Example sentences for: heartbreakingly

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

  • In the New York Times Book Review , Susan Cheever says "the book brilliantly, heartbreakingly" lays out Harrison's helplessness.

  • 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."

  • 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.

  • Before you know it, she's roiling with doubt and heartbreakingly vulnerable, and this slick thriller romance becomes more than an ultracivilized game.


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