No random babble, it had been a heartfelt cry of desperate faith, of yearning.

Roger's heartfelt cry of "Poor old Dan!"

It was a heartfelt cry.

The focus of what could be seen as a heartfelt cry for commercial sanity to be restored to the sport centred upon one simple but now all-consuming issue - money!

In contrast, Maria Vivo, as the heroine, let each firm blow of her heels echo like a heartfelt cry for freedom.

My lips formed the shape of that heartfelt cry: Fah-Ke-Cabochon-rez!

Father Vidicon paused in midstride, hearing the laughter, but also hearing the heartfelt cry, fighting despair, unworded beneath.

But Ms. Hoffberger said folk art arises out of an established tradition, while visionary art is one person's heartfelt cry to the world.

Behind his high-sounding talk of quantum mechanics and global conspiracies, there lies a more familiar and heartfelt cry: "If only people knew what was really going on, they'd do something about it!"

In the end, there can only be a dread silence, a silence that itself is a heartfelt cry to God.