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heart-breakingly

adv. In a heart-breaking manner.

Usage examples of "heart-breakingly".

The work of clearing the site of Atlantica was heart-breakingly slow, even with the German submarine bulldozer shifting mud by the scores of tons.

The fetters sensed through his mastery had been fashioned for wrists that were heart-breakingly small.

Chloe asked again, stepping gingerly between a pile of leather-bound tomes and a heart-breakingly rusted shield, peering deeper into the shadowy corners of the chamber.

In their normalcy of appearance and unambiguousness of function they were almost heart-breakingly familiar.