| I felt a resigned smile tug at my lips as I watched him, still not calmed down from the moment we'd shared and fumbling for words. |
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| This plodding, wandering, disconnected story pulls out every melodramatic stop to tug at your heartstrings. |
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| Why can't a boy tug at America's heartstrings without facing petty locker-room humiliation from the viewing public? |
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| As a tear-jerker, the film could tug at the ducts a little less fervently and still maintain its desired effect. |
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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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| She could feel the words inside of her, leaping to get out like wolfhounds tug at their leashes when they smell prey. |
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| In story after story in the gospels, humility and lowliness before the Lord seem to tug at his heart, opening his love and mercy. |
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| They unabashedly explain the techniques they use to tug at viewers' heartstrings. |
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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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| 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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| 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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| It certainly shouldn't tug at the heartstrings, satisfy the mind and thrill visually all at the same time. |
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| Be sure to partner with charities that tug at your personal heart strings as your commitment to these organizations will be stronger. |
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| Tailoring dessert to tug at your family's heartstrings will really put you on a pedestal. |
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| The effort is not all a loss, though, as successive pieces forge a springily malleable array of wiry patchworks that tug at and tease expectations. |
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| A package entails the risk that if you tug at one string of the package, the whole thing may fall apart. |
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| The words they use are not as technical as the ones we use: they tug at your heartstrings. |
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| Be wary of appeals that tug at your heart strings, especially pleas involving patriotism and current events. |
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| Flowers, leaves, stamens, buds etc. typically pop right off-just give them a little tug at the joint. |
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| For some the new energies are difficult to accept, as they tug at their hearts seeking a response that they are not yet prepared for. |
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| But home starts to tug at her heartstrings and what she thought she wanted may not be what she wanted at all. |
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| Mrs Barnes gave a tug at the lead that was wrapped around her wrist and the sleeping terrier at the other end of it woke with a start and gave her a baleful look. |
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| Ned felt something tug at his heartstrings, sympathy overwhelming him. |
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| Say what you will, though, he never tried to tug at our heartstrings by making Marlowe an orphan. |
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| With a certain tug at my heart strings, I learned that the second bill on which I had collaborated had just been placed in the hands of our Members of Parliament and Senators. |
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| Typical operation was to tightly bind three or four boats together in a long row with the electric tug at the head. |
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| On the hot days, he would lie in the shade of a mango and let little Eugenia clamber over his belly and tug at his beard. |
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| Turkeys should be provided with perches placed at a height where birds on the ground are not able easily to peck and tug at the feathers of perching birds. |
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| We are discovering, to use the words of the ecologist John Muir, that when we tug at a single thing in nature, we find it attached to the rest of the world. |
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| Criminals know that December is traditionally a time when people donate to charities and they use this opportunity to tug at our hear strings and rake in the cash. |
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| Fighting everything from asthma to brain infections these inspirational film-makers like Sam won't so much tug at your heartstrings but strangle you with them. |
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