tear-jerking
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She also paid tribute to her late grandfather, the catalyst of her dreams, in the tear-jerking elegy “Querido Abuelo.”
From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 14, 2024
"Some of the messages on them are quite tear-jerking actually. There's some where somebody has lost their child very young, there's one that's a stillborn child, so it's quite emotional."
From BBC • Aug. 4, 2024
In one particularly tear-jerking moment of the book, Devine recounts a rough day when a child and off-leash puppy charged at Bunny.
From Seattle Times • Dec. 1, 2023
Last fall, Kevin Puts’s score for “The Hours,” based on the novel and film, was relentlessly, exhaustingly tear-jerking.
From New York Times • Jun. 8, 2023
The local newspapers got a hold of the tear-jerking story.
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