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SCOTT SIMON, host: When you hear Samuel Barber's "Adagio for Strings," it is impossible not to become moist-eyed and think about love and loss.

Building A Career On Barber, The Enigmatic American 2010

SCOTT SIMON, host: When you hear Samuel Barber's "Adagio for Strings," it is impossible not to become moist-eyed and think about love and loss.

Building A Career On Barber, The Enigmatic American 2010

Many Tories will turn moist-eyed at Meryl Streep's portrayal of an indomitable battler; most on the left will probably not need to take their hankies to the film.

No one should want to go back to the 80s – not even the Tories | Andrew Rawnsley 2011

Gibbs was at times sentimental and moist-eyed; "You've become a greater extension of my family," he said, which raises concerns about the Gibbs household.

Dana Milbank on departure of White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs Post 2011

As a moist-eyed Jim Halpert said to "the best boss I ever had," choking back his own tears, "Sometimes goodbyes are a bitch."

Matt's TV Week in Review: A Wedding, A Farewell, and More! 2011

The question of what exactly William Blake was on about has yet to be settled, but it probably didn't include a moist-eyed reverence for the settled institutions of church and state.

So Lewis Hamilton wants a longer national anthem. Has he heard the second verse? 2011

The footage of working men's clubs during the 60s and 70s is especially brilliant: the delicate etiquette of how older workers got to stand on the carpet and the younger ones further out on the lino, women contained in "the snug", mainly on Fridays, with a bottle of Sweetheart Stout and other abandoned wives to chat to; a tuneless club singer honking out an approximation of Frank Sinatra to moist-eyed, Brylcreem-sodden men.

Grace Dent: The Rules of Drinking 2012

At that very moment Wes Welker was downstairs in the stadium, moist-eyed, putting the blame on himself.

Gisele's Super-Sized Super Gaffe Jason Gay 2012

Don't get all moist-eyed and start looking wistfully toward heaven or be quoting the Constitution or in any other way even try to pretend that the issue of where to build the proposed mosque in downtown York City is an innocent one.

Michael Lutin: The Manhattan Mosque: A Solution 2010

The hypocrisy of spoiled Corin's anti-privilege position was little mentioned in the obituaries and moist-eyed tributes paid to him by luvvies last week.

Beyond Their Range 2010