Words similar to heart-rending

Example sentences for: heart-rending

How can you use “heart-rending” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

I think you're a fat, balding guy in his middle 50s who smokes cigars while reading those heart-rending missives from perplexed readers.
A piece investigates Binjamin Wilomirski, author of a heart-rending, highly lauded, and completely fake memoir describing the atrocities he (never) suffered as a Jewish child in Nazi death camps.
Both magazines print huge, heart-rending photographs of Kosovar refugees.