wet-eyed

• “With nearly every scene granting him a wet-eyed close-up as the traumatic origins of Albert's stutter are unravelled, his performance registers at a pitch that Oscar voters are bound to respond to.”

  The Guardian: Hugh Grant and Colin Firth, the screen's leading Englishmen at 50

• “Best of all is the progressive dissolution of one of the festival organizers, Artie Kornfeld, wet-eyed and helplessly grinning, whose head — by Sunday morning — appears to have been dunked in a bucket marked NERVOUS BREAKDOWN.”

  Woodstock Nation

• “A wet-eyed Jorge Posada met Jeter at home plate with a bear hug, and every other teammate followed, as the game with Tampa Bay was put on hold for five minutes of celebration.”

  The Wall Street Journal: Jeter Homers for His 3000th Hit

• “To conceive of them separated was unthinkable to every wet-eyed soul at the burial.”

  Fictionaut: Double Vision

• “From a “Why Boehner was crying” link on the washingtonpost.com homepage, readers were invited to submit photo "mashups," superimposing an image of a wet-eyed Boehner onto the image of something that might have prompted those tears.”

  The Washington Post: Are John Boehner's tears fair game for Post satire?

• “I find the hand-wringing, wet-eyed hysteria of the universalist “rights” crowd more tiresome than that of most 12 year old girls.”

  The Volokh Conspiracy » The Declaration of Independence and the Case for Non-Ethnic Secession:

• “September 11, 2007 lildb said ... there's so much to get the wet-eyed syndrome over in this post.”

  How Do I Spell Relief? A-l-l-G-o-o-d.

• “Instead, there were inevitable rumormongering, wild - and wet-eyed journalism, and irresponsible public officials, like Mayor Ray Nagin, who predicted that there'd be 10,000 New Orleans citizens dead from the hurricane.”

  Richard Bradley: The Myths of Katrina

• “I hope you're napping and eating bad airline food and annoying the crap out of uptight people, and that no one is looking at you all wet-eyed telling you how brave and special you are and then talking about you to Linda as though you are an object.”

  Goodbye! Let's hope I get there.....AND back.

• “The couple has an intuitive chemistry that Bogart would only match when playing opposite his real-life wife Lauren Bacall, who presented a very different kind of love interest from the mushy, wet-eyed Bergman.”

  Casablanca

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