fake tears

The subtle feature helps to further blur the audience’s perception of M3GAN’s sentience — but it required fake tears to be administered to ensure her smooth, human-like remote controlled blinking while the cameras were rolling.

“Now you want to make it seem like I’m doing it again without your control. All those fake tears. Your fans trusting you to be honest and sincere but it’s all fake for the cameras. I was playing my part until you started doing all of this!”

Donald Trump long ago forfeited the benefit of the doubt, and it’s been tiresome to watch another round of supplicants rushing to wipe his fake tears.

I’m really curious: What was Anthopoulos thinking about to coax out those fake tears?

During his testimony, Chaffee County Undersheriff Andy Rohrich said Morphew appeared to have "crocodile tears, like fake tears," when he arrived at the scene where his wife's bicycle was discovered.