Sentences with phrase «of sob»

My story does not start with lack or suffering or any kind of sob story, but with a lot hard work, determination and a slight case of the investor blues.

• Denialist astroturfing operations care solely about bird - based propaganda... or any other kind of sob - story they can exploit for denialist purposes.

Particularly following relatively closely on the heels of the sob story from (can't remember the name of the guy, but he had been the prime man on their enviro beat for years, or so he claimed).

It should be noted that even in a Schrader adaptation that Allie Fox isn't as much of an SOB as he is in the book form.

No one with good intentions will ask an online match for money — no matter how much of a sob story they seem to have.

Beware of sob stories of illness and bad luck that require your urgent financial support.

Beware of the sob story - someone saying they want to visit you, but needs a loan to pay for the travel or an ill family member who needs help with medical expenses.

- Beware of the sob story - someone telling you how much they want to visit you but need a loan to pay for the ticket / visas.

But the courts are setup in such a way that a jury of NON Medical professional hear these cases and award large sums because of the sob stories presented at the lawyers.

I look forward to many more decades of the SOB!

(and a valued member of the SOB community!)

well, the comments live on in the «mine is bigger than yours» thread of the SOB.

I can't help but laugh at the people who every other day say Dana is a full of it sob, then suddenly think he's gonna kill his cow because «he said he was disgusted..

Some people have pastors who explain these things but I don't know why she sits alone amidst the bodies that the water left behind — bodies of houses, bodies of cars, bodies of boats, bodies of people — knees bent, arms clasped beneath bare thighs, held together by the stiff embrace of a sob, or why the earth shook, or why the water came, or why she has taken off her boots, or why she sits alone amidst the bodies that the water left behind; I only know that I don't want a pastor who explains these things.

Gay «No» campaigners Keith Mills and Paddy Manning pointed out that such was perfectly possible without undermining family structures completely since extensive Civil Partnership legislation was already in place, and they did make a difference, but the softening up of the electorate by years of sob - stories would have taken far more time and effort to overcome.

You got us sayin» «Leh, you ridiculous as hell»»), but she's overcome with paroxysms of sobbing.

The sight of sobbing, frantic children would be of no importance?

When I received my grade... and promptly burst into a fit of sobs... my instructor informed me that I had a bad habit of overcorrecting when I made a mistake.

So I feel it's important to note that I didn't crumple to the kitchen floor in a heap of sobs; I just happened to be sitting on the kitchen floor when I started to cry.)

When there were moments of silence the sound of sobbing could always be heard in the crowd.

and then exploded into a spasm of sobs, like a flock of geese thundering upward after the firing of a shotgun.

It's hopeless — no lip - biting can possibly dam it now that the gates are open, now that Pat has already brought Michelle to tears twice that day, at halftime and just after the game, and... here it... here it comes... the third wave of sobs.

Or, rather, on his dream deferred: a framed, full - page newspaper photograph of himself sobbing into his hands after finishing dead last in the 1,500 final at the 1996 Olympics in Atlanta.

For first - time parents, learning how to survive in The Land Logic Forgot can be quite a challenge — you never know what's going to flip your kid's switch from the «cute and funny» setting to «cyclone of sobs, screams, and flailing limbs.»

On the verge of not just crying, but of sobbing.

I held her and kissed her downy head as her body shook and hiccupped in the aftermath of her sobbing.

I fumbled with my keys and held my breath just long enough to open the door, get in and close it before collapsing on the steering wheel in a heap of sobs.

As you develop a routine with your baby, you'll often be able to figure out what she needs just by the sound of her sobs.

The sound of sobbing echoed inside the temple's vast sanctuary, a 10 - minute drive east of the Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School, where his daughter was one of 17 fatalities Wednesday.

On her way to work the following spring, Hind is met by dozens of sobbing, traumatized young children, who have been orphaned in the Deir Yassin massacre.

And I absorbed footage of a sobbing, pleading Kerrigan replayed again and again on the news; I admired her resilience even as I identified with Harding's frizzy, unruly blond hair.

Even a gusty late - act narrative flip by Chazelle — the kind of bold move that could torpedo another, lesser film — works perfectly, and will almost certainly leave you a human - shaped pile of sobs and tears and damp Kleenex.

But of course they were poor, at least compared to their friends, and no amount of suave English, the sort that issued uncontrollably from their mouths, could change that; no amount of sobbing in Victorian sentences or chest beating before the Oxonian anchors on The News Tonight, who interviewed them, who stoked their outrage, could drape them or their dead children in the glow of foregone success: Mr. and Mrs. Khurana were forty and forty, and they had suffered the defining tragedy of their lives, and so all other competing tragedies were relegated to mere facts of existence.

Roy Lichtenstein (1923 - 1997) won international fame for mining comic strips for subject matter, mimicking the black outlines, bold colors and Ben - Day dots of the funny pages in paintings of sobbing damsels and air battles.

Not exact matches

You'll laugh and sob while watching this makeover show, where the fabulous new Fab Five make over men in the state of Georgia.

I have been in an office when the men in black arrived and started removing all of the computers and files and changing the locks while the owner of the business sat sobbing and refusing to let go of his desk until the police came and threw him off the property.

Harper, accompanied by his sobbing wife Laureen, told an ashen assembly of Conservative MPs and senators that «our colleague, my partner and my friend» had passed away, «an unexpected and terrible shock.»

The Power of Nice, by sports agent Ronald Shapiro and Mark Jankowski, summarizes this common vision as «Two SOBs locked in a room trying to beat the daylights out of each other.»

You're probably a competitor of mine so all you really want is to look at my connections and then steal them, you dirty SOB.

It may be a repercussionless sob when you're atop the chain of command.

While VidCon is still typified by mob - like worship in the form of selfies and sobbing, «this year the fans seem to have a little bit more respect,» Camarena said.

«He's an egomaniac devoid of all moral sense» ---- said the society woman dressing for a charity bazaar, who dared not contemplate what means of self - expression would be left to her and how she would impose her ostentation on her friends, if charity were not the all - excusing virtue ---- said the social worker who had found no aim in life and could generate no aim from within the sterility of his soul, but basked in virtue and held an unearned respect from all, by grace of his fingers on the wounds of others ---- said the novelist who had nothing to say if the subject of service and sacrifice were to be taken away from him, who sobbed in the hearing of attentive thousands that he loved them and loved them and would they please love him a little in return ---- said the lady columnist who had just bought a country mansion because she wrote so tenderly about the little people ---- said all the little people who wanted to hear of love, the great love, the unfastidious love, the love that embraced everything, forgave everything, and permitted everything ---- said every second - hander who could not exist except as a leech on the souls of others.»

I have long since lost count of the number of times my father has told me that I am going to hell or have spit in the face of God while my mother sits there sobbing and nodding in agreement, since I came out to them just a little over a year ago.

After a time I ran out of words and lay silently, sobbing somewhat but grateful he had heard me rant and rave and empty out all of myself.

Clearly, money grubbing SOBs are not religious either (something about a camel passing through the eye of a needle).

As Julie herself has suggested in a few comments on this thread, it's the sob storyline of «the suffering spouse» whose wife has become mentally ill, and the marriage has long since declined, but she is still grasping to keep it alive or alternatively to take revenge, and et cetera, et cetera.

If I were trying to make up a sympathy sob story I would make up better details, more believable ones, than the grinding, boring, crushing, and banal reality of what it was like to be targeted by Men Of God protecting their image and bottom linof what it was like to be targeted by Men Of God protecting their image and bottom linOf God protecting their image and bottom line.

What I loved about the rituals of grief — the viewing, the flowers, the stories, the songs, the laughter, the sobbing, the burial — was that they forced me to keep moving, to avoid getting stuck in a place of despair.

Tony and I curled up in that backseat and sobbed into our pillows for the first 60 miles of the eight - hour stretch.

And sometimes it happens that they meet in an abandoned shrine, and place on the altar a stole which they still keep, and recite all the prayers of the Eucharistic liturgy; and then, at the moment that corresponds to the transubstantiation a deep silence comes down upon them, a silence sometimes broken by a sob... so ardently do they desire to hear the words that only the lips of a priest can efficaciously utter.