But before you take out your crying towel or sell your Internet stocks, remember that our society is feeling its way into a new era.
Once the Mets collect either their World Series rings or their crying towels, he departs for Florida, his winter home, where his to-do list includes riding his bike, fishing, and more reading.
Lisicki made it to the side, then lay face-down on a towel, crying, as a trainer rubbed her legs.
"You'll never hear me say 'I' anything, but I lost this game," said Roethlisberger, who appeared to be crying into a towel when reporters entered the locker room Sunday.
Ours was crowned with me stomping out of the tub clad in a towel and crying, "Please, please, promise me that won't ever happen to us!" My husband of 25 years thought this was the silliest thing I have ever said.
He has been my crying-towel on more occasions than I care to think about, my best listener, my face to come home to at night and, on some days, the only reason I could convince myself to get out of bed and keep going.
The awe-struck regard for the lush life becomes comical when one of her friends, rushing into the bathroom of Leeann's town house, is imagined to be "muffling her crying in a monogrammed towel".
As Williams shouted and grinned and thrust her powerful arms into the air, Azarenka sat in her chair courtside and cried into a towel.
He wanted to forget the nights he cried into a towel so no one would hear.
At the end of that first night, exhausted but unable to sleep, she begins her chronicle, pausing occasionally in a futile attempt to seek comfort in browsing old photos and messages from friends: "I'd held in my tears all day, so I wrapped myself in a bath towel and cried until morning came".
