Over on "The Voice," there's nary a sick relative unmentioned or rotten break unplumbed, and contestants are forever stifling sobs.
Little did I realise that within 10 minutes of putting my headphones on and pressing play, I would be reaching for my travel tissues and stifling sobs as passengers either side of me stared awkwardly into their complimentary peanuts and pretended not to notice.
I fear he had some kind of breakdown". Jennifer Kramer, seated in Wildflower Playfield in Thousand Oaks, stifles sobs in saying, "He's out there but his mind is gone". That, of course, is yet to be seen.
She attempted to stifle her sobs, then pulsed with anger.
As Mercer's guilty verdict was announced to the silent courtroom yesterday, Melanie Jones, 42, who was sitting opposite her son's killer, burst into tears and buried her head in her husband's shoulder to stifle her sobs.
I was the one immersed in trying to stifle my sobs as I watched my child walks down the aisle to the strains of "Pomp & Circumstance".
"The blue helmet —" He lowered his head to the helmet, almost touching the drying blood with his face, and sank into an armchair, his massive frame shaking as he tried to stifle his sobs.
But moments later, she looked at her mother and seemed to stifle a sob.
He shared how he didn't bother stifling his sobs, for every prisoner wept and mourned the loss of hope and life with the bird loss.
Back in his car, Mr. Laubinger stifled a sob.
