Some fans sighed; some cried.
The question was often followed by silence lasting several seconds; some patients sighed or made a tentative attempt to respond; some asked the physician to repeat the question.
"I'm trying to get some clarity," sighed an exasperated Tyrie.
For even though some contributors sighed at the "fiercely independent" academics with whom they work, they conceded that there is huge branding potential in their commitment.
My father, his shoulders a little slumped, took in some breath, sighed, and curled his finger over his top lip in that way he does when he has no answer, no salve to make it better.
As for the Cubs, he sighed, "Some things are just impossible".
Some events, she sighed, were absolute fate, unalterable by free will and beyond the power of any astrologer to avert.
As fans were given the ribbons, many also stopped and looked at the pictures of the three young women, some sighing or shaking their heads as they walked away.
It can all seem too sweet, or too calculated, and thus easy to dismiss as a humbug or a thing to be endured in some sighing, tinsel-tinged burden of commercial or family expectation.
"We are breathing some sighs of relief this morning, but we stress that this is still very, very early," the Queensland State premier, Anna Bligh, told the Channel Ten news network.
