Sad and misty-eyed.    From Wordnet, Princeton University. 

That's not sort of misty-eyed, rock star nonsense.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Dec 19, 2005] Reference

I'm gettin 'all misty-eyed just thinking about it.    From Wordnik.com.  [OWWWWWWWWW!!!!] Reference

Paul: (misty-eyed) Hull town centre, Friday night.    From Wordnik.com.  [FallNews] Reference

Makes me misty-eyed and want to break out in song.    From Wordnik.com.  [Bill Clinton Endorses Obama] Reference

I don't get misty-eyed for the days of bipartisanism.    From Wordnik.com.  [Washington's Blood Sport] Reference

But Laura Kopp, 18, had little to be misty-eyed about.    From Wordnik.com.  [GENERATION AMBIVALENT] Reference

I did get a little misty-eyed at times during the film.    From Wordnik.com.  [unclebob Diary Entry] Reference

See if you can watch it without getting a little misty-eyed.    From Wordnik.com.  [An American Tune] Reference

Am I the only person who doesn't like the misty-eyed moments?.    From Wordnik.com.  [Rasmussen: Obama Catching Up In Texas And Ohio] Reference

O'BRIEN: I believe she is positively misty-eyed in that piece.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Aug 3, 2006] Reference

           Rosalie nodded, mystified and misty-eyed.    From Wordnik.com.  [Tooth Decay] Reference

Taking his hand she stepped close to him, misty-eyed, atremble.    From Wordnik.com.  [Terry A Tale of the Hill People] Reference

She turned misty-eyed and a lump of emotion hardened in her throat.    From Wordnik.com.  [Angels and Outlaws]

Nor was the era as pure as misty-eyed nostalgics would have us believe.    From Wordnik.com.  [Hank and Willie: Candid Recollections] Reference

The following weeks see inboxes stuffed with poems and misty-eyed emoticons.    From Wordnik.com.  [What They Meant] Reference

In delivering the news he was never far from a meltdown or misty-eyed moment.    From Wordnik.com.  [Jay Rosen: Rather Unbound] Reference

Many people spoke of their love for Troy, growing misty-eyed about its beauty.    From Wordnik.com.  [Shield of Thunder]

I don't mind admitting that I was misty-eyed as I watched Obama make his entrance.    From Wordnik.com.  [The moment] Reference

"Still becoming misty-eyed over the Morts?" came a sardonic voice from behind him.    From Wordnik.com.  [Darkness of the Light] Reference

So, this is the good old states 'rights world we're supposed to get misty-eyed for.    From Wordnik.com.  [Pete Cenedella: Gay Marriage: The View from Post-Everything America] Reference

So yeah, I'm sitting here getting misty-eyed at the scent of alcohol on Ryan's breath.    From Wordnik.com.  [jaxraven Diary Entry] Reference

My most surprising moments come when I meet a woman who gets misty-eyed, seeing my belly.    From Wordnik.com.  [Stephanie Sandberg: Pregnant Pause: Seven Months In] Reference

I must say I got a little misty-eyed when our survivors got to meet their families again.    From Wordnik.com.  [Jay Glatfelter: On Lost: "There's No Place Like Home Part 1"] Reference

Was a little misty-eyed at times during the morning, but by the afternoon I was over that.    From Wordnik.com.  [There's Plenty Of Fish In The Sea] Reference

I used to see my father get misty-eyed at the National Anthem or at other patriotic songs.    From Wordnik.com.  [Saying Goodbye] Reference

It is easier for them to go misty-eyed about Venezuela under the red beret of Hugo Chávez.    From Wordnik.com.  [How the Left Can Rise Again] Reference

This reporter turns to me and says: "You know, isn't" -- misty-eyed -- "isn't he wonderful?".    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript - Larry King Live: What's So Funny About Politics? - December 20, 2000] Reference

The next day I saw him there in the sun and, misty-eyed, gave him one last dropper of water.    From Wordnik.com.  [When Nature is Nurture] Reference

And of course, I'm sort of misty-eyed with nostalgia of the good old days of a budget surplus.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Jan 19, 2002] Reference

I have gone there myself and felt hard to report from there without getting a little misty-eyed.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Aug 10, 2008] Reference

'I brought him down with one shot,' he slurred, misty-eyed with nostalgia bordering on the maudlin.    From Wordnik.com.  [Civvies]

We could rifle through history and find many a world leader who has had a misty-eyed public moment.    From Wordnik.com.  [Lee Woodruff: Damned if She Does] Reference

They are both self-styled change agents who have little patience for misty-eyed romantics or effete, brooding snobs.    From Wordnik.com.  [30 Rock's Hard Rocker] Reference

PETERS: Yeah, Joe, I've often said that I've never see a politician getting misty-eyed cutting a ribbon on a maintenance project.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Aug 12, 2007] Reference

She cried during her first acceptance speech, was misty-eyed during her performance of "Because of You," was emotional backstage.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Feb 08, 2006] Reference