tear-stained

The germ of an edgy fantasia about an isolated pop icon’s ego death is swimming somewhere in the DNA of “Hurry Up Tomorrow,” but it’s been flattened into a superficial, tear-stained pity party.

His face was tear-stained and his eyes swollen in the postrace news conference, but O’Ward was stoic.

I woke up with a sweaty forehead and tear-stained cheeks.

Watkins bowed her head on the table to hide her own tear-stained cheeks.

His album “Come On Joe,” released by RCA in 1987, contained four Top 40 country singles, including “No More One More Time,” a lovelorn ballad, and the rollicking “Tear-Stained Letter,” both of which reached the country Top 10 in 1988.