单词 | heart-wringing |
释义 | > as lemmasheart-wringing heart-wringing adj. and n. ΚΠ 1723 A. Philips Humfrey, Duke of Gloucester v. iii. 67 See the widow'd Dutchess!—The Picture of Heart-wringing Anguish! 1805 Med. & Physical Jrnl. 13 34 Smoking..not unfrequently in some produces a complaint in the stomach which they denominate heart-wringing. 1820 S. T. Coleridge Coll. Lett. (1971) V. 84 I have this moment received your heart-wringing intelligence. 1872 W. Black Strange Adventures Phaeton xxiii. 327 What bitterness and grievous heart-wringing. 1993 New Yorker 18 Oct. 39 Griffith sequences like this go beyond heart-wringing into some areas of theatrical sublimity. 2008 Cultural Stud. Rev. 14 109 More heart-wringing are the families who have lost everything and are traveling to one relative in Canada. < as lemmas |
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