Word: weepingly
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When Kensuke Onishi decided to use his foreign university degree and fluent English to help internally displaced refugees in Kurdish Iraq, his Japanese mother's friends told her they understood if she wanted to weep. After all, shouldn't a dutiful Japanese son return home and work for a big company, like the droves of salarymen before him? But in 1996, Onishi founded one of Japan's largest international NGOs, Peace Winds Japan, which operates everywhere from Sudan to East Timor. Today, the 41-year-old Osaka native has noticed that his countrymen no longer consider helping less fortunate foreigners...
Ferrari 275 GTS It's possibly one of the worst Ferraris that was ever made. But it makes me weep with pleasure whenever I see it, because it's such a beauty. That's always been my favorite...
...asked.“F...F,” she wrote, with such force that the chalk snapped in two.Just then, Frederick wandered into the room, humming and sighing arias and laments to himself. He ran his fingers across some volumes of Coleridge, seemed to weep for a minute, then looked up. Felicity could not have explained why, but she pitied him.“Do you want to join us this afternoon?” asked Felicity. “Signore Filippo and I are attending an exhibit by one of our most talented countrymen. Really, a true artist...
...radio host) and self-deprecating in a wry but not flagellating way. A self-proclaimed "civics geek," "policy wonk" and "prude," she will often dare to be square. On Wednesday's radio show Maddow acknowledged that whenever she hears The Star-Spangled Banner, "I immediately start to weep." Then she cut to a live feed of the convention's nominating roll call, and as New York State delegate Hillary Clinton proposed that Obama be declared the candidate then and there, Maddow blurted out, "I'm crying...
...obscene phone calls usually include the threat to put something big of his into something small of the other fellow's. When Peck learns that Speedman has been captured by the bandits, he gets a little shiver of conscience: "They'll kill him." Grossman nods reverently, "And we will weep. In the press...