on the Tracks is a humorous and heart-rending film which focuses on family life in a Filipino shanty town built either side of a railway track. |
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| To see the United Nations paralyzed then and not able to do anything, and now to see this whole bad movie starting to circulate again, it is a tremendous, heart-rending anguish that is felt throughout the world community. |
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| Like all my colleagues I have been touched by the heart-rending stories of personal suffering from individuals who have contracted hepatitis C through the blood supply. |
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| Bangladesh has always been one of those poor countries which are regularly in the news, and the disasters which hit that country are always heart-rending. |
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| How can we not hear, from the very depths of this humanity, at once joyful and anguished, a heart-rending cry for help? |
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| Let me share with them, and with all members in the House, a heart-rending story that was shared at a public meeting in Hamilton earlier this spring. |
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| We had workers here telling their stories to members of Parliament, who chose to come, that were heart-rending, that were gripping in their honesty and intensity. |
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| The testimonies themselves are beyond heart-rending, a catalogue of seemingly fathomless cruelty. |
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| For it is heart-rending to think that, of all peoples, it is the impoverished African people who are having to endure this affliction. |
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| Ben Johnson's performance as Alfredo is heroic, transcending his impossible character and delivering his arias with heart-rending plangency. |
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| Laurie Sansom's production hits its emotional straps, and Jones delivers moving scene after scene of rising, fractious, heart-rending drama and flinty, defiant humour. |
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| But even when these songs have heart-rending subject matter, there's usually something uplifting near the surface, delivered without schmaltz or gushing sentimentality. |
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| At fado restaurants, diners are periodically regaled by heart-rending renditions of these woe-stricken ballads, thus allowing a pause for digestion. |
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| The film's entertainment value is suffocated and the lack of individual character development means that the viewer's empathy in these heart-rending scenes is nonexistent. |
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| Laurie Metcalf gave a heart-rending portrayal of a businesswoman suffering from early dementia in The Other Place. |
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| It is an overwhelming and heart-rending truth, one that led to a simple and unfortunately unobserved dictum: Never again. |
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| The slow movement is fraught with heart-rending beauty and an almost improvisational character. |
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| In the past EBU members usually had no more than one channel on which to broadcast the Games and this forced them to make heart-rending choices. |
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| Bogart and Bergman's heart-rending airstrip farewell is enshrined as one of the all-time great endings, and was pastiched to great effect in Woody Allen's Play It Again Sam. |
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| There is always an inclination to present simplistic and heart-rending images. |
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| All the more ironic and heart-rending is the fact that there are massive resources of extraordinary amounts. |
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| Listening to Closer again, it's heart-rending. |
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| Every day I hear heart-rending stories from farmers and others in my constituency about the impact this crisis has had on their families and their businesses. |
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| Regrettably, much of the debate on this issue has taken place on emotional grounds, pitting the hope of curing heart-rending medical conditions against the deeply held moral and ethical convictions of many Canadians. |
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| We know of course that child abduction and the prospect of a subsequent judicial review can lead to tremendously heart-rending conflicts. |
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| Perhaps not one for the overemotional, but this heart-rending drama, based on the book by William Styron, is a must-see movie. |
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| Also particularly heart-rending is the Baroque Procession of Corella, listed as an event of Tourist Interest because it is one of the most typical and original processions in Spain. |
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| Indeed they were recently the subject of a TV documentary by ITV North East, where some of these heart-rending cases were brought to life and were examined for the public of the north-east to see. |
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| And have we not heard heart-rending stories of discrimination against a handicapped child, adolescent or grown-up, ostracised and treated as less-than-fully human? |
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| This is a heart-rending pattern of abuse, but the study explains in as unsentimental way as possible what can be done to stop child trafficking and to protect children who are trafficked. |
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| A heart-rending story which brought more than one person close to tears. |
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