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But onstage, he is a sensitive crooner, fond of heart-twisting ballads that would make Air Supply blush.

Manny Pacquiao Deserves a Better Encore Jason Gay 2011

He might not have had the name recognition of the first two: Marlon Brando in his heart-twisting role as the misguided kid brother of the union bum in On the Waterfront, and Humphrey Bogart as the scruffy, crude, unwashed captain of a broken down river barge in African Queen.

Buzzine » Night and the City 2008

The Korngold Violin Concerto, as all of you assuredly know, opens with the soloist playing a wonderfully mellifluous and heart-twisting melody.

Archive 2007-11-01 Jessica 2007

The Korngold Violin Concerto, as all of you assuredly know, opens with the soloist playing a wonderfully mellifluous and heart-twisting melody.

...with lots of love from Fritz Jessica 2007

That ambivalent electricity courses through Peter Berg's bone-crunching, heart-twisting movie.

THE GLARE OF THE LIGHTS 2007

P.S. There is the most engaging grocery boy with red hair and a heart-twisting grin.

Jane Journeys On Ruth Comfort Mitchell 1918

Shedding some light on the longstanding, heart-twisting problem of how to think about Betty Friedan.

humorlessbitch 2010

But she raised herself on her arms and knees and smiled at me and never stopped her motion, and when I went weak inside and felt sweat break out on my forehead and felt my loins heat like a flame burning in a circle through paper, she leaned down on my chest again and kissed my mouth and neck and forced her hands under my back as though some part of me might elude her in that final, heart-twisting moment.

Heaven’s Prisoners James Lee Burke 1988

But she raised herself on her arms and knees and smiled at me and never stopped her motion, and when I went weak inside and felt sweat break out on my forehead and felt my loins heat like a flame burning in a circle through paper, she leaned down on my chest again and kissed my mouth and neck and forced her hands under my back as though some part of me might elude her in that final, heart-twisting moment.

Heaven’s Prisoners James Lee Burke 1988

But she raised herself on her arms and knees and smiled at me and never stopped her motion, and when I went weak inside and felt sweat break out on my forehead and felt my loins heat like a flame burning in a circle through paper, she leaned down on my chest again and kissed my mouth and neck and forced her hands under my back as though some part of me might elude her in that final, heart-twisting moment.

Heaven’s Prisoners James Lee Burke 1988