Word: sob
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...internationally recognized for all of them. This will likely no longer hold true. And even though the value of resume padding has declined significantly, you’ll still unfathomably sign up for all sorts of extracurriculars that you have no actual interest in. Your environmentally conscious heart will sob at the absurd amount of (useless) fliers you receive...
...before the crackdown is of a woman reading a poem about Iranians standing up to change their country, afraid but determined to move into the morning, even if it is to face forces that would destroy them. The voice is sad and at one point almost breaks into a sob, and in the backdrop of the Tehran night can be faintly heard protest chants: "Allahu-Akbar, Allahu-Akbar." God is Great, God is Great. A Palestinian friend of mine remarked that those words would once have struck fear into the hearts of Americans. Now they inspire. That is a revolution...
...Reza Saberi, the reporter's father, was visibly expectant, and said that finally "things were moving on a rational track." The reporter's mother paced in front of the entrance impatiently, at times stopping to stand with her arms akimbo and dropping her head, at others squatting down to sob into a napkin. When the journalist was finally released, she was taken through a back door, out of reporters' view. Later, in front of her home in the north of Tehran, her father said she was in good health and had been taken to a relative's house to rest...
Fair Britannia is at war! All behold, as the drama unfolds in what historians will surely come to call “The Battle of the British Underdogs.” Or maybe they’ll call it “The Great Sob-Story Shootout at Schadenfreude City.” Granted, no bullets will be fired in this battle, and no blood will be drawn. I write, of course, of the recent developments on the television program “Britain’s Got Talent,” our former colonizers?...
...Nixon in his many TV appearances this week. Nixon came up again in the state-senate soliloquy, which drew heavily on Nixon's signature blend of bathos, defiance, self-pity and implausibility. The same thing that tripped up Nixon felled Blagojevich: tapes, yes - but also the fact that the SOB-with-a-heart-of-gold act can work only if people are willing to believe that you might have a heart...