dissolve in tears

Before then, California political analyst Sherry Bebitch Jeffe said, “you didn’t see a woman take control the way she did, in an executive position. She didn’t dissolve in tears and scream and yell. She was in control. That added a lot to her ability to win when she did.”

“Within four hours, they were happy to lie to protect my brother,” Harry said, adding that the statement caused Meghan to dissolve in tears.

Certainly, if the writing were more nuanced and less bogged down by contemporary ideas about women’s roles — at one point, the movie shifts into a trauma-driven maternal melodrama — Davis would have far more to do than glower or dissolve in tears.

It’s one thing—one astonishing, mind-bending, soul-lifting thing—to hear Franklin’s 11-minute version of “Amazing Grace” on the album; another thing to watch her congregation dissolve in tears of rapture and joy; and yet another thing entirely to realize those same tears have streaked every face in your row, 46 years later.

It helps managers feel emotionally safe—assured that an employee isn’t going to erupt in a rage or dissolve in tears, says Dr. Woodward.