Word: sobbing
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...started to cry. She recalls, "It was the most caring present I have ever received-very complicated, with many parts, five of which I have figured out the meaning of. It took him months of thought to put it together." As she tells the story, she starts to sob again. Then she laughs. "I have asked Warren what the other parts mean, but he won't discuss anything personal. He is not incapable of reaching out, but he has to do it his way." On hearing that his sister is still so deeply touched by his gesture, Warren grins...
...part, Henley is to blame for slipping in cumbersome cliches like "People need to communicate with one another. It's a human need." More culpable, though, is director Pentecost, who gets carried away with unbelievable sob scenes as Lenny and Babe try to convince us that they are scarred by their past...
...Unfortunately, Susan reverts to the all too common methods of alcohol and hedonistic fantasies, and when these fail her, she attempts unsuccessfully to end her own life. Susan is miraculously, and somewhat unrealistically, saved from an overdose by her ex-husband, but it is a contrived redemption. Too many sob stories, too much booze, and too many trite lines about guilt and the meaning of life at the wrong time make the novel seem more like a sappy tear-jerker than a poignant analysis of a tormented woman. Unfortunately, the portrait of Susan is less vivid. While the majority...
...supreme realist, who saw the humor, or the absurdity, in most human situations. When his good friend Clifton Webb mourns over the death of his mother, Coward is, for instance, properly sympathetic. To his journal, however, he expresses his impatience: "Poor Clifton is still, after two months, wailing and sob bing over Maybelle's death. As she was well over 90, gaga, and had driven him mad for years, this seems excessive and overindulgent. He arrives here on Monday [Dec. 19] and I'm dreaming of a wet Christmas...
...stifled a sob. Lou looked up from a bottle of Top o' the Heather long enough to mutter, "There goes Mary Waterworks again." Sue Ann nibbled on a quiche...