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sob sister
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sob sister
journalist who handles advice to lovelorn column. [Am. Journalism: Brewer Dictionary, 1016]
See : Sentimentality
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But the journalistic sob sisters have been out this week to scold.
It's car-crash TV ... and I love it! by Birmingham Mail (England)
More recently, Prince William was taking some stick from the media over his flippant use of the air force and louche lifestyle - but all was forgiven by the sob sisters of Fleet Street when he took a leaf out of Liberace's book and told us how much he missed his mother.
I bet Oedipus never took his mother out for a pub lunch... and he ... by South Wales Echo (Cardiff, Wales)
Male screenwriters, perhaps worded that these sob sisters were too independent and too feisty for the times, would make sure that, by the final reel, these self-sufficient females would succumb to love, longing for what 1930s audiences were sure every woman really wanted--a man, marriage, and children.
Frank Capra and the image of journalists in American film. ... by Saltzman, Joe / USA Today (Magazine)
 
 
 
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