without tears
(figuratively) Presented so as to be easy to learn.
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. C. Everett Koop
If looks could kill, they probably will In games without frontiers - war without tears. Peter Gabriel
In youth, one has tears without grief; in age, grief without tears. French Proverb