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But when they did a bayonet charge in training, aiming their steel points at bags of straw, hideously roaring, his trousers fell down.Screaming, kicking, slicing, hacking, ripping Thumping their chests: 'I am full of the god!' Blubbering with terror as they beg for their lives: 'Laid his trunk open from shoulder to hip— Like a beauty-queen's sash.'Violence, no.
Even 1995's Babe, in which our pig out of water finally learns to herd sheep and earns the praise of Farmer Hoggett in the process, can be seen as a classic male weepie: trust me, James Cromwell's pitch-perfect delivery of the phrase "That'll do, pig" is capable of turning the strongest of men into blubbering wrecks.
Although structured as an intimate slide show, the performance feels more like a slavishly chronological series of boozy barroom reminiscences, complete with the high-spiritedness, the cringe-inducing settling of scores, the wallowing, the feints of solemnity, and occasional blubbering incoherence built into that form.
A grown man, blubbering like he was, and that pink thrift-store oxford with the elbows patched, and his foppish hair — we looked very gay, and a little pathetic.
Over the course of a decade, starting at the age of twenty-eight, she received Botox and collagen injections, microdermabrasion, liposuction, an upper eye-lift, and a shot of a mucuslike substance called Restylane, which left her blubbering into a mug of vodka while sitting on her bathroom floor, her upper lip accidentally inflated to "the size of a large yam".
She began blubbering once we were outside the room, and she's a tough lot, that nurse.
If I'd left early, I would have been a blubbering thing sitting on the curb in the parking lot — the way I can be only in private, or sometimes, when he's being nice, with Armando.
The country needed to see Kerry really turn on the waterworks, blubbering unashamedly and dabbing his eyes with his necktie and pulling out a hankie the size of a laundry bag and blowing a heartfelt, robust honk to show he wasn't aloof.
Tears streaming down his cheeks, Rep. Boehner appeared unable to maintain his composure as he delivered a speech interrupted by blubbering and sharp intakes of breath.
He began weeping and blubbering.
Paula Abdul, the judge who mentored the "groups" category, was again forced to choose between two of her own contestants, and she almost surely locked up the 2011 Emmy Award for incoherent blubbering.
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Blubbering functions as a verb, often in its present participle form, describing the act of crying noisily and uncontrollably. Ludwig examples show its descriptive power in portraying intense emotion. According to Ludwig AI, the phrase "blubbering" is correct and usable in written English.
Expression frequency: Very common
