(a.) Calling for notice; compelling attention; notorious; heinous; as, a crying evil.
Example Sentences:
(1) But not only did it post a larger loss than expected, Amazon also projected 7% to 18% revenue growth over the busiest shopping period of the year, a far cry from the 20%-plus pace that had convinced investors to overlook its persistent lack of profit in the past.
(2) Are you ready to vote?” is the battle cry, and even the most superficial of glances at the statistics tells why.
(3) A series of hierarchical multiple regressions revealed the effects of Surgency, Agreeableness, Conscientiousness, Emotional Stability, and Intellect on evoking upset in spouses through condescension (e.g., treating spouse as stupid or inferior), possessiveness (demanding too much time and attention), abuse (slapping spouse), unfaithfulness (having sex with others), inconsiderateness (leaving toilet seat up), moodiness (crying a lot), alcohol abuse (drinking too much alcohol), emotional constriction (hiding emotions to act tough), and self-centeredness (acting selfishly).
(4) When we gave her a gift of a few books in English, she burst out crying.
(5) Postoperatively, an independent observer assessed conscious level, crying, posture and facial expression using a simple numerical scoring system, and also recorded heart and respiratory rates over a 2-h period.
(6) Antibodies with the CRI can be isolated by isoelectric focusing from selected mice that have produced a high concentration of the CRI.
(7) My mother told me not to cry.” He has since witnessed the transformation of Hagere Selam.
(8) Three infants reached pulse pressure values less than 1% of control when cries were sustained for nine cardiac cycles.
(9) One is to shoot them in the head and cry about the bloody aftermath.
(10) When the CTL nonresponder adult mice received CRI producer B lymphocytes, the nonresponder phenotype was not changed into the responder phenotype.
(11) At one point, shortly after Suárez had given them a 3-0 lead, a loud cry had gone up from the Liverpool end of "We're going to win the league".
(12) He made me laugh and cry, and his courage in writing about what he was going through was sometimes quite overwhelming.
(13) Insecure infant attachment at 16 months was associated with maternal perception of overcontrol, depressed mood state, and aversive conditioning to the impending cry in the laboratory task at the 5-month period.
(14) A week after the New York Film Critics Circle gave the movie its top award, a liberal political commentator wrote: "I'm betting that Dick Cheney will love [the film, which is] a far, far cry from the rousing piece of pro-Obama propaganda that some conservatives feared it would be."
(15) He'd thought: I can't ring, 'cos Harry's probably crying, and I can't quite deal with him crying on the phone."
(16) Studies of the stability of P1 plasmid in a P1 cry Escherichia coli lysogen have suggested a model for equipartition of plasmid copies.
(17) Kester said her daughter came and cried in her lap.
(18) With the Tories enjoying a persistent lead in the polls, the prime minister launched Labour's "Blair-plus" manifesto with a rallying cry to the party.
(19) Photograph: Peter Beaumont for the Guardian For his part the leader of Hadash, the veteran socialist party in Israel that emphasises Arab-Jewish cooperation, Odeh has now attracted a political star status most obvious on the stump in Lod on Wednesday in the repeated cries of “Ayman!” by shopkeepers and passersby keen to shake his hand or be photographed with him.
(20) Once I’d checked she was OK I said, ‘Stop crying now.’ ” So it’s about managing emotions: ‘I’m going to need you to get a grip.’” “If you’ve got interesting points to make about the devaluing of serious words like bullying and depression, why make them in a way that sounds like you’re ridiculing people who are suffering?” I ask.
Weeping
Definition:
(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Weep
(n.) The act of one who weeps; lamentation with tears; shedding of tears.
(a.) Grieving; lamenting; shedding tears.
(a.) Discharging water, or other liquid, in drops or very slowly; surcharged with water.
(a.) Having slender, pendent branches; -- said of trees; as, weeping willow; a weeping ash.
(a.) Pertaining to lamentation, or those who weep.
Example Sentences:
(1) Patients with bilateral forebrain disease may commonly manifest the syndrome of pathologic laughing and weeping.
(2) Pilgrims from all over the world, many weeping and clutching precious mementos or photographs of loved ones, jostle beneath its soaring domes every day.
(3) We report the emergence of an erythematous weeping rash with impending exfoliation three years after the initiation of minoxidil therapy.
(4) Abu Qatada's brothers, children and sisters remained on a court bench, some of the women weeping as journalists pressed against the courtroom cell to ask the Salafist leader about his views on Isis violence.
(5) Dan Heymann, a reluctant army conscript, wrote the brutally satirical Weeping for His Band Bright Blue .
(6) Quite a number of people brought up in the emotional straitjackets of the English upper classes found blessed relief in the permission the Holy Spirit gave them to weep or laugh and gibber and faint in public.
(7) Past reunions brought together weeping family members desperate for details and news.
(8) A Syrian man who was pictured weeping as he and his family reached the Greek island of Kos last month has arrived in Berlin, it has been reported.
(9) People were weeping in the streets outside, but once the fire was out everyone took stock a little bit.
(10) How was I expected to get through the night without weeping openly?
(11) That’s fine, that’s the great thing about being an artist – I’m not going to weep over their multimillion-pound suit trousers.” Grayson Perry: All Man concludes on Thursday 19 May at 10pm on Channel 4
(12) As measured by the Hospital Observed Behavior Scale, subjects in the intensive care unit exhibited apprehension, anxiety, detachment, sadness, and weeping more often than did patients in the ward.
(13) These genes do not appear to play a role in infection of weeping lovegrass because both parents and all progeny infect weeping lovegrass.
(14) Angry beyond belief, unable to control his weeping, he ran to the local governor's office to complain at this vicious injustice.
(15) If the football fans were like that, Emile Heskey would be an almost sacred figure and people would still be weeping about Peter Beardsley.
(16) He said she was weeping with shock but was not taken to hospital and instead was met by her boyfriend and taken to stay with her sister.
(17) Woe to you who laugh now, for you shall mourn and weep.” It’s not a sentiment reflected in ACL press releases, less concerned with warning the rich than fighting the queers.
(18) But for the most part, when I watch these marches on snowy Polish streets, with the familiar cadences of their chants, and when I hear old Lech Wałęsa say that “patriots must unite” to get rid of PiS by unspecified “clever, attractive and peaceful” means, I laugh with one eye and weep with the other.
(19) Although this form of application is a special presentation for the treatment of very dry dermatoses, patients with not so dry and weeping dermatoses were also treated in this trial, the object being to include the role played by the vehicle in the results of therapy.
(20) Only a short bus ride from Princes Street, it combines peace and tranquillity, a burbling stream, and autumn colours to make New England weep.