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- adverb In a
wrenching manner; with a suddenjerk oremotional shock .
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Examples
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The result is a horror story, during which your frustration level is likely to grow exponentially, coupled to the kind of wrenchingly sad experience that comes from seeing a surprisingly beautiful young girl turn into an overweight, drooling, sedated ...
GreenCine Daily 2009
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The result is a horror story, during which your frustration level is likely to grow exponentially, coupled to the kind of wrenchingly sad experience that comes from seeing a surprisingly beautiful young girl turn into an overweight, drooling, sedated ...
GreenCine Daily 2009
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Doveman is Thomas Bartlett, who doubles as a wrenchingly delicate singer-songwriter and a crack studio musician for the downtown art-music set.
From Ska to Soul, a Flavor for Every Tastemaker Andy Battaglia 2011
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It was really fun until you got wrenchingly sick of stuffing your mouth full of Tootsie Rolls.
Mattel’s Tastitoy Tootsweet Candy Whistle Maker - The Retroist 2010
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Through it all—the free-form conversations, the brilliant set pieces, the preposterous gross-outs, the flawless performances—Kristen Wiig's forlorn maid of honor, Annie, seeks her own destiny with a wrenchingly cockeyed passion.
'Bridesmaids' Catches the Bouquet Joe Morgenstern 2011
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Needless to say, there are other ways to play jazz, and I would never have looked to the George Shearing Quintet to supply me with a wrenchingly emotional experience, any more than I'd put on a record of Haydn's "Surprise" Symphony in order to have a good cry.
Both Good and Popular Terry Teachout 2011
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As a result, this time of year is actually heart wrenchingly conflicting for me.
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Elephants are broken for training in an unspeakably, heart-wrenchingly cruel way.
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"It was gut wrenchingly good, " he said of their poems.
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No one has suggested that Édouard Manet was anything other than indifferent to religion, yet his "Jesus Mocked by the Soldiers" 1865, which hangs in the Art Institute of Chicago, is one of the most wrenchingly powerful pieces of Christian iconography ever produced by a painter.
How Can Skeptics Make Convincing Religious Art? Terry Teachout 2012
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