"We've been a pretty weepy country through the centuries until the 20th Century, " says Dr Dixon.

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Sometimes it doesn't work, as in the maudlin "Please Don't Call It Love, " with its weepy, sleepy violin.

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Williams seems, thank heaven, to be pulling out of his weepy, puffy period.

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Looking back, she says not only was she furious and weepy she was humiliated to boot because she had given in to the tears.

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The Patriots were chasing a place as the Supreme Team of All-Ever Awesomeness, and that 17-14 Giants upset was a slingshot rock right into whatever weepy eyeball cliche you want to employ.

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The song is built from a weepy, descending bass line that is answered by a high figure, which plays a clump of small, hard sounds that are like both live instruments and computer-generated signals.

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It was a little difficult for me to get all weepy over the homilies about families and freedom, however, when Gibson's answer to any problem he confronts is to either shoot it or smash it.

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You can almost picture the plucky heroine trying to unpick the galactic conspiracy before someone loses an eye -- and if you've already cast weepy Clare Danes in the role, then you've already passed the entry exam to read Alt-week.

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Since releasing its first CD in 2001, the band has gradually abandoned its weepy pop-country sound for '80s-inspired college rock and new wave, but the incandescent passion in Lewis' voice has remained, drawing comparisons to Loretta Lynn and Neko Case.

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