heartbreaking
adj 1noun 1
Definitions
adj
1
That causes great grief, anguish or distress.
Near-synonyms: heartrending, heartwrenching
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, [...].
noun
1
The breaking of a heart; great grief, anguish or distress.
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.
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