Sentences with phrase «face tearful»

Another recent study suggested the state's willingness to do this kind of thing, often in the face tearful protests by teachers and students, accounts for somewhere between 25 percent and 40 percent of recent academic gains.

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Dost sit alone with tearful face As mother stricken with the loss of child?

If convicted, Bertuzzi, who offered a tearful apology to Moore two days after the incident, faces up to 10 years in jail.

To underline the point, director Matt Reeves frames a sequence of Gary Oldman shuffling through family photographs on his iPad, the glow from the screen quietly lighting the actor's tearful, joyful face; and then repeats the trick a few scenes later, with an entirely CGI character delivering just as complex a scene in total wordlessness, with a different glowing screen and different family pictures.

And now, after all these months of fuss and hysteria and delectable details — the Patent King, his beautiful heiress daughters, the downstairs tenant, the kitchen - maid - cum - tearful - Scarsdale - housewife and her munificent husband, the turret window, the missing gardener, the exact length and serration of the blade used to murder the victim — here we all sit, waving our makeshift fans before our perspiring faces, and it turns out these mythical figures are human after all!

What you have to keep in mind when faced with these heart wrenching stories is the good that will be done for each animal — the homes that will be found for the ownerless animals, the reuniting of lost pets with tearful owners, and the healing of animals that are brought in injured.