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  • a  free from tears

  • On business matters, however, Edgar Kaiser is eminently dry-eyed.
  • He might have added that the emotion would be a dry-eyed and somewhat mysterious melancholy.
  • Set in a darkling alternate-universe version of England, and told with dry-eyed, white-knuckled restraint, Never Let Me Go is an improbable masterpiece, a science fiction horror .
News & Articles

  • Ashland's Patty O'Neil wins 'The Hero'
    In a landslide vote, Ashland mom and salon assistant Patty O’Neil last night won TNT’s adventure series “The Hero” and $610,000. “We are partying tonight!” she exclaimed after being crowned the season one winner. She was remarkably dry-eyed. It could have been a first. (There was also the small expletive she unleashed upon hearing the news, but chalk that up to excitement.) The one-hour reunion ...
    Aug. 2, 2013 - Boston Herald
Quotes

  • Peggy Noonan in Miami Herald
    Afterwards I thought about the two presidents I had known. Ronald Reagan was emotionally moved by American history and the Founders, by the long sweep of history. Personal issues and relations left him more dry-eyed,Noonan wrote in The Wall...
  • Joan Acocella in Boston Globe (registration)
    Writer Joan Acocella, chairwoman of the medal selection committee, said the committee chose Munro to honor "the emotional largeness and the dry-eyed precision of her beautiful stories."

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