Sentence examples for Tender old from inspiring English sources

It was set to the melody of both a tender old country song of separated lovers, I'm Thinking Tonight of My Blue Eyes, and – even more incongruously – Roy Acuff's scriptural hit of the 30s, The Great Speckled Bird.

Braised veal shank ($34) This tender, old-fashioned veal braise is off the menu at the moment, but it will most likely return because it has already become a favorite at Alison Eighteen.

"There is nothing more violent or tender than old Portuguese tales.

Vegetables cultivated for eating — broccoli, baby mesclun or even a whole head of lettuce — are typically picked before they complete their reproductive cycle; young and tender, not old and seedy.

The Israeli Housing Ministry defended itself by insisting that the tenders were old and were simply being re-marketed.

They vary from swift and balletic to tender lyricism, old-fashioned march, perpetuum mobile, waltz and a poignant musical portrait of the singer Édith Piaf.

This means that he will spend his day thrusting newspapers at fashionably dressed men and women who brush past as though he were tendering day-old mackerel.

In "Dorothy," the most affecting, she portrays with a delicate touch and tender attentiveness an old woman with big glasses who slumps glumly in a chair.

The conventional wisdom has it that Benedict's resignation sharply reduced the aura of the papal office, showed a tender realism about old age, and made clear that even ancient Catholic practices could be changed.

She was withdrawn from active service in 1904, when she resumed her old tender duties.

This Wisconsin Boy, a tender nineteen years old, had only just moved to Philadelphia.