heartrending

It’s a heartrending, nervous-laughter scene: Are they sincere without being desperate?

The rubble of the struck set for the Baxter home in that movie, a fully laid-out, purpose-built filming environment, is particularly heartrending: through Lanthimos’ still lens, it looks like it was hit by a tornado.

Pensive, melodic, uplifting, and heartrending – it's his best album yet.

She delicately balances steeliness and vulnerability to deliver a heartrending performance.

In what is one of the most heartrending scenes in the franchise, two Ewoks are struck by an explosion as they’re scurrying for shelter.