Sentences with phrase «brushing back tears»

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Jackie Maguire was an old man, maybe forty, perhaps older, and he was trying to brush the tears away from his pockmarked face with the back of his hand.

Bishop: It's awfully hard to get it to go behind, it's so strong optically, but you know sometimes I want it to be fairly nicely done, so I would draw my very wet brush along this way but if you push it the other way, it will look torn, and I think that goes back to Esteban Vicente's collages, and Motherwell's, too.