It was, he said, a wrenching moment.

It's one of many wrenching moments in what the critics are acclaiming as a major Shakespearean performance.

Only now, in the final wrenching moment of accepting his loss, did she realize that she had never in all these years stopped loving him.

"Have a good laugh at this," he says at one of the tale's most wrenching moments.

Afterward Odrade was a long time understanding the significance of that wrenching moment.

It was a wrenching moment for Mr. Milken, whose life and business have been changed by the investigation in both radical and subtle ways.

For all its rock 'n' roll thunder, the production's most wrenching moment is so quiet that it almost passes unnoticed.

Even though that was such a wrenching moment for our nation, I look back on it now with a certain longing and nostalgia.

It says volumes about the evening's shortfall that Mr. Hirsch's two most wrenching moments find him with his back to the audience.

His fighter nearly stalled, dropping away like a stone for a heart- wrenching moment before stabilizing.