The house has been unbearably lonely without you.

In his next work, Die Meistersinger, Wagner ingeniously made poetry and drama out of an explicit manifesto to musical critics, and proved the depth of his music by developing its everyday resources and so showing that its vitality does not depend on that extreme emotional force that makes Tristan and Isolde almost unbearably poignant.

Their second song, "Out in the Woods," is unbearably poignant with aching cello and strange, pained Eastern European strings.

While individual moments are unbearably poignant, others seem oddly dispassionate.

The island's trade winds keep the summer season from being unbearably hot.