Sentences with phrase «stifling sobs»

After experiencing a miscarriage last year, I spent a good portion of my daily commute — which I spent alone in my car — stifling sobs and fighting back tears.

«Our country has serious problems in its structure and daily life... It has darkness but many lights, and you can be proud,» he told his compatriots, stifling a sob.

It seems important to stifle that sob.

The tragic hero accomplishes his act at a definite instant in time, but in the course of time he does something not less significant, he visits the man whose soul is beset with sorrow, whose breast for stifled sobs can not draw breath, whose thoughts pregnant with tears weigh heavily upon him, to him he makes his appearance, dissolves the sorcery of sorrow, loosens his corslet, coaxes forth his tears by the fact that in his sufferings the sufferer forgets his own.

You sit in the waiting room, trying to stifle the sobs until the nurse comes.

At several points during our interview his shoulders shudder with sudden emotion as he stifles a sob or laugh, eyes widening in shock at each eruption.

In the first of a new series, Guardian film critic Peter Bradshaw stifles his sobs to tell us why he finds the Mathieu Amalric drama so upsetting — and why he's not afraid to say so