The wind didn't tug at the trees and shake them.
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The delight on his face will tug at your heartstrings.
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This Is Us certainly knows how to tug at our heartstrings.
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So we're left with — what — Chewie to tug at our heartstrings?
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So why does that tug at our heart strings so much?
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What is it about television couples that tug at our heartstrings?
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A history that will tug at our heartstrings, like Luke Pell?
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" The words tug at a thread that shoots through "Later Essays.
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I love to watch the giant silver spoon tug at the custard.
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This one about Henry the Blue Jay will tug at your heartstrings.
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Something, somewhere in this on-screen jubilee will tug at your heartstrings.
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Not showing the same sprightly bounce when you tug at the ends?
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Tug at the steering wheel paddle shifters and simulated gearshifts are convincing.
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And what she has to say will tug at your heartstrings a little.
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Sasha's hopelessness, depression, and desperation jump off the screen to tug at your heart.
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Warning: grab your tissue boxes people because this video will tug at your heartstrings.
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Her patriotic messaging could tug at the nationalistic heartstrings Mr Trump strummed in 2016.
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With dry cupping, therapists use cups that tug at, but don't break, the skin.
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Finally, tug at the hair, loosening the twists to make them look messy and undone.
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In a candid moment, Harry let a 4-year-old tug at his red beard.
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So you tug at the thread just a little and a few strands come loose.
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Ms. Knight Pulliam was there purely as herself but also to tug at our memory.
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After all, some sceneries are beautiful because they tug at human emotions, something that machines lack.
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Then, there's the breakage aspect — tight elastics tug at delicate hair and can actually cause damage.
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These types of ads are designed to tug at your heartstrings, and little kids could succumb.
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And for the love of all that is holy, whatever you do, never tug at the hairs.
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I tug at my chin hair waiting for a movie to start and am overcome with nausea.
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A milky white goat and kid are petrified mid-play, destined to tug at each other for eternity.
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Under Zuckerberg's programmatic instruction, Facebook's daily notices are selected for their capacity to emotionally tug at the individual.
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There's a reason movies we often think of as "slow" are the ones that tug at our heartstrings.
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Walk Two Moons' exploration of death and grief will tug at even the most stoic adult's heart strings.
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You can't just tug at your forelock and say, 'Yes, guvnor, where would you like me to stand?
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Lynette put out her hand to tug at his arm and make him turn around, to accuse him.
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She flicked the needles into my flesh, and I could feel their bizarre wobbling gravity tug at the skin.
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Her sisters tug at her arms, pulling her from room to room as they show her their new home.
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" Photos of Theodore and Clarabelle together especially tug at the heartstrings — the two are affectionately called "the happy couple.
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Prince Harry loves a hug — and he's used to kids wanting to stroke or tug at his red beard.
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I tug at the neck of my cotton gown, which chokes no matter how much I loosen the ties.
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This time, the ballad is poignantly covered by country star Keith Urban, whose croaky vocals tug at our very heartstrings.
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Koh's portraits of polar bears tug at the emotional strings while showing off his handle of oil paints to canvas.
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Children will sometimes tug at their diapers, for instance, an early form of communicating that it's time for a change.
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When it's warm to the touch, release and tug at the ends for a few seconds to loosen the curl.
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"I've had 8-year-olds, 6-year-olds tug at my jacket after I talk about these drills," she said.
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What lessons tug at me, force me off the sidewalk, tell me that my personal space is not necessarily mine?
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Millions of inter-page links, chosen by thousands of editors, pull and tug at each other to groups stars together.
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For a while you would yank and tug at them, trying to discern the pattern that would unlock the game's conclusion.
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It was a tug at Mustang lovers' heart strings and a reassurance Ford hasn't abandoned those who hunger for nostalgic cars.
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To me, "Make America Great Again" sounds like the exact type of slogan that would tug at a collective narcissist's heart.
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As a precaution, everyone should inspect (pull and tug at the card slot and keypad) an ATM before inserting any cards.
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Ventimiglia responded in kind, because internet boyfriends know exactly how to tug at fans' heartstrings and avoid conflict with government agencies.
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The greeting card industry has long mastered the art of amplifying holidays to tug at our impulses, whether generous or guilty.
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For 11 months, Americans have watched the President tug at the societal, cultural and racial divisions as a method of governing.
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The concept is pretty astutely designed to tug at the heartstrings, even if it does so in a brazenly manipulative way.
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But should the moon's gravitational pull tug at a fault that is dangerously close to rupture, a temblor is not impossible.
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When babies have an acute ear infection, they tug at their ears, get cranky and struggle to sleep through the night.
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GoFundMe appears to have become synonymous with giving in the wake of catastrophes, crimes and stories that tug at the heartstrings.
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Continuing this emotional paradox across the room, the four figures of "Katabasis" flail and tug at each other with delight or anger.
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And maybe that was the idea all along: to tug at our sense of frustration in between the jokes and the gunfights.
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And no matter how many times you've heard them, they still find a way to tug at your heartstrings on every listen.
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He red-carded Leicester's defender Danny Simpson after halftime for two deliberate, but not harmful infringements, the second a tug at an arm.
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Whether you're a dad yourself or reflecting on your relationship with your own father, Chabon's writing about parenting will tug at your heartstrings.
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Go for soft makeup brushes, and if you can, Dr. Solomon advises working with a damp sponge that won't tug at the skin.
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Kaitlyn: I totally see the dangling threads in Arrival, and in a more pedantic conversation, I think they'd be fun to tug at.
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Written in direct, workmanlike language, their books don't romanticize animal behavior, even as they focus on those aspects that tug at human hearts.
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If this doesn't tug at your heartstrings and make you want to call your own long-distance BFF, then nothing else ever will.
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The sweet and sometimes sad faces of dogs waiting to be adopted is just one of those things that tug at your heart strings.
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It'll tug at your heartstrings and make you giggle, and you'll never think about parenthood — or eat bao — in quite the same way again.
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As a star drains into one black hole, the presence of another supermassive maw nearby would tug at the stream of matter falling in.
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So when a product drops that's meant to tug at your memories of childhood, it will inevitably bring along the bad with the good.
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What's hot: The animation, a story that will tug at your heartstrings, and Schwartzman's performance as the selfish and spoiled son of postman royalty.
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"A lot of stories tug at your heartstrings, but in this case I felt, you could suddenly be this kid's mother," Ms. Syrop said.
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Single, taken or somewhere in between, LANCO's lyric video for "Greatest Love Story," shared exclusively with PEOPLE, is sure to tug at Valentine's-swollen hearts.
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In a tribute that will tug at your heartstrings, Chris Cornell's daughter performed Leonard Cohen's "Hallelujah" on Good Morning America Friday, according to ABC News.
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Don't be fooled by the stripped-back nature of this song; the lyrics pack a punch that will tug at more than a few heartstrings.
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A fan encounter turned into a powerful friendship for a cat litter scientist and Charles Barkley — and their story just might tug at your heartstrings.
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Together, he and Georgie tug at the string, but instead of a kite they reel in Mary Poppins ( Emily Blunt ), the help from heaven. Lo!
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So it makes sense that friends' feedback on social media -- both the positive and the negative -- would tug at you until you satisfy your curiosity.
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But even in the midst of devastating sadness and disbelief, a far less urgent but perennial question can tug at the back of the mind.
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Pretty much everyone knows you shouldn't whistle at servers, or snap your fingers, or tug at the server's sleeve if you want to place an order.
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Arora acknowledges that non-governmental organizations might have gotten caught in an "empathy arms race," turning out experience after experience meant to tug at our heartstrings.
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Recent days have seen so many of the President's ardent backers react with shock to his betrayals that their complaints tug at an empathetic person's heart.
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In another candid moment, Harry let a 4-year-old boy tug at his red beard with the prince playfully grimacing as Meghan stifled a laugh.
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An officer gets out of the passenger-side door and appears to point a gun at the Jeep's driver-side window and tug at the door.
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I think the debate is mostly about the first two issues, with the "post-liberal" flirtations of some conservative intellectuals just a tug at the extreme.
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It's clearly going to be a tough call, and each of the men voice their love for Hannah in separate confessionals that really tug at the heartstrings.
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So darn it, didn't it tug at your heart strings when Murphy and Emori were planning on going it alone, only to see Jackson and Miller return?
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Digging pretty stories about love out of the past may be a postmodern thing to do, but it's also an easy way to tug at the heartstrings.
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Many non-profit organizations that provide medical aid to the developing world have commercials that tug at the heartstrings, but one group is taking a new approach.
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No editor at any publication could ever beat the masses when they're on a mission to tug at your heartstrings, make you laugh or anything in between.
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A number of different hands tug at the ribbon and tug on the book, finally revealing that "Somebody Named Derrick and 1 other" once liked a photo.
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To this day, certain memories still tug at them: how Dr. Strauss's breath smelled as he leaned in to grope them; how strangely long his fingers seemed.
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Tramping along an often solitary path to greatness, one that allows few detours for the innocent pleasures of childhood, these small wonders can tug at the heart.
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There was a tug at the end of my line, the scene began to unfold in slow motion, and something like pure joy started to fill my heart.
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Her displays of manic energy are intercut with bouts of thoughtful contemplation that tug at the heartstrings just enough to raise the stakes on this otherwise frivolous weekend.
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Eight days later, as I sat beside her in her hospice room, watching her tug at her bedsheets and clothes, Richard arrived with an oversized bouquet of flowers.
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We'd be talking about them so much, in fact, it would be impossible to eat, sleep, or screw without feeling them tug at the back of our minds.
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This slowing of circulation will tug at currents around the world, with effects on everything from the Indian monsoon to the pattern of El Niño in the Pacific ocean.
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I'd be pulling them out of my ears while walking down the street to tug at the braided loop to get it back to the length that best fits.
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Because they're not sticky like those pore-removing strips, removing the patches won't tug at the skin — important since that are of your face is so delicate and sensitive.
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It doesn't make the wait any easier when the official Instagram for the revival is posting photos that tug at our heartstrings, and their most recent throwback is no exception.
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The best Super Bowl commercials are shared because they connect to the viewers in a "tug at your heartstrings" or humorous way, and they keep getting shared on social media.
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Photo courtesy of Count Your Lucky Stars Cotopaxi is a musician out of Braddock, PA that plays lo-fi, emotive indie sure to tug at the core of your heart.
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At the morning show, Saraste kept to a fairly strict tempo, limiting Hadelich's ability to tug at Britten's free-floating lines; yet the second movement had an anxious, sweaty force.
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Dustin Theobald was at a Fernandina beach in Florida playing with his son on a surfboard in just 2 feet of water when he felt something tug at his foot.
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In centering his argument on solar panels, Mr. Appelbaum seeks to try tug at environmentalists' heartstrings, when, in fact, preservation has been shown to be far greener than new construction.
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The problem, as with many things about Elizabeth Warren, is that this version of events meant to tug at the heartstrings is not what she was saying back in 2007.
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Google, meanwhile, went directly for the emotional jugular in a spot so blatantly designed to tug at your heartstrings it was immediately uncomfortable to the point where it felt manipulative.
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While the renderings are simplistic and colors are those often found in house paint, these images of heavenly figures in blue robes and stories of miracles tug at your heart.
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Dr. Pimple Popper is a wrestler in her own right: We've watched her yank and tug at the most stubbornly-rooted lipomas, painstakingly cutting away blubbery fat, piece by tiny piece.
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Could it be that when we tug at the corners of our mouths or cover our eyes with our fingers we are tapping into an ancient tendency, shared with other species?
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As conventionally unconvincing as the enterprise has to be, the movie tries to tug at the heartstrings with its suggestion that in these old men Dax has found a new family.
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Other people continually tug at this insistently quiet, intimate movie (you hear birds and human breath alike), unsettling the seclusion that Will, freely or by necessity, has escaped into with Tom.
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In her sculpture of Harriet Tubman, "Swing Low," literal roots to the South — which tug at Tubman's skirt — are a reminder of her 19 journeys to bring the enslaved to freedom.
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Last week Bernie Sanders celebrated cows and bales of hay to the tune of Simon and Garfunkel's "America" in an attempt to tug at Midwest heartstrings, and today Former Arkansas Gov.
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It made the Academy's shortlist for the Short Film (Animated) category, but, alas, its quietly groundbreaking story of young same-sex love apparently didn't tug at enough heartstrings to earn a nod.
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For all its insistence on faith, the film shows a surprising lack of it – it is all rehearsed, clumsily designed to tug at the heartstrings and endear us to its leading man.
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I didn't expect the show to tug at my heartstrings Kimmy's emergent storyline is even more impressive, largely because it's pushing the show to become something more complex than a straightforward comedy.
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Wonder's performance of his classics "Isn't She Lovely" and "My Cherie Amour" — in which he altered the lyrics to "my Michelle amour" — really seemed to tug at the first lady's heart strings.
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"Many times we've seen that when there are issues that really tug at your heartstrings, as it is with people afflicted with cancer, donors are less likely to ask questions," Miniutti said.
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Some may call these representations exploitative of the disabled, an attempt to tug at the heartstrings of viewers without actually benefiting the disability community by way of employment or even accurate representation.
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One tug at the beginning or the end of the sentence seems like it would cause this construction to collapse into a puddle of ink settled at the bottom of the line.
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It's one of the most devastating movie scenes from many of our childhoods, watching Simba nestle into his father's mane, tug at his ear, and try to wake him as the dust settles.
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Based on the 2007 book by André Aciman, it's a tale of sexual awakenings and first loves that will reach inside your chest and slowly tug at your heart until it literally explodes.
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As if baby whales weren't enough to tug at your heart strings, the United States announced last week that most populations of humpback whales are no longer on the U.S. endangered species list.
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Stealthily woven into the fabric is an impressive jokes per minute ratio and storylines that tug at the heart, like that of pansexual hipster David (Daniel Levy) and his boyfriend Patrick (Noah Reid).
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Children often seem to grow up in an instant, and if that's not apparent to a parent, the travel industry tries to make it so with marketing plans that tug at the heartstrings.
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To tug at the viewers' heartstrings a little — or a lot — Lindelof, Perrotta and their credited co-screenwriter, Tom Spezialy, have Nora Durst sharing some sweet childhood memories with her brother, Matt Jamison.
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To get the nation's attention, Bergdahl's family and friends needed to tug at their heartstrings, or to apply enough pressure so that people — even up to President Barack Obama — would take an interest.
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When the first GRACE-FO probe passes above a big area of mass, like a huge underground aquifer, its gravity will tug at the satellite and the distance with the trailing spacecraft will change.
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Breaking a Monster opens in LA this weekend at the Laemmle Monica Film Center, and will both tug at your heartstrings and stir up some righteous anger at the way that major labels operate.
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The 35 new flicks, which are sure to tug at your heartstrings, include names like Christmas at Pemberley Manor, Christmas In Love, Road to Christmas with stars like LeAnn Rimes and Chad Michael Murray.
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For many people the bellwether of the season is the blockbuster Christmas ad from department store John Lewis, which is usually designed to tug at the heartstrings enough for you to open your wallet.
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Whether attempting to tug at heartstrings, tickle a funny bone, deliver a gut punch, or target some other piece of anatomy, there are dos and don'ts to keep in mind when planning your words.
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Even if people self-lubricate in great quantities, the materials that sex toys are made of tend to tug at skin and hair, so a bottle of lube was always recommended with every purchase.
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Jimmy Kimmel's contention this week that a child like his would not receive lifesaving surgery for his congenital heart problem without Obamacare may tug at the heartstrings, but it is neither fair nor accurate.
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The lead single, "Up Jumped Spring," finds them pushing Freddie Hubbard's waltzing jazz standard to an insistent clip: Mr. Smith's pedaled bass and Mr. Kreisberg's taut guitar playing goad and tug at each other.
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Its deployment in Idlib is a "trip wire that will start to tug at the (agreements with Russia) if you try to walk through it," said Aron Lund, a Syria expert with the Century Foundation.
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That's what I'm focusing on — the activism work that comes from the heart, the causes that speak to me, the stories that tug at my heartstrings or seem unfair or un-American in some way.
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Lyra (the bright soprano Jessica E. Jones) and Gertrude (the mezzo-soprano Tamara Mumford, velvety but pressed too low by the score) come together in lush exchanges, but their bond doesn't tug at the heart.
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For one, the volume/track control unit on the right side is heavy enough that it will tug at the nearby earbud unless you clip the 305s to your shirt at the back of your neck.
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Even when Sophia goes to take a nap, Rose hops up into the bed and lays down beside her (a Facebook video of the pair in action, viewed over 12,000 times, will tug at the heartstrings).
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Ahead, Dr. Lee opens up about what fans can expect from each hour-long episode, explaining that the series will not only be oozing and addictive, but it will also tug at our heart strings. Intrigued?
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The Oscars have done this for generations; occasionally throwing black people a bone with yet another historical drama about slavery or some new sensational part of the civil rights movement orchestrated to tug at our heartstrings.
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Escobar's desperate attempts to shield his children from the crisis at hand take on — dare I say — a poignancy that should tug at all parents who shield their kids from the harshness of the real world.
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"Anywhere you tug, at any company or any investment firm or any VC, there is either Saudi money or there's questionable money everywhere, across the system," Recode's Kara Swisher said on the latest episode of Pivot.
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It's the kind of argument designed to tug at our most selfish impulses while ignoring the economic and political transformations that have left a generation of college graduates struggling under an unprecedented mountain of student debt.
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"Not only does he come back strong, but he comes back to try to tug at some emotional piece," said Jack O'Donnell, who worked with as a Trump casino executive but later had a falling out.
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Jacob Reynolds, the boy America grew to love after watching Gummo, plays Wheeler's nephew, who is nominally a liaison to the owner but mostly watches Kevin Costner tug at his own belly and put on his uniform.
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Johnson launched Wesearchr after he was booted from Twitter for soliciting funds to "take out" Black Lives Matter activist DeRay McKesson, but it seems the standard doxxing bounties just don't tug at vicious reactionaries' sense of charity.
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It seems like the Shepard family is a little secretive but if we know anything about Grey's at this point it's that the show knows how to tug at your heartstrings and secrets never stay secret forever.
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There are tips in bold for, say, removing the stamens from plantain flowers (tug at them with the blunt edge of knife) and choosing the most pickle-worthy okra (look for tails that break with a snap).
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A cardboard strip with a tiny explosive charge on it runs along the inside of the cracker, so when two people tug at either end, a "crack" sound is heard, and the cracker breaks into two pieces.
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Yes, migrant families will tug at your heart strings and makes you feel sad and you want to find a solution, but it&aposs not going to be a driving issue for regular voters in the midterm elections.
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One day, during art class, the girl felt a little tug at the end of her ponytail, and looked around to see that Vic had used his art scissors to snip off a piece of her dark hair.
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Wine Folly, however, with its handsome charts and color wheels, its cross-references and links to expanded information, seems to tug at the pages, desperate not to be contained in something you think of as reading front-to-back.
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I often thought of my research as similar to unraveling a sweater — I'd tug at one thread, and a whole sleeve would come undone — one interviewee would introduce me to another, who'd introduce me to another, and so on.
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The first console and PC project from Brighton-based indie studio PaperSeven, Blackwood Crossing is a narrative adventure in which the player must solve (mostly) simple puzzles in order to progress a story tailored to tug at the heartstrings.
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Religion can act just as a curious repository of aesthetics and symbols we can draw upon for our own purposes — think of how politicians and their surrogates so easily swipe biblical phrases to tug at our consciences, for instance.
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Even in moments when there's no one in sight, as Sam lugs cargo across vast distances, the game can tug at the heartstrings with its impeccably timed music, which mostly consists of songs from the post-rock band LOW ROAR.
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These provisions complicate the matter of repeal and replace, because they all have constituencies that will show up for a lobbying battle in Washington — and their stories could tug at the heartstrings of voters who otherwise support the repeal effort.
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But while the idea of deadly dog flu spreading like wildfire through our nation's kennels and shelters, as recent headlines suggest, might tug at our heartstrings, it probably isn't as bad as some media outlets are making it out to be.
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But the Oasis' design is clearly meant to tug at the gadget lover in all of us, and it will surely win over consumers who can part with a couple hundred bucks so they can take advantage of the Oasis' perks.
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It doesn't take anywhere near that many people speaking in front of news cameras and on YouTube to tug at America's heart strings and spell doom for every GOP member of Congress who doesn't guarantee their coverage come election time.
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Chang and Cheung realized that if just a fraction of the estimated 453 million dog owners in the U.S. felt that same tug at their heartstrings upon leaving their pets, building a product to solve the problem could spell success.
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Her piece "Rosas Danst Rosas," from 1983, is a portrait of pent-up frustration: four young women in gray gym clothes, sitting on wooden chairs, slump over theatrically, whip back their hair, and tug at their sleeves, exposing their shoulders.
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And when she confronts her coaster-freak mother (Lisa Kudrow) in Florida in an attempt to earn some closure in the season finale, it feels like a hard-earned moment of resolution from a show I didn't expect to tug at my heartstrings.
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Two years on and Sydney production company Shifted Pictures, purveyors of beautiful timelapse videography, has used its artistic talents to tug at our heart strings and to accentuate just how the once vibrant landscape of Sydney's nightlife is as dead as a doornail.
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Every February, we're inundated with lists of "the best love songs," but if we're being honest, those aren't the tracks that tug at your emotions the most; it's the random songs that spoke to you two in your secret language that resonate the loudest.
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But the works on view here, which tug at our awareness of texture, material, and dimension, take stock of their surroundings, and in asking visitors to do the same, temporarily transform LMAKGallery into an "immersive environment" that seems to be hiding in plain sight.
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Carrie (Claire Danes) and Quinn (Rupert Friend) narrowly survive the attack, and after making sure one another is okay, they immediately start checking the pulse of each body left strewn about the front lawn, a powerfully poignant scene which will tug at every viewers' heartstrings.
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Sure, "the captain's drunk your world is Titanic floating on the funk" may not be lyrics that tug at your heartstrings, or make you feel any emotion at all other than a bit sick, but does that make "My Generation" any less of a rager?
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Nintendo has a strong history of being something everyone in the family could enjoy, and even something as simple as using cartridges could tug at the nostalgia centers of the brains of parents who grew up playing NES with their own elders and siblings.
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The poet Anne Sexton asked us to "Consider Icarus, pasting those sticky wings on, / testing that strange little tug at his shoulder blade, / and think of that first flawless moment …" Our knowledge of later moments, Ms. Sexton suggests, shouldn't detract from a fine beginning.
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And while there are lines of dialogue and performances that tug at the heartstrings -- the death of a parent, or a parent's desire to help and protect a child, offer strong hooks -- it's presented with so little subtlety the net effect is more annoying than uplifting.
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The former Trump aide told the Hill in a subsequent interview that, while he wouldn't vote for the Republican candidate, he believes it's a smart tactic for Roy Moore to use the issue to tug at the heartstrings of Republicans debating staying home or even voting for the Democrat.
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Had I held more dough, I would have known to cup my hands around it, to rub my thumbs against the surface, heft the ball, sink my fingers into it, tug at it to discover if it stretched, if it sprang back, if it was airy or tight.
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There are moments that should tug at your heartstrings, like when Chris dumps his mother's body into the water with pain masked as petulance, but those of us who are viewers of that other show must remember young Carl Grimes putting a bullet in his mother's head and marching on resolutely.
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Work as fast as you can but as slow as necessary: When executives try to lead a horse with a rope to walk alongside them, Golliher encourages them to "lead with feel" -- that is, don't just start walking away until the horse feels the tug at the end of the rope.
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Later reports from The Daily Beast and The Washington Post found that at least some of the roughly 3,000 advertisements purchased by the group were designed to affect political opinion and tug at social fault lines in the U.S. Some ads suggested that Black Lives Matter was a political threat.
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It was hard to watch when Milo Ventimiglia's Jack and Mandy Moore's Rebecca had that no-holes-barred fight during the Season 1 finale of This Is Us. The rawness and the intimacy of the scene that seemed to go on forever didn't just tug at viewer's heartstrings, it ripped and tore at them.
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Why, he wonders, do so many African-Americans sympathize with immigrants who are stealing low-wage jobs from "low-skilled natives," and why do the leaders of organizations like the N.A.A.C.P. "tug at their forelock" and docilely support filibuster reform and other "overclass issues that have little to do with African-Americans as a group"?
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So I think everyone at dinner was horrified and embarrassed, and at the same time, the money was not being returned, and they were making the point that anywhere you tug, at any company or any investment firm or any VC, there is either Saudi money or there's questionable money everywhere, across the system.
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What is one to think of the clothes the twenty-nine-year-old pianist Yuja Wang wears when she performs—extremely short and tight dresses that ride up as she plays, so that she has to tug at them when she has a free hand, or clinging backless gowns that give an impression of near-nakedness (accompanied in all cases by four-inch-high stiletto heels)?
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As we yank and tug at arteries clotted with blood and stringy nerves, as we cringe at oozing clumps of fat that splash everywhere when we flip the body to dissect the back, as we reduce a human being to the minutiae of their parts, there is a sense of obligation — not just to be respectful of the body and to dedicate ourselves to learning the material, but to recognize that medicine is built on sacrifice.
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A co-production between the National Theater of Scotland, which Ms. Featherstone used to run, and Newcastle's Live Theater in the north of England, the evening ricochets between a roisterous gig and a somewhat formulaic tug at the emotions, all types on the social and physical spectrum covered by the six performers who look to do for tight-knit female ensembles what Alan Bennett's vaunted "The History Boys" did for his retinue of testosterone-charged school-age lads.
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There's no point in pretending that you aren't sitting on the beach reflecting on what youth looks like in a bathing suit, watching the more self-conscious adolescents tug at their coverage, or the less self-conscious zone out with their earbuds in to protect them from their family groups, or admiring the he-must-be-10-years-older-than-we-are Father Neptune figure with the splendid dripping mustache who comes striding up out of the rolling breakers.
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