She glanced behind her Wait, he said with a heart-tugging plea in his voice.

That is why there was another heart-tugging element to Wednesday's proceedings.

A beautiful and heart-tugging tale of two families who are so different from one another, yet connected through a special bond.

Viewers also respond to the heart-tugging ads, and those will be represented on the show.

Ill continue to tell you all kinds of juicy, funny, heart-tugging stories.

Even the music, swelling thrillingly at every heart-tugging opportunity, has a 70's feel.

Their relationship is all the more touching because the film resists obvious heart-tugging devices.

Scratch the surface, and you may find something like a heart-tugging sitcom episode beneath.

Other times the objectives demand an assault on the senses or heart-tugging intimacy.

There are no heart-tugging songs about football, just marches.

It is titillating, heart-tugging and funny all at once.

The real story, according to Bruce Davis, was decidedly less heart-tugging.

This gentility may be wishful, but as a heart-tugging device it works.

He reminded her with a heart-tugging abruptness of her own lost son.

There is a kind of glaring power and trueness to her sound rather than any heart-tugging luxury.

The heart-tugging call for greater gun control, however, even in the wake of the Connecticut school massacre, is less likely to be as politically popular.

But with her heart-tugging backstory, it's really anyone's guess.

It's used to stunning, heart-tugging effect here when Simba confronts his past.

(He later walked the elderly woman back to the car, transforming another ridiculous moment into a heart-tugging one.

They will probably try to do that in the most convenient way, with a heart-tugging campaign about lost summer-school and preschool classes.

In among the self-conscious wisecracks, it also has flashes of heart-tugging emotion.

The film's methods "seem outrageously heart-tugging at first," she said, "but they work."

The emotional punch line is the heart-tugging moral.

For the past five years, the department store's heart-tugging adverts have been acknowledged as a highlight of seasonal viewing.

Some of the more heart-tugging moments come when in 1995 Jobs lamented the short 10-years he spent at Apple.