Example sentences for: heartbreakingly

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

  • 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.

  • And partly it comes from Pacino, whose epic self-absorption, in this context, makes Lefty seem heartbreakingly vulnerable, even while he's blowing people's heads off.

  • Lucky audiences who caught Superstar: The Karen Carpenter Story (it was shelved when Richard Carpenter served the producers with an order to cease and desist exhibition) began by laughing at this elaborately posed, soft-rock femme, only to discover by the climax that the cultural forces that were eating at her (and that kept her from eating) had grown heartbreakingly palpable.

  • Trying to fit in with the "cool" kids, she seems heartbreakingly defenseless.

  • Washington Square is said to compare favorably with last winter's revisionist Portrait of a Lady , since it "respects James' complexities and bitter ironies" (David Ansen, Newsweek ). Critics also praise its "brusque, energetic pace" (Janet Maslin, the New York Times ) and Leigh's "heartbreakingly good" performance ( People ). The New Republic 's Stanley Kauffmann dissents, calling the film "ill at ease, uncomfortable, straining for effect."


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