pull at the heartstringsの例文

• It pulls at the heartstrings of people.
• Shirley Temple pulls at the heartstrings as she fights to stay with a kind lighthouse keeper ( Guy Kibbee ).
• Needless to say, there is much about the show that pulls at the heartstrings, including, initially, the cramped scale.
• They seemed intended to pull at the heartstrings of the thousands of off-island subscribers, summer residents now preoccupied with work and family.
• "Wife Swap, " which begins Wednesday night, is not as weepy, but it, too, pulls at the heartstrings, tacking a life lesson onto every cultural collision.