heartrendingly

He heard light footsteps in the distance that were heartrendingly familiar.

As they began their slow procession toward us, suddenly, heartrendingly, Martin got his wish.

I'm never sure whether those lines are cruel or a heartrendingly honest statement of resignation.

His expression was as heartrendingly somber as the dark suit he wore.

The sea was heartrendingly beautiful, the deepest blue they had ever seen, as it came rolling up against the crescent of the beach.

She laughed again, high and wild, heartrendingly pure.

The voice was heartrendingly familiar, unaged, just as I remembered it.

When she looked up, the man that she saw riding purposely towards them was heartrendingly familiar.

A voice, heartrendingly familiar, came from behind Leland.

In the simulated daylight, it was now heartrendingly empty; the crew had taken their captain's warning seriously.

Her skin was heartbreakingly pale in the dance of candlelight, her lips heartrendingly still.

Hanna faded into smoke, with a heartrendingly despairing wail.

She drew a sharp breath as she stared at the powerful man before her, so beautifully, heartrendingly masculine.

That question becomes heartrendingly appropriate when Seymour witnesses a murder and first runs for his life and then wants revenge against the killer.

Heartrendingly painful, but not unexpected.

How heartrendingly she had sobbed!

And heartrendingly beautiful.

Away in the distance a couple of wolves were howling heartrendingly, but otherwise there was nothing but the frozen silence of the winter's night.

"It's my daddy," Lana bawled heartrendingly.

I have to groan heartrendingly in one of them, and it's really hard to get up a good artistic groan, Marilla.

In that eternal moment, the Vulcan pretense of sequestering emotion seemed both ceaselessly naive, and heartrendingly unattainable.

A compromise; Silk thought of Maytera Mint, small and heartrendingly brave upon a white stallion in Sun Street.

Other characters, like Holly, are garden-variety New York neurotics on paper, but in Ms. Wiest's hands their vulnerability becomes heartrendingly memorable.

She could laugh like a jolly drunken coach-driver; she could weep heartrendingly when it seemed expedient; and she could swear like a highwayman.

From his com link, Vorpatril's volume-reduced voice pleaded heartrendingly for the Imperial Auditor to please reopen his outgoing voice contact.