heartrending

The rubble of the struck set for the Baxter home in that movie, a fully laid-out, purpose-built filming environment, is particularly heartrending: through Lanthimos’ still lens, it looks like it was hit by a tornado.

Pensive, melodic, uplifting, and heartrending – it's his best album yet.

She delicately balances steeliness and vulnerability to deliver a heartrending performance.

In what is one of the most heartrending scenes in the franchise, two Ewoks are struck by an explosion as they’re scurrying for shelter.

The movie heartrendingly chronicles the downward spiral of Fleck, a socially awkward, impoverished man who lives with his abusive mother.