My heart sinks when I think about the future of my daughters.

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When the typical middle-aged male goes to buy a shirt, his heart sinks as he looks at the label with its "L" preceded by numerous "X"s.

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My heart sinks when I think about this.

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"My heart sinks to think of the hundreds of thousands of pounds that the council has spent on this exercise through the hiring of expensive lawyers and the time and energy that could have been spent on delivering services for the people of Essex, " Lord Hanningfield said.

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That's why one's heart sinks at the banality of Mr. Weitz's screenplay, and the clumsiness of most of the cast: Dennis Quaid as the befuddled president, Marcia Gay Harden as his wife, Hugh Grant as the TV show's smarmy host, Chris Klein as an amorous soldier and Sam Golzari as Omer, the singing assassin.

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