Sentence examples for Lack of tenderness from inspiring English sources

Both men corrupt Gabrielle in their pathetic fashion, but it is the larger world, with its cruelties, pettiness and lack of tenderness, that almost does her in.

Now, writing under the guise of friendship, Hazzard was complaining of Greene's misogyny, his "will to hurt, humiliate, ridicule", and his lack of tenderness.

There's one fact that perhaps explains Finland's lack of tenderness to wolves: its human population of 5.5 million includes 300,000 hunters.

Recalling a lack of tenderness from his mother, he writes: "Still today, when a woman refuses to touch or caress me, I suffer atrociously... Till my death, I'll remain an abandoned little child".

The mere experience of hearing them sing with such mastery made up for a lack of tenderness or subtlety, which was plentifully supplied by the top-drawer supporting cast of Brangäne (Anne Sofie von Otter, intelligent and vigilant), the wise, wronged King Marke Matthew Bestt) and, most affecting of all, Jukka Rasilainen as Kurwenal, troubled, faithful and rigid with grief.

Physical examination showed a lack of tenderness at the level of the stress fracture; final ROM of the affected knee was 0 120°.

"In her dream her husband came to her and said, 'Thank you, Lida, for burying me.' " With this visitation, Petrushevskaya conjures a stark and unbreakable bond, all the more powerful in its lack of false tenderness.

However, lack of RUQ tenderness is probably weaker than this for excluding acute cholecystitis when studies are adjusted for verification and spectrum bias.

It should be noted that the low weighted kappa values may result from using manual measurements and four examiners, and not necessarily because of a lack of clustering of tenderness.

The abusive void and lack of love and tenderness in Jeanette's childhood was balanced by access to and a deep passion for literature.

"I was hooked on his life, his music, his imagination, his passion and attention, his tall tales, his fury, his lies, his caresses, his extravagances, his lack of caution, his tenderness when he loved me" is all she is able to tell us, apart from insisting that somehow her inner core always remained intact.