heart-rendering

[Jonathan Lighter]

In his prepared public statement on yesterday's campus shootings, NIU President John Peters described the outpouring of public sympathy as "renewing and heart-rendering."  He used the word "heart-rendering" in this connection twice within one minute.

  This is the first time I've heard "heart-rendering" [sic] used as a synomnym for "moving; heart-warming."


  JL


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