Sentences with phrase «often heartbreaking»

While the stories that families bring to us are often heartbreaking, we know that by taking a stand, their efforts help ensure that dangerous doctors will be held accountable, and children's futures will be protected.

As Linda Norden writes in Parkett # 62: «The «Bumstead» paintings — whether detailing scenes of domestic misunderstanding, zooming in on off - camera moments of bafflement or simply scanning empty halls and walls for private memories — are excruciatingly specific representations of the gulfs between feeling and comprehension... smart, funny, startling, irreverently empathetic, and often heartbreaking, they are a welcome antidote to more laborious discourse.»

We want this to be a fun page since so much about animal rescue is very serious & often heartbreaking.

Lily's treatment in Halifax was no exception — it was long, intensive, and often heartbreaking for her owners.

Our society has given to them a difficult and often heartbreaking task.

We can help a new puppy get acclimated to your home, and we can solve the frustrating and often heartbreaking problem of separation anxiety.

Still, arranging appropriate care when being deployment is a critical, yet often heartbreaking task.

As well, my concern as a professionally published author is that aggressive marketing (TV commercials, Youtube trailers, fancy websites etc.) are creating a successful viral marketing paradigm for self - pubbed fiction that has the potential to impact trad publishing & leave writers wondering «why bother with the arduous and often heartbreaking process of queries, rejection slips, the endless waiting, etc. when the neighbor simply threw up a website, hired a gang of marketing professionals and bingo, Neil Gaiman is reviewing their book before it's even published?!»

Hà's story touches upon many themes that I like to keep an open dialogue about with my children, among them: the often heartbreaking and perilous lives and background stories of immigrants and refugees, and the effects of bullying.

A magnificent saga... Powers's sylvan tour de force is alive with gorgeous descriptions; continually surprising, often heartbreaking characters; complex suspense; unflinching scrutiny of pain; celebration of creativity and connection; and informed and expressive awe over the planet's life force and its countless and miraculous manifestations... profound and symphonic.»

«Too often the heartbreaking reality is that a good teacher with a decade of classroom experience is hard - pressed to raise a family on a teacher's salary,» said Duncan.

He makes Halliday, who is essentially a sci - fi Willie Wonka, into a charming, often heartbreaking, unintentional loner.

Writer / director Sebastian Lelio's drama is ultimately not just about tolerance — plenty of the supporting characters «tolerate» Marina while simultaneously having no idea what to make of her deep down — but about true love and acceptance of our fellow humans, all of whom have their own unique, often heartbreaking stories.

Beautiful, funny, and often heartbreaking.

Often heartbreaking, Rich Hill presents real life as few filmgoers know it.

It casts an increasingly hypnotic spell, thanks in no small measure to Wright — a fearless actress (and the real - life wife of writer - director Ruscio) who brings this sometimes despicable, often heartbreaking character to life with every atom of her being.

It's often heartbreaking and periodically frightening.

Taking care of a loved one who is ill is difficult, time - consuming, and often heartbreaking labor.

It takes time, money, effort, and usually a lot of disappointment and often heartbreak, especially when things go wrong and they often do.

Not exact matches

It's important to be aware of potential workplace heartbreak that can be and often is caused by unthinking managers.

Jesus can be our shield against the shame storm that so often erupts in the wake of heartbreak.

But often, marriage counseling is painful as couples are unable to keep the marriage together, and I am witness to the heartbreak of a divorce and the tragic wake of destruction it leaves in their lives and the lives of their families.

«Sperm - donors» children are banding together to try to ban anonymous sperm donation in hopes of saving future generations from the frustrating search that all too often ends in heartbreak,» reports the Associated Press.

though it is quite heartbreaking I can't try them as is, I live in Pakistan where you can't source things like sweet white sorghum flour, even coconut flour is hard to come by and often costs an arm and a leg as these things are imported and very limited in stick.

They earn invitations to come to Massachusetts and give Heartbreak Hill a go, running through official charities and often pledging a ton of money to good causes to earn their spot in the field.

And I wondered — did my experience with the often excruciatingly painful reality of heartbreak influence how I moved forward in love and -LSB-...]

I can not even begin to guess how often I've heard variations of the same heartbreaking story.

And I wondered — did my experience with the often excruciatingly painful reality of heartbreak influence how I moved forward in love and life?

It's heartbreaking to think that after giving all she has all day long, a mom's rare and valuable respite is often plagued with shame and guilt instead of sweet rest and peace.

Many states are considering or tightening restrictions on midwives and home births, including Idaho, North Carolina, South Carolina, and Indiana, often in response to heartbreaking and infuriating cases of women or infants dying due to incompetent treatment.

As Deidre and I spoke about her heartbreaking situation, she related that her ex's father often abandoned the family for years at a time.

A how - to guide for dealing with heartbreak, for those of us who understand that breakups often lead to breakthroughs.

So why does heartbreak happen so often over the holidays?

But one former City worker has used her heartbreak to become a top romance blogger — and is now launching one of the country's first dating awards to help others through the often treacherous world of online dating.

like you said it often leads to heartbreak (which would be on my side).

While real and lasting liaisons do occasionally form through the site, more often it only serves to increase the concentric circles of mistrust, disappointment and heartbreak for all involved.

Often the love you have with the person you've invested the time with is worth saving and will be worth its weight in gold, compared to the heartbreak you might be creating.

By focusing on the specific (and frequently heartbreaking) stories of the aforementioned parents, former Congresswoman and gun - violence survivor Gabrielle Giffords, and Moms Demand Action founder Shannon Watts — who was motivated to action by Newtown and unwittingly sparked a grassroots movement on Facebook — the film lays out the gaping holes in the system where regulations are needed, and offers hopeful examples of activism in the face of what often feels like an insurmountable problem.

But the lush, presentational compositions often bluntly telegraph the characters» heartbreaks.

There's a sense with Infinity War that the studio has begun to finally understand and embrace their own material, indulging both the light and the dark, the weird and the normal, which has enabled their comic books to succeed for 79 years — Infinity War is the bold, brash, often hilarious, sometimes heartbreaking result of a decade - long undertaking.

Scenes are often hilarious and heartbreaking, like when Marlo defeatedly removes her tattered blouse at the kitchen table, soiled by spilled milk, and her children stare at her bulging gut in horror and beg, «Mommy, what's wrong with your... body?»

I'm a longtime fan of writer / director Martin McDonagh because his movies often feel «written» in the best possible way, with a wonderful mixture of flawed characters, heartbreaking loss, and laugh out loud comedy.

But for all the heartbreak that pumps through it, Kenneth Lonergan's ambitious third feature isn't some miserable slog: Anchored by a career - best performance from Affleck, who achieves the herculean feat of making emotional unavailability compelling, Manchester By The Sea is often as flat - out funny as it is wrenching.

Kathryn Bigelow «s powerful, often - heartbreaking historical drama Detroit is all of these things and more.

The film, told almost entirely through song and a beautiful pop music score, portrays an honest, heartbreaking, often funny, exploration of love and its consequences on individual identity.

Though their 2014 film, about a woman (Marion Cotillard) trying to save herself from imminent redundancy, is cut from the same careworn cloth as previous features, it's another undeniably sublime and heartbreaking work about saintly self preservation, the struggles of working class life and the fact that it's often the smallest stories which deal with the biggest and most important ideas.

Apart from Fanning's incredible childlike vulnerability, which is often just heartbreaking, Alessandro Nivola's performance is also something to deeply admire.

Stephanie Di Giusto's drama «The Dancer» remedies that by telling the story of Fuller's complex, fascinating and often - heartbreaking life and career.

The Farrellys don't work all that often; Hall Pass is their first feature since the 2007 Ben Stiller flop The Heartbreak Kid.

There's genuine tragedy, heartbreaking confrontations, and sharp humor, often side - by - side in the same scene, and yet it all feels perfectly balanced.