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单词 tug at the heartstrings
释义

tug at the heartstrings

to cause someone to feel a great deal of pity or sadness for someone or something
Miss Cookson knows exactly how to tug at readers' heartstrings.

Examples of 'tug at the heartstrings' in a sentence
tug at the heartstrings

With no dialogue, all three tug at the heartstrings with just their expressions.
The Sun (2013)
It's a fairly naked attempt to tug at the heartstrings.
Times, Sunday Times (2018)
It's guaranteed to tug at the heartstrings and get pulses racing.
The Sun (2014)
No need to tug at the heartstrings.
Times, Sunday Times (2009)
As you can imagine, the details tug at the heartstrings.
Times, Sunday Times (2013)
Contrived storylines and emotional music to tug at the heartstrings: not impressed.
Times, Sunday Times (2017)
At their best, they tug at the heartstrings, forming breathtaking carpets of nodding violet-blue flowers resplendent in the dappled light of woodland and copse.
Times, Sunday Times (2015)
The series that never fails to tug at the heartstrings returns with a tale that near wrenches it from your chest.
The Sun (2011)
He has enhanced and stretched his performance, with feeling in every fabulous arabesque and solos so poetically phrased that they tug at the heartstrings.
Times, Sunday Times (2011)
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