0 to cause strong feelings of love or sympathy:
It's the story of a lost child - guaranteed to tug at the heartstrings.
I think it struck many heartstrings because it sounded so old.
I am trying to wring the heartstrings of everyone.
Four months is a short time, but it was sufficient for that child to have woven herself very closely into the heartstrings of that home.
It tears at anyone's heartstrings to read about that even to this day.
I do not want to tear at heartstrings, but this is an infinitely tragic business.
It is that sort of uncertainty which is pulling at the heartstrings of my correspondent.
That kind of suggestion does not tug at the heartstrings to the extent that its advocates would wish.
I am not concerned here about the merits or demerits of the minimum wage legislation, but it is something that was very close to the heartstrings of my party.
