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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
“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
“Misericordia” subverts the long-held idea that gay coming-home movies equate to weepy melodramas.
From Salon ● Apr. 3, 2025
"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
Bull replied, “You may get your wish if you don’t cut the weepy scene.”
From "The Great Santini" by Pat Conroy
When they moved on to a literary culture in which irony and postmodernism reigned supreme, they were still dragging the baggage of a simpler, weepier world.
From New York Times ● Jan. 20, 2013
Written by Drake — the two were part of a group called the Renaissance, several years ago in Toronto — it’s a dark, slow creeper, with weepy piano and weepier lyrics about a no-good man.
From New York Times ● Mar. 19, 2012
Funerals are getting weepier, and a good thing, too, according to the executive secretary of the National Funeral Directors Association.
From Time Magazine Archive
It was the weepiest stretch of Pearl Jam’s otherwise celebratory debut at Climate Pledge Arena, which could be the start of something special.
From Seattle Times ● May 31, 2024
Above and below the snapshot are handwritten signs, reminders that have helped the actor mold his popular character, Papa Jack Pearson, on one of network TV’s weepiest family shows of the moment:
From Washington Times ● Mar. 13, 2017
To that effect, the Icelandic musician is the perfect choice for , which is easily Crowe’s weepiest tale to date.
From Time ● Dec. 27, 2011
The sight of a man coming down the aisle "wearing a smile" makes his old girl bust into tears; unquestionably the weepiest item since Cry.
From Time Magazine Archive
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