Sentences with phrase «choking back tears»

«I hope he knows this is not all hot air,» Nicholson says, choking back tears.

It's incredibly charming, funny and touching, flitting between emotions so effortlessly that you sometimes find yourself laughing while still choking back the tears.

When Zhang Ziyi received the award from Maggie Cheung and Andy Lau, she was teary eyed and choking back her tears.

John Ridley brought some of Solomon Northup's descendants as he accepted his awards, choking back tears.

Choking back tears, he noted that his father worked two jobs, one as a school bus driver and one in the factory linked to the pollution, to support his family before succumbing to cancer.

«I really can't really describe what this feels like, but it is one of the best feelings I have ever had in my life,» said the openly - gay Quinn, choking back tears.

«My whole life I was working really hard and now I'm here and I can say I'm a Grand Slam champion, so it sounds really crazy,» she said, choking back tears.

Choking back tears, she recalled praying with Kris before he left.

«The entire picture was very shocking,» said Dr. Amy Barton, then a child abuse pediatrician at Children's Medical Center of Dallas, choking back tears on the stand.

One woman, who lost her husband, John Patrick Salamone, choked back tears while speaking about her children and the absence of their father.

She choked back tears as she talked before the members.

Late show host Jimmy Kimmel choked back tears last night as he held his son Billy, who recently underwent heart surgery, and urged Congress not to slash CHIP, a health insurance program for children.

MANHATTAN FEDERAL COURT — The Brooklyn businessman charged with bribing NYPD officials to obtain gun licenses choked back tears as he confessed to the crime Thursday.

In asking his colleagues to support the bill, Cross choked back tears while relating his wife's dedication to helping their 14 - year - daughter battle her chronic illness.

And young and old alike will find it difficult to choke back tears at the movie's final goodbye, but all in all, this is a deeply - felt, warm - hearted classic.

Upon accepting his Best Director Oscar, Del Toro choked back tears while paraphrasing another beloved landmark, 1942's «Yankee Doodle Dandy,» in which the iconic George M. Cohan (James Cagney) concludes his performances by saying, «My mother thanks you, my father thanks you, my sister thanks you.

Enjoy the thrills as she later shoves unwanted puppies and adult dogs into a gas chamber as she chokes back tears and goes home to try and explain to her children just what she does at work!

In the darkness of my subleased bedroom I had choked back tears, confused why I had felt such a palpable tug towards the West.

From content creator BlondeNerd bringing the most incredible energy to ID@Xbox — lighting up the demo room like a 12 shot Roman Candle — to watching the mum of an autistic boy choke back tears when I handed her a free Steam code for Dungeon League, the game they were playing (and loving) on our booth.

New Democratic Party Leader Thomas Mulcair choked back tears as he told reporters outside the House of Commons: «Jim Flaherty was an extremely dedicated public servant and he will greatly missed by all of us

Emma Gonzalez choked back tears as she remembered the students and teachers who died — then expressed anger that the massacre could happen and at the response from some political leaders.

I choked back the tears, showed the house, and made the sale.

Feeling your joy, your sorrow, you tension, such a beautiful share, once I choked back my tears I fell to my knee's into pray.

Not exact matches

But that evening in the back of his law office he fell to his knees and wept a great flood of tears, uttering choked confessions of his unworthiness.

I saw so many men and women on the verge of tears — and indeed was choking back myself... But people were decent, silent, pensive — no hysteria, no inappropriate shouting, just an honest and profound sadness...

Mosab's father, however, still believes him a traitor and has disowned him much like the majority of Palestinians, a point Schirman makes a bit too much on the nose by having Mosab deliver a lengthy speech near the film's end, culminating in choking back and wiping away tears.

Try, if you might, to choke back the inevitable tears brought on by the climactic 20 minutes, but these are tears which have been earned via crooked means.

A number of little asides involving him, most notably one concerning his agent and best friend Sammy Smith (Eddie Marsan) and his driven, intelligently outspoken wife Sophie (Helen McCrory), are magnificent, while a final dialogue between the actor and one of his writers in the wake of senseless tragedy had me choking back a handful of tears.

Right now, as I am listening to this part of the song, the words sink into my heart like never before because this August I will be seeing my little girl, my oldest daughter, walk down the aisle as (ok, choking back the big tears now) a beautiful bride.

I will be seeing my little girl, my oldest daughter, walk down the aisle as (ok, choking back the big tears now) a beautiful bride