1.   But many in this tough city looked upon those public tears as a sign not of weakness but of strength.

2.   Clinton has shown himself to be a master of the public tear, of public compassion, of family rhetoric.

3.   Elian has gone home...but...the auto-hysterical cousin Marisleysis is still shedding public tears.

4.   To many observers, his public tears looked like an acknowledgement of the daunting task ahead, and his concern that his supporters may lose patience.

5.   With her public tears and her flouting of royal conventions, Diana was the epitome of that shift in the national psyche.

6.   With shattered VCRs and handwritten notes passed between locker stalls, and sometimes with public tears.