We all wish we could just go up there, hug him, say the prayer for him, and end this wrenching scene.

They also described a wrenching scene when demolition began.

In a wrenching final scene, Karen and Gabe reflect uneasily on the complacency of their relationship.

It is for Tom, too, that Corrick reserves the novel's moment of greatest tenderness, in a wrenching scene toward the end.

The attack, in a poor, predominantly Shiite neighborhood of eastern Baghdad, left a wrenching scene of bloodshed, anger and despair.

Make no mistake: this is Ms. Field's party, and she makes the most of it, especially in some wrenching scenes of heartbreaking loss.

After the game, in a wrenching scene, he makes them run "Herbies" far into the night, asking the team who it was that they played for.

Mr. Levinthal saves the most wrenching scenes for last.

Lying in the dark, she tries to imagine herself elsewhere as they fight in the next room, enacting wrenching scenes from an unhappy marriage.

Also remarkable was the wrenching scene between the two sisters.