Sentence examples for smiling through tears from inspiring English sources

"Yeah," says the woman, smiling through tears.

I watched it, smiling, through tears of genuine pride".

"Smiling Through Tears" by Pamela Freyd and Eleanor Goldstein, Upton Books, Boca Raton, Fla. 1998.

"It's a new beginning; it feels like home — they helped make it feel like home," Ms. Martinez said, smiling through tears.

Smiling through tears, friends and relatives recounted how Malenny, a good student at Public School 30, helped her family behind the counter at the grocery store.

For more than a decade, Jennifer Aniston has been the undisputed champion of smiling through tears, but, with "Bridesmaids," Kristen Wiig entered the ring as a worthy challenger.

Where the Romantics used to smile through tears, Ligeti cries through smiles.

"Lots of people can laugh on cue, or cry on cue, or smile through tears on cue," he said.

They smiled through tears when they talked about the scenes on the television news of bombing in Afghanistan.

In a performance of unforgiving intensity, Manze transformed the partita into a five-act monodrama of grief, in which the turn toward D major halfway through sounded like a failed attempt to smile through tears (big double-stopped chords came haltingly and effortfully) and the last statement of the theme became an X-ray of a spent and vacant heart.

I screamed as their bodies exited mine then smiled through tear-filled eyes when I saw their beautiful faces.