Naturally, if people didn't let tears unnerve them, becoming emotional wouldn't be a problem.
That young man didn't resort to tears, but he did spend the summer feeling left out and alone.
So why isn't anyone shedding any tears over the Dow's demise on Wall Street?
"I was in shock, I broke down in tears and didn't know what to say, " Daniel Del Regno told Argentine daily La Nacion.
And in case that seems to leave brawny manual labourers still sunk in tears, isn't it these same men who drive the trains, fight the fires and hold society in thrall to their skill at mending motors and fixing the plumbing?
Given this gruesome roll call, it is a wonder the Spaniard's mind isn't submerged by dread as he tears round the track but it is with a softer, more sensuous tone that Lorenzo explains his relationship with the motorbike that so often puts him in harm's way.
Some basketball players still don't want to go public with their tears.
WSJ: Handling the Bawl: March Madness Turns Into the Crying Game
Senator TRENT LOTT (Republican, Mississippi): I don't get why Republicans would be crying alligator tears over newspapers having problems.
Despite the cheers of the fans urging her on, Maze couldn't make up the time and finished with tears in her eyes.
Her eyes well with tears, but she doesn't allow them to fall, quickly wiping them away and biting her thumb like the vulnerable child she is.
" When he was offered the role by text, Gooding responded, in tears, "There aren't words.
Clinton deploys ideas, tears them up when they don't work and relaunches them.
CNN: Commentary: Clinton pick would be brilliant, but risky, move
"I just, it just all came out, tears of joy, I just couldn't stop shaking, " she said, laughing and crying at the same time.
"Danny had tears in his eyes, and I couldn't control myself, " Kapoor said.
He was in tears in the dressing room, he wasn't saying a lot.
"The tears which are shed are angry tears, because I feel angry that this didn't need to have happened, " she added.
"He has given so much to that jersey, and he is in tears in there now, I wish it wasn't Martyn, " said Young.
Fully titled "There Ain't No Sweet Man That's Worth the Salt of My Tears, " the track uses the classic disc (also 1928) by Paul Whiteman's Orchestra with Bix Beiderbecke and Bing Crosby as a starting point, with an unmistakably similar two-beat underpinning, a slow grind that makes it impossible to pin it down either rhythmically or chronologically.
"Now that I've lost my job, we can't even afford two square meals, " she says, breaking into tears.
Don't be surprised to see hard-bitten corporate executives and military officers with tears in their eyes as they watch their children's presentations.
"I didn't let anybody get close to me again, " Griffin said, holding back tears.
Ashford and Simpson are also credited as co-writers on Amy Winehouse's track, Tears Dry On Their Own, which contains a sample from Ain't No Mountain High Enough.
"It still hasn't sunk in, " said Carreiro's daughter Manuela, her eyes welling with tears.
"Don't say we can't laugh at ourselves, " says a local p.r. executive as she wipes tears from her eyes during a scene that could best be described as toilet humor encountering adolescent high spirits.
应用推荐