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One or two news photos would show her with swollen eyes, but tearless.
From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 4, 2022
“Death of the self in a long, tearless night, / All natural shapes blazing unnatural light.”
From The New Yorker • Mar. 20, 2019
It might also be the succinct user’s manual for this meandering, deliberate and tearless — yet oddly moving — western vehicle, which is both slow and, as gunslinger movies tend to be, action packed.
From Washington Post • May 20, 2015
But when I described his pale complexion and tearless cries to our new pediatrician over the phone, she ordered us to the emergency room, warning that dehydration in babies was extremely dangerous.
From Slate • Apr. 3, 2013
Helene took it better than most of our class fellows, stoic and tearless while the rest of us whimpered.
From "An Ember in the Ashes" by Sabaa Tahir
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