wet-eyed

A wet-eyed Jorge Posada met Jeter at home plate with a bear hug, and every other teammate followed, as the game with Tampa Bay was put on hold for five minutes of celebration.

Jeter Homers for His 3000th Hit Daniel Barbarisi 2011

Best of all is the progressive dissolution of one of the festival organizers, Artie Kornfeld, wet-eyed and helplessly grinning, whose head — by Sunday morning — appears to have been dunked in a bucket marked NERVOUS BREAKDOWN.

Woodstock Nation 2009

Best of all is the progressive dissolution of one of the festival organizers, Artie Kornfeld, wet-eyed and helplessly grinning, whose head — by Sunday morning — appears to have been dunked in a bucket marked NERVOUS BREAKDOWN.

Woodstock Nation 2009

"With nearly every scene granting him a wet-eyed close-up as the traumatic origins of Albert's stutter are unravelled, his performance registers at a pitch that Oscar voters are bound to respond to."

Hugh Grant and Colin Firth, the screen's leading Englishmen at 50 Vanessa Thorpe 2010

To conceive of them separated was unthinkable to every wet-eyed soul at the burial.

Double Vision 2010

From a “Why Boehner was crying” link on the washingtonpost.com homepage, readers were invited to submit photo "mashups," superimposing an image of a wet-eyed Boehner onto the image of something that might have prompted those tears.

Are John Boehner's tears fair game for Post satire? Andy Alexander 2010

September 11, 2007 lildb said ... there's so much to get the wet-eyed syndrome over in this post.

How Do I Spell Relief? A-l-l-G-o-o-d. kittenpie 2007

I find the hand-wringing, wet-eyed hysteria of the universalist “rights” crowd more tiresome than that of most 12 year old girls.

The Volokh Conspiracy » The Declaration of Independence and the Case for Non-Ethnic Secession: 2009

Instead, there were inevitable rumormongering, wild - and wet-eyed journalism, and irresponsible public officials, like Mayor Ray Nagin, who predicted that there'd be 10,000 New Orleans citizens dead from the hurricane.

Richard Bradley: The Myths of Katrina 2008

I hope you're napping and eating bad airline food and annoying the crap out of uptight people, and that no one is looking at you all wet-eyed telling you how brave and special you are and then talking about you to Linda as though you are an object.

Goodbye! Let's hope I get there.....AND back. Elizabeth McClung 2008