If, through this hard and often heartbreaking work, I've gotten some personal satisfaction, then so what.

I had all this back-breaking, heartbreaking work to do here.

His powerful and heartbreaking work, shot on black and white film, won a World Press Award.

It is an unsentimental yet heartbreaking work.

I saw that someone suggested reading The Heartbreaking Work of a Staggering Genius.

It was heartbreaking work for people in the state of exhaustion in which we then were, but we clung tenaciously to it.

Think a pro like me would ever have come up with "A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius"?

Difficult and heartbreaking work.

"A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius" was wonderful enough not to need its pomo paraphernalia.

It was heartbreaking work.