But this reality has changed few minds, perhaps because political considerations outweigh humanitarian instincts until heart-wrenching, televised scenes become domestic prods to international action.

But, unlike scores of heart-wrenching scenes that have played out across the area since Sept. 11, there was nobody dressed in black, no sobs, no wailing.

In the next heart-wrenching scene, Maggie cuddles her baby girl.

They were sitting on a bench not far from a heart-wrenching scene.

The manga was ranked one of the top 10 shōjo manga "with heart-wrenching scenes" in the July 2010 issue of Junon by its readers.

Yet despite any number of potentially heart-wrenching scenes, "The Rich Man's Table" is never particularly moving.

Chuyia is left there sobbing, in one of the most heart-wrenching scenes in the film, but she insists her parents will soon return for her.

Over the next three days, in heart-wrenching scenes of carnage, most of the refugees are killed.

The terrorists would fight as long as there were heart-wrenching scenes of dead children on satellite TV, then would melt away to fight another day.

It was a heart-wrenching scene.