Sentence examples for cusp of tears from inspiring English sources
"It's hard," she said softly, on the cusp of tears.
It's not their voices so much, it's that they want something so desperately that they're on the cusp of tears all the time.
In Holland it was even better, with Jack Van Gelder repeatedly screaming "DENNIS BERGKAMP!" Van Gelder was not the only one who seemed on the cusp of tears.
He is on the cusp of tears and the proud English tradition of the stiff upper lip is taking a serious hit: Gazza's is wobbling all over the place.
At times, readers will find themselves on the cusp of tears because there are "lump in your throat" moments.
He is the eternal cheeky underdog, with lightning fists and an open face that seems forever on the cusp of either tears or laughter.
Now she appears to be on the cusp of two worlds – torn between the idiosyncratic freedom of dance and the crowd of loving people who appear on film, watching her from the back of the stage, and ultimately absorb her.
According to the Kennedy Center press notes, the musical is the story of the ballerina Marie, on the cusp of womanhood, as she is "torn by her family's poverty, her debt to the artist, and the lure of wealthy men".
In one scene a woman on the cusp of adulthood peers through a tear in the wall at an ominous night scene; elsewhere she is confronted with a menacing cave and an entrapping chimney flue.
