"John Q." has the feel of a picture developed to work every heartstring.

The most sensitive and effective heartstring the press seems able to pull is the issue of national pride.

Even now, she can deliver a punch line and tug a heartstring with the best of them.

These were choices of someone who knows how to pluck a heartstring, investing mere threads with mood.

So perishes one heartstring," said the old man.

Hearing Lincoln's resounding phrase put to the service of a made-for-the-tube heartstring tugger was enough to sink the heart.

Mr. Dole went for the heartstring vote with references at the very start and at the very end to his war wound.

Her wand is walnut, 12 3/4 inches, dragon heartstring, unyielding and according to Ollivander should be treated carefully.

Bellatrix has the Walnut wand, with a Dragon Heartstring.

Her brand of social commentary - dark, melodramatic, shamelessly tugging at any heartstring in sight - spawned many imitators.

The expansive seven-minute epic "Heartstring" is an effective blend of singer/songwriter-style rock form and bluegrass style.

The Heartstring Stranglers

Those made by Mr. Ollivander have one of three cores: dragon heartstring, unicorn tail hair or phoenix feather.

He collaborated with his daughter Heather Porcaro on her debut album, the Heartstring Symphony - released in 2009.

Heather Porcaro The Heartstring Symphony produced by Tony Berg 2009

It is an obvious heartstring tugger during most of its length, and it frequently dallies with the thrills of old fashioned melodramas."

"Air on a Heartstring" / "Arrival of the Queen" (with Horea Crishan)

An action-filled comedy with requisite heartstring tugs in the best "Dumbo" tradition, "Lilo" has the most original story to come from Disney in years.

Each February, Harlequin Enterprises, the prolific publisher of romance novels, issues surveys conducted by Roper Starch on various heartstring subjects.

Frankie & the Heartstring's hymn to Orange Juice's music and values is way past its sell-by date, writes Gareth Grundy

Salazar Slytherin's wand is shorter than both the cherry wand and the elder wand, but longer than the wand that contains the dragon heartstring.

Harry's uses phoenix feather, Hermione's uses dragon heartstring, and Ron's - purchased to replace his broken hand-me-down - uses hair from the tail of a unicorn.

Russ Juskalian from USA Today says The Clean Tech Revolution shows the green movement not in "heartstring terms" but as economically profitable.

"This particular show was created to appeal to a wide variety of audiences, to tug at the heartstring of all sorts of folks," said Barbara Kram, the museum's executive director.

Soulstickers Night Train Blue Sky Euphoria Days Mary's Wisdom Revealing the Sounds Heartstring

By the age of 13, he was singing in a gospel group, the Heartstrings.

"He saw those poor people, and it just worked on his heartstrings.

"Heartstrings" had profound effects on his life and work, he said.

But even a longtime baseball man has had his heartstrings pulled.

She felt he was drawing his bow across her heartstrings.

This dog wasn't even two months old and he already knew how to tug heartstrings.

It knows how to play the heartstrings without strumming too hard.

Few images pull the heartstrings like that of a nursing baby in a mother's arms.

Hollywood has certainly learned how to use health problems to tug at our heartstrings.

Can you recommend me one that's not designed to pull on our heartstrings?

As if someone had literally tugged his heartstrings, he turned and looked across the room.

Really goes straight for the old heartstrings doesn't he?

"We can always tell when a story particularly tugs at people's heartstrings," she said.

We've gone more for the emotional, tugging at the heartstrings approach.

And they will, ultimately, tug hard on your heartstrings in ways that you won't quite understand.

"And that might tug at the heartstrings of the jurors."

The stories were well written and pulled on heartstrings.

Its aim for both the heartstrings and the funny bone is right on the mark.

"Are there heartstrings connected/ To the poison coming out of your mouth?"

But for some people, a particular breed tugs at the heartstrings.

When she knelt in front of him, he'd plucked her heartstrings.

I'm going to follow my heartstrings and go back to it.'

There may someday be children yanking at his financial heartstrings.

The film, to its credit, never tries to pluck your heartstrings.

"That picture of Dibble with his daughter just tears my heartstrings."