This was a woman who could bring you to tears with "Leise, Leise," the aria from "Der Freischutz," and then turn around and make you sob singing "He Was Too Good to Me".
Those who survived will still be in a state of shock, will be feeling that fight-or-flight surge of adrenaline that stops you from eating, sleeping; that keeps you babbling the story over and over; that rises and falls in waves, making you sob in the night.
"Take a look at your life/Are you petrified?" he cried in a near-sob, his passion so persuasive it made you rethink the notion of going too far.
He will shift the blame for everything and anything onto you in an attempt to try and make you feel like a sob worthy mess.
It's music that makes you want to get into an eyeliner-smearing, sobbing, public spectacle of a lover's tiff… in theory.
A. O. Scott writing for The New York Times said, "The film sets out to make you weepnot just sniffle or choke up a little, but sob until your nose runs and your face turns blotchy.
In fact, Nichols and May's definitive sketch, "Mother and Son" ("Someday … you'll have children of your own. And, honey, when you do, I only pray that they make you suffer the way you're making me. [Sobs.] That's all I pray, Arthur. That's a mother's prayer") was inspired by one of Brigitte's lethal phone calls.
I told myself, confusedly, that this probably had to do with my father, that he was definitely dead this time, which made me sob twice as hard.
The single best episode, the sixth, is like nothing else I've seen this year; I won't spoil it, but will say that it made me sob.
If it was affirmation that made Justin Bieber sob at this year's VMAs, then his current dominance in the UK singles charts must be overwhelming.
