Sentence examples for crying games from inspiring English sources

Team GB have won gold in the 2012 crying games.

A BBC commentator called it "the crying games," noting that in displays of emotion by athletes and spectators "the British stiff upper lip has trembled like never before".

By the time one finishes reading this startlingly eclectic study of trickery during sex, with its tales of demons disguised as lovers, women unknowingly bedding animals, husbands befuddled by their wives' twins, and crying games that invert all notions of gender, one is ready to ask, as Wendy Doniger does, why on earth the sexual act is spoken of as "carnal knowledge".

These were, alternately, the Women's Games or, based on the unusually high level of lachrymosity on display on medal stands and fields of play, the Crying Games.

There really is no point in talking about Berlin Biennale without mentioning Josh Kline's Crying Games.

Before reaching Kline's Crying Games, viewers wander into Cécile B. Evans' immersive and mesmerizing installation, What the Heart Wants.

It seems an age since John Newman's first album, Tribute, put on its dancing shoes, followed soon after by the crying game of Sam Smith's first album.

As for Mitt himself, a little welling or a bit of misting might be a fine idea, but he hasn't yet gotten the hang of the crying game, as his comment during that Parade interview demonstrated.

Sue Watson Edinburgh Surely the difference between Obama's and Thatcher's tears (The crying game, 9 January) is that Obama is crying for others, while Thatcher was crying for herself.

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