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Example sentences for: heartbreaking

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And, all the while, Yuri Bashmet goes threading his way across the foreground, a lonely man with an eerie and haunting sound, sometimes quietly shrieking, sometimes singing lyrically--a heartbreaking figure, heartbreakingly courageous--until, by the end, he seems to be quietly sobbing.
--the tension between how he regards himself and how the world regards him is heartbreaking.
Good, not great, reviews for the final novel in the trilogy that began with The Last Picture Show and continued with Texasville . Critics say that although this is not on a par with McMurtry's finest work, "every page is as welcome as a letter from home" (Kyle Smith, People ). Others think the extended musing on the depression of 62-year-old oilman Duane Moore focuses so much on his malaise as to become boring, but most agree with Malcolm Jones of Newsweek : "both heartbreaking and hilarious, sometimes on the same page."
A rather heartbreaking section argues that similar greed-based zoning has endangered the lives of firefighters.
Newsweek 's Katrine Ames is the opera's most passionate advocate, calling the score "rich with color, by turns lush, frantic, heartbreaking, even funny."