Sentence examples for A tender memory from inspiring English sources

HITCH-22: A Memoir, by Christopher Hitchens (Twelve, $26.99). When the colorful, prolific journalist shares a tender memory, he quickly converts it into a larger observation about politics, always for him the most crucial sphere of moral and intellectual life.

(Would it be primitive to say that he seems so English in this way, though he's become an American citizen?) When he shares a tender memory, his preference is to quickly convert it into a larger political observation; for him, politics remains the most crucial sphere of moral and intellectual life.

For another, he volunteers a touchingly tender memory of meeting me on holiday in Scotland more than 30 years ago.

Best known for "A Christmas Tale" and "My Sex Life … or How I Got Into an Argument" and a bigger name in France than in the U.S., Desplechin has crafted a warm and tender memory film, both intoxicating and insightful, inspired by the life-changing intensity of his teenage first love.

I'll say, "Tell us a story about heartbreak," and someone breaks all of our hearts with his tender memory of a long ago, lost love.

It's like a small firecracker, a revelatory moment or a tender adolescent memory: it can only appear briefly without losing its lightning beauty.

The elegiac aspect of the Elgar operates on us like a film score, framing the action as if in tender memory.

Virtually all musicians have a similar story surrounding their first high-quality instrument, and for many guitarists, that tender memory revolves around the Stratocaster.

Her most tender memory of her father involves the study of anatomy, "his strong fingers tracing the lines of muscles and bones on my small foot".

Raised in Quebec and at home in French, he breaks out in Gallic song when recalling the tender memory of his boyhood bedtime vigil.

Rather than a contract photographer sitting on the stage speaking of his job, Souza embodied an old family friend recounting tender memories.