heart-rending

One of the most heart-rending moments of series four was when it was revealed that Watts's mum had died of cancer when he was just a child.

A pivot comes midway, opening final rooms of colorful acrylic portraits, with four heart-rending drawings of Isherwood’s last weeks of life.

I’ll lean toward four docs that the Directors Guild nominated — “Daughters,” “Porcelain War,” “Soundtrack to a Coup d’Etat” and “Sugarcane” — and then add my favorite, the heart-rending “No Other Land,” a look at the devastating costs of displacement in the southern West Bank.

"We have some heart-rending stories from families of people with disabilities, who feel that when they don't have cash accepted, it is robbing them of their self-esteem," he said.

Since the early 1990s, Gilmour’s frequent lyrical collaborator has been wife Polly Sampson, whose sensitivity and topicality often reveals a heart-rending reality that’s never heavy-handed.