heartache
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A greatest hits of humanity’s current fears forms the backdrop to a complex, woozy tale—mostly realist, with brief incursions into phantasmagoria—of doomerism and heartache, wealth and greed, art, transcendence and spiritual reckoning.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 9, 2026
Australian rescue expert Arnold Dix, who has been supporting the operation remotely, told AFP that the rescue efforts were "back in miracle country" after a "week of 24/7 heartache".
From Barron's ● Sep. 4, 2026
Foster told the court: "The heartache that we have gone through is immense."
From BBC ● Jul. 28, 2026
For years, I would come home from figure-skating practice bruised from falling, exhausted from trying not to fall and tender from the ambient heartache of being a teenager.
From Salon ● Jul. 28, 2026
There were men and women, children and elderly, of all colors and ethnicities, whispering in a dozen languages stories of heartache and spite, a perfect ghostly mirror to the living of the city.
From "Ophie's Ghosts" by Justina Ireland
Readers uninvested in Mr. Fukuyama’s crusade to vindicate himself—and to put naysayers in their place—will wish he’d spent more time on the details and heartaches of Japanese-American life in the years surrounding the war.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 8, 2026
Rather, Pelphrey’s delivery of that line – the entire dialogue he shares with Ruffalo’s scuffy agent, truly – is one of the saddest moments in a story that lives in its heartaches.
From Salon ● Oct. 6, 2025
McIlroy's win is both the most significant achievement of his 18-year professional career and the culmination of a journey that has forced him to rebound from a series of major championship heartaches.
From BBC ● Apr. 13, 2025
“It tells me that all the time, effort, heartaches, soccer trainings, tournaments, bad and good days were totally worth it.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 28, 2023
That she could have lived quietly and saved everyone the heartaches that would come.
From "Everything Sad Is Untrue" by Daniel Nayeri
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