We get a collection of scenes on either edge: Natalie Portman's big tears watering the deck of a Malibu beach house, Bale's character seeking self-knowledge (like Tony Soprano before him) among the Joshua trees as the sun comes up.
The sky over yonder is breathless blue and clear as tear water.
Mr. Coventry said Australia's plastic, a nonporous, thin polymer sheath, resists tearing, water, sweat, oil and bacteria.
Throughout the tale, she does almost nothing for herself besides producing enough tears to water a cotton field.
Her hearing becomes impaired, her eyes drop tears with water rising, and, as the narrator tells us, she "succumbs" to "a battlefield of degraded privacy, loneliness, terror".
The purpose of eye drops is to flush the eye in the absence of tears or water.
Police attempted to control the protesters with tear gas, water cannons, and rubber bullets.
Some police vehicles were damaged, and the police eventually used tear gas, water cannons and sticks to disperse the crowd.
Security forces cracked down with tear gas, water cannons and, ultimately, live rounds, human rights activists say.
The police used tear gas, water cannons and clubs against demonstrators staging nationwide protests over government social and economic policies.
