The wrenching story is told largely through the 28-year-old Bill Stenger.

A wrenching story is made all the more powerful by some incredibly good performances.

This book is the wrenching story of her parting from her daughter, their turbulent reunion 11 years later and the fragile peace they made as adults.

The "wrenching story" of her subsequent medical treatment led her to write Memoir of a Debulked Woman (2012, ISBN 978-0-393-07325-6).

Mr. Williams recalls seeing the film without music and feeling humbled at the thought of scoring such a wrenching story.

But there are more wrenching stories than Mr. Wang's.

This month, they brought home a different 4-year-old girl, also with handicaps, writing a happy ending to what has been a wrenching story.

At first, Mr. Perel politely deflected the query, but when it came up again, he told a wrenching story.

And so he asked women gathered in the Roosevelt Room to tell their wrenching stories of wanted pregnancies ended after their fetuses suffered rare and dangerous complications.

The wrenching story seemed to promise resolution.