"When I walked in the incubator room," he said, "a whole family was sobbing around a crib".
In one house, the sister of two brothers among those killed — Beshoy and Samuel Istafanous — lay limp on the floor half-conscious as women sobbed around her.
Personally, that would make me hurl, but it works for Harry and Cho, and for the people quietly sobbing around me at the preview screening.
Suppose religion were abolished; less dramatically, suppose it simply withers away in the west, so that in north America and Europe all the Christians and Muslims die off, and their children drift into atheism while the missionaries huddle, sobbing, around cups of cocoa in their empty evenings.
But the images showing Robertson wielding a gun did little to assuage the fury of family members, who gathered at the Arco gas station where he was killed, embracing and sobbing around a growing collection of candles and kerchiefs.
You're on your death bed, blind as a bat, swinging around in the darkness as your family sobs around you, sad wet faces that you have never seen.
There was the sob heard around the world on election night, as Mr. Boehner addressed supporters once it was clear that Republicans would take back the House.
Don't sit around and sob incessantly.
The screams and sobs all around were deafening.
A week later, in the corner of their small living room, Marilyn's two daughters, Ana, 18, and Lunycar, 12, are sobbing, their bodies bent around their grandmother, Nani.
