He nodded tearfully at Mears's blanketed body.

He nodded tearfully.

The Sister nodded tearfully, clearly terrified by what she was doing, yet knowing she had no choice but to do it.

Karys nodded tearfully, denying him.

Boofuls nodded tearfully and wiped his eyes with the back of his hand.

She nodded tearfully.

Mrs. Chaffery, with a keen eye to Lewisham's behaviour, nodded tearfully over an experienced handkerchief.

Mrs. Darnell nodded tearfully.

An early egregious example was Cold Case where it became compulsory for the last few minutes to be a maudlin ballad-accompanied slow motion scene where the ghost of the long-dead victim tearfully nods their gratefulness to the policewoman heroine for, well, doing the job she was paid for.

"Well, we were going to, you know, but he had to get through college first-and then when I learned I was-" "He disappeared," Oriene finished, and Rita nodded tearfully.