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With the Times, he plays out the “family” rationalization by getting weepy over a colleague who ventured pregnant into a war zone.
From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 9, 2026
Unlike Douglas Sirk’s beautifully photographed Technicolor melodramas of the 1950s, or the subgenre’s more narratively contemplative, weepy entries from the late ’70s, the new guard of romantic tearjerkers doesn’t have a pronounced stylistic draw.
From Salon • Mar. 19, 2026
“Forces loyal to the absent Shah of Iran swept iron-willed, weepy old Premier Mohammed Mossadegh out of power today with a bloody nine-hour coup,” the Associated Press wrote Aug. 20, 1953.
From Barron's • Mar. 5, 2026
"So that last afternoon in the studio was quite a weepy one... But then we went to Nando's. So it's all about balance."
From BBC • Dec. 5, 2024
Dick was sick of him— his harmonica, his aches and ills, his superstitions, the weepy, womanly eyes, the nagging, whispering voice.
From "In Cold Blood" by Truman Capote
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