without tears
Meaning
without tears
(figuratively) Presented so as to be easy to learn.
Examples
I might be better able to help parents of dying children, but for quite a while I felt less able, too emotionally involved. And from that time on, I could rarely discuss the death of a child without tears welling up into my eyes.
If looks could kill, they probably will In games without frontiers - war without tears.
In youth, one has tears without grief; in age, grief without tears.