SCOTT SIMON, host: When you hear Samuel Barber's "Adagio for Strings," it is impossible not to become moist-eyed and think about love and loss. ❋ Unknown (2010)
Many Tories will turn moist-eyed at Meryl Streep's portrayal of an indomitable battler; most on the left will probably not need to take their hankies to the film. ❋ Unknown (2011)
The question of what exactly William Blake was on about has yet to be settled, but it probably didn't include a moist-eyed reverence for the settled institutions of church and state. ❋ Unknown (2011)
Gibbs was at times sentimental and moist-eyed; "You've become a greater extension of my family," he said, which raises concerns about the Gibbs household. ❋ Post (2011)
As a moist-eyed Jim Halpert said to "the best boss I ever had," choking back his own tears, "Sometimes goodbyes are a bitch." ❋ Unknown (2011)
The footage of working men's clubs during the 60s and 70s is especially brilliant: the delicate etiquette of how older workers got to stand on the carpet and the younger ones further out on the lino, women contained in "the snug", mainly on Fridays, with a bottle of Sweetheart Stout and other abandoned wives to chat to; a tuneless club singer honking out an approximation of Frank Sinatra to moist-eyed, Brylcreem-sodden men. ❋ Unknown (2012)
At that very moment Wes Welker was downstairs in the stadium, moist-eyed, putting the blame on himself. ❋ Jason Gay (2012)
Don't get all moist-eyed and start looking wistfully toward heaven or be quoting the Constitution or in any other way even try to pretend that the issue of where to build the proposed mosque in downtown York City is an innocent one. ❋ Unknown (2010)
The hypocrisy of spoiled Corin's anti-privilege position was little mentioned in the obituaries and moist-eyed tributes paid to him by luvvies last week. ❋ Unknown (2010)
How could you not become a little moist-eyed, on first watching? ❋ Polly Vernon (2010)
When they wanted to sell these extreme cuts, the Conservative and Liberal Democrats would turn moist-eyed and say it was "immoral" to "burden the next generation with higher debts." ❋ Johann Hari (2010)
From there, it is all movie-of-the-week music swells, moist-eyed testimonials, and oblique-angled montages of pink, milk-fed children getting doinked with red rubber balls. ❋ MATT LABASH (2010)
So he gave the orders, and they turned them free, and the young lieutenant knelt beside me with the water-bottle, very respectful and moist-eyed. ❋ Unknown (2010)
Yes, it is true that much moist-eyed solicitude for the poor taxpayer is expressed in budget season. ❋ Unknown (2008)
K rations and C rations were passed around from the tank drivers, and moist-eyed liberators on olive-green trucks and in the tanks were overcome with emotion. ❋ Unknown (2007)
Afghani groomed him as the bearer of the revolution, and Abdu responded with moist-eyed idolatry. ❋ Dominic Green (2007)
Although I didn't carry things as far as an old Militant comrade who tragically drank himself to death in celebration, I sat and drank on, moist-eyed and maudlin as Tony Blair made his emotional victory speech. ❋ Laban (2005)
