The most heartrending events of "There Are No Children Here" occur when this lively, smiling music boy runs afoul of a policeman in what the author insists is a misunderstanding.

It must be one of the most heartrending sounds in the world.

He found it "the most heartrending scene that I ever witnessed".

As first contacts went, Kirk figured this one probably would end up ranking among the most heartrending such events ever recorded.

Vanessa, at once the most heartrending and exasperating character, secretly gorges on her mother's crab cakes and blintzes, sometimes directly from the freezer.

As Election Day nears, politicians are unspooling their most heartrending and scariest television advertisements.

He was deeply, tenderly sorry for the poor, deformed, fragile girl, doomed to be a witness of that most heartrending of human tragedies, the passing away of her own scarce-hoped-for happiness.

"You had a kind of nailed to the mast smile which was one of the most heartrending things I have ever seen."

It was the most heartrending chorus to hear, as she cried and cried and called out 'Mamma' as the pallbearers lifted the coffin to carry it out.

Perhaps the most heartrending boy within sound of my ridiculous voice is Griffith Hammersmith.