Townshend told her that she had made him weep.
Inside, the smell of warm food almost made him weep.
Arnon Milchan, the head of New Regency, told Aronofsky that the film had made him weep.
But he did recently find time for Henry Marsh's Do No Harm and said it made him weep.
In the last movement of Beethoven's String Quartet in B-flat Major, Opus 130, for example, an emotionally charged piece that Beethoven said made him weep, the key suddenly changes to C-flat major.
A child's unselfconscious joie de vivre affects him, an encounter with an ex-lover makes him weep and, most of all, a song – written by Mark Eitzel and heard in a cafe – awakens something in him.
Before that comes the Cavatina, said by the composer's violinist friend, Karl Holz, to be Beethoven's favourite work, though it made him weep fresh tears as he wrote it.
The public was thrilled by it too: among the hundreds of letters Clark received were several from would-be suicides who wrote that he had given them a reason for going on (they made him weep).
Keats's planet "swims" also because tears have moistened the astronomer's eyes, just as Coleridge, in "Frost at Midnight," recalls his misery at school, "mine eye / Fixed with mock study on my swimming book" when homesickness made him weep.
Adam Smith, whose days had been filled with thoughts of markets and economics and who had coined an entire science, had his stone here, more impressive than this; but this was the one that made him weep".
