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Rob Whittaker, a consultant clinical psychologist, says waves of tearfulness among Covid-19 survivors are very common and there is "an emerging picture" regarding cognitive difficulties, such as Molly's problems with her memory.

From BBC • Jul. 12, 2020

He doesn’t love feeling that his critics are quick to attribute his intermittent displays of sentiment — a public moment of tearfulness or a flash of temper — to his past trauma.

From New York Times • Mar. 14, 2018

In fact, everything makes me cry right now; I have just resigned myself to a good few weeks of tearfulness.

From The Guardian • Apr. 26, 2016

In a role originally proposed to Angelina Jolie, Johansson grows from grad-student tearfulness to appropriate a good deal of Jolie’s glowering majesty, and to show all appropriate stages along the way.

From Time • Jul. 25, 2014

I no longer feel the sinking in my gut, the held-back tearfulness that such a false accusation would once have produced.

From "Cat's Eye" by Margaret Atwood