1.   For months, maybe years, she was given to ferocious fits of temper and dark hours filled with brooding, followed by crying jags.

2.   He became increasingly depressed, sometimes going on long crying jags.

3.   She plays a woman going through all manner of emotional turmoil without ever stooping to cheap sentimentality or catchall crying jags.

4.   It has meant weeks of anxiety, sleepless nights, crying jags.