Something about the latter version - with its strange sense of ineloquent desire - was enough to provoke tears.

Simply entering and offering a stimulus could provoke argument, disagreement and even tears.

Its power provoked tears and anger among thousands of Puerto Ricans who saw their families in the five.

But sometimes, the worries, the knots in her stomach, the telephone calls from friends and other mothers and television images provoke tears she cannot stop.

In the interview room, when she was asked a question that provoked tears, she smiled and said, "I'd rather have a 3-footer."

Comedy was no longer to provoke laughter, but tears.

A poor man or a slave is a matter of indifference to them, and even a chieftain will provoke no sadness or tears.

But the rule provoked only tears of frustration at a gourmet-food catalogue house, Mr. White noted.

So I went, doubting the show would provoke tears but longing to listen to Woolf.

Uncle Eugenio would get mad with frustration, utterly unable to find the words to refute the fact that illusions might provoke real tears.