Definition of "heart-rendingly" []

• In a heart-rending manner. (adverb)

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• "Steve Buckhantz, improbably, heart-rendingly, declined to anoint this shot with any daggers."
• "Some of the juxtapositions are utterly affecting: a Louise Bourgeois Cell assemblage, a monument to long-ago loneliness, set against Time Passes, a heart-rendingly sensitive multiple-drawing installation by Emma Talbot."
• "Even all smudged with soot, he was still heart-rendingly beautiful."