Word: tearless
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...best in the crunch. When disaster struck in Dallas on Nov. 22, 1963, those who saw her said she was tearless, perhaps spacy, "with a 50-yard stare." But she knew what she had to do to fulfill her commitment to her husband, her children and her country. Her bright pink suit was soiled with blood and gray matter, but she would not change it or leave John F. Kennedy's body...
...ones do not build them as good as the oldtimers." Below, the river ran shallow, clear and green. Beyond sprawled the lion-toned territory. Everywhere else was a deep-blue sky like an inverted bowl; everywhere, that is, but along the terribly littered bank. Atencio gave the trash a tearless but disgusted eye. Tourists had not been responsible for the beer cans, the dead radios, the broken whisky bottles and the rump-sprung chairs. The Indian knew that. Standing there by the mess, gray hair pulled back into a ponytail, he recalled a cleaner season. His youth had preceded plumbing...
...confrontation between Julia and Herman's mother that climaxes in a screaming match of racial slurs--Gonsalves delivers some of her most powerful lines upstage, her back to the audience; still she commands the scene. After her fight with Herman's mother, Gonsalves' face explodes in a mask of tearless rage that emphasizes the disgust she feels toward whites and toward herself...
Part of the problem is that little Damien has miraculously aged almost a decade in the two years since we left him tearless at his parents' grave, a nominal orphan at five. That angelic-looking child - so hard to believe Satan had anything to do with him! - is now a broody cadet in a military school. Though the deviltry goes somewhat further than short-sheeting the beds or spreading rumors about saltpeter in the food, there is still not enough contrast between Damien's visible aspect and his true nature to make him either lively or ironic...
...remorse? Is he, perhaps, more in love with Julia than he lets on, enough to want to soften the blow of his departure? Is it possible that he wants to bring a little fleshly warmth into Lacey's loveless and lonely life? Finally, as we see the ashen, tearless desolation on Lacey's face after Perew leaves, must we not wonder if they are two latent homosexuals...