Heartbreaking

It was a heartbreaking story.

It's heartbreaking.

Dan revealed heartbreaking truths.

The refugees' stories are heartbreaking.

It was heartbreaking.

What a heartbreaking story!

It is heartbreaking for our family to accept the likelihood of spending a third Christmas without Mary.

This is an especially heartbreaking day for all our friends -- our fellow Americans -- who are lesbian, gay, bisexual or transgender.

This is really heartbreaking.

How heartbreaking...

Things went well with the clearing on Friday, but by Saturday, February 3, a 70 m.p.h. blizzard set in, and against such heartbreaking conditions, although an effort was made with the plough to keep open the sections cleared on the previous day, ground was gradually lost, [...].

But even with these caveats, it remains a stunning and heartbreaking piece of cinema that strikes a particular chord with LGBTQ+ viewers.

One could argue that Eliot's "great heartbreakings" were the overt physical signs of the inner psychological transformations achieved through brainwashing, cultural attack, and epidemic mortality.