The character of Mary Sunshine, you know, who is what they called in newspapers a sob sister.
"There's such emphasis in the media about these horrible events that happen and it would be very likely for Ione's story to be put forward and indulged in as a sob story.
"50/50," a feel-good and slightly bad comedy-drama about a young man's fight against cancer, aims to put a tear in your eye and a sob in your throat, if not for long.
Tayaoniang ("Stepping and Swaying Woman") was a farcical domestic play in which a sobbing wife bitterly complained about her brutal husband, who then appeared and, singing and dancing, abused his wife even more.
And surely, placed against hospitals' behavior across the decades — their institutionalized rudeness, the titanic narcissism and the casual disregard of patients, families and everyone in between — a sob-free doctor can look bad.
Melancholy is Ms. Thompson's element; she sings with an English reserve that barely holds back a sob in her voice.
If a newspaper is the nation talking to itself, it is talking with a sob in its throat.
Well, yes, although you may find, like Ms. Emond's Ranyevskaya, that laughter often catches in your throat like a sob.
When you have an SOB in charge of an organization, clusters of emotional illnesses, productivity problems, and high personnel turnover are the norm, at great expense to the organization.
A sob caught in his throat.
