But for all the nostalgia - the surprise dessert, a chocolate-cake reproduction of the ship, evoked cheers and tears - the family members showed they could still needle one another.

However, for Americans of African descent, that castle could evoke only bitterness and tears.

I've always been able to evoke tears on demand.

From vastly divergent directions, they evoke legitimate tears in both films.

Often it evokes tears.

Words spoken aloud paint pictures capable of evoking laughter and tears, the whole range of emotion.

Mordaunt Hall of the New York Times called it "a merry tale with touches of sentiment, a picture which evoked laughter and tears from an audience at the first showing."

The polished voices rang like musical instruments in the hall, evoking tears or laughter at will.

Tragedy can have its own triste beauty, evoking tears or laughter.

There are songs about lovers and orphans, about the Old World, about parents, songs that evoke laughter and prompt tears.