She was brokenhearted when her boyfriend left her.
she was brokenhearted when the relationship ended
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In the Netflix dramedy Too Much, a brokenhearted American, Jess, makes the move across the pond, inspired in part by daydreams of stately castles, rolling green hills and dashing gentlemen professing their ardent admiration.—Angie Han, HollywoodReporter, 8 Aug. 2025 What can be dizzying about the collection is the way traditional themes of Yiddish song and Hebrew liturgy — lyrics of resilience in the face of persecution, prayers of consolation for the brokenhearted, Lamentations read on Tisha B’Av — are recast with the Palestinians as their protagonists.—Andrew Silow-Carroll, Sun Sentinel, 5 Aug. 2025 Dager is a real discovery as Santi, confidently navigating the adolescent swings between sullen rebellion and guileless wonder, boyish silliness and brokenhearted fury.—Angie Han, HollywoodReporter, 3 June 2025 If my random and unscientific survey of some French opinion at all represents the nation’s as a whole, then the debut of Donald Trump’s America has left some French triste — a bit sad, even brokenhearted, and also wary and vigilant.—Patt Morrison, Los Angeles Times, 3 May 2025 And having already proven her scary-movie bona fides with last year’s Heretic, Thatcher does a lot of the heavy lifting here, and brings a real sense of brokenhearted bewilderment, existential dread, and eventually, an avenging-angel sense of righteousness to Iris.—David Fear, Rolling Stone, 31 Jan. 2025 Alice Hulme from Wellingborough, in Northamptonshire in the U.K. might not have gone through what Simpson has physiologically but there's no doubting she's brokenhearted following the death of her French Bulldog, Paddington.—Gordon G. Chang, Newsweek, 25 Jan. 2025 At the top of the third episode, the Jackal assumes the role of some dead rich person’s brokenhearted progeny, visiting a high-end German funeral home to extract sensitive information from its computer system.—Nicholas Quah, Vulture, 28 Nov. 2024 And what better place for a brokenhearted person to escape?—Alejandra Gularte, Vulture, 19 Apr. 2024
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