Winston Churchill, a model of doughty courage and total refusal to surrender, went among the common people in World War II, openly weeping when he saw dreadful sights during the Blitz, and observers tell us he was unashamed by his tears.
One of the most tragic photographs of the Spanish civil war shows a woman weeping over the bloodied corpse of her husband after General Francisco Franco's rightwing rebels had bombed the Catalan city of Lleida in 1937.
For the 1997 Venice Biennale, Ms. Abramovic sat inside a pavilion amid a nightmarish heap of bloody cow bones that evoked fresh memories of the Bosnian war across the Adriatic, weeping in the rising stench for six days while she scrubbed them white.
In a voice filled with sweet melancholy and stately passion, Niamh Parsons sings traditional Irish songs of love and war, making ancient tales of weeping maidens and homesick sailors sound tender and immediate.
"Curse the gods and their war," the civilian says, quite sensibly, weeping.
She remembers a teacher weeping at what she knew about the war years the destruction, the camps which German schoolbooks made no mention of at the time.
But I had to make him realise, 'Darling this is not your fault – it's the legacy of war in your family.' " By this stage Kevin is weeping.
While Columbia had often been depicted as emotionally flat — smiling benignantly or weeping for a fallen hero — the prospect of war and the beginning of hostilities infused her with fire in defense of the Union.
26 Tom Hanks $44 million Hanks may have helped save Private Ryan, but by weeping on the battlefield in this DreamWorks blockbuster war drama, there may be no saving the Best Actor competition come Oscar time.
Some of you may be weeping uncontrollably after I tell you that Far Cry 2, Tom Clancy's End War and Brothers In Arms: Hell's Highway is being delayed until sometime in Q2 and I'm sorry for that.
