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Example sentences for: tearful

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Did you happen to catch Sam Donaldson's interview with a tearful George Bush senior on 20/20 last night?
Throw in a couple of well- intentioned, overbearing grandparents, tearful reminiscing about the poet- waiter's dead sister, and repeated shots of characters gazing soulfully out at the Pacific, and you've got the makings of a movie so overwrought it should only be shown on Lifetime.
Critics pant at the steamy, tearful sex scenes between Stella and young Winston (Taye Diggs), although Time 's Richard Corliss dissents, calling it "soft-pore cornography."
The NYT says that the tapes also contain "tearful passages."
The paper described a tearful child on television singing "You did more in your life than all the water in the sea."