Anthony Minghella, the director of "Truly Madly Deeply" and "The English Patient," among other movies, is a romantic and a tenderhearted fellow.
(In all Drabble's fiction, from the tenderhearted if exhausted young mothers of the early novels to the doting grandmother Frieda of "The Witch of Exmoor," young children and infants are unassailable symbols of the Good).
As long as one mutt-fancier from the tenderhearted West caught sight of the romping beagle and exclaimed to her husband, "Oh, look at little Snu Pi! See, they don't eat them, they play with them!," the committee's job was done.
Also out today is "Epilepsy Is Dancing," by Antony & the Johnsons, the critically-beloved band led by Antony Heagarty, a singer and songwriter who has garnered critical acclaim for his tenderhearted songs.
But then, at the most unexpected moments, a tenderhearted sympathy, raw and sudden, would rise in him, and he would plunge his face into my neck, sniff deeply and kiss, tickling me with his mustache.
Colleen's incomprehension of the changing world — not to mention of the edicts of Catholicism, in which she grew up believing — makes her so bewildered and tenderhearted that you just want to cuddle her, to provide a safe place for her to have a lie-down as the world turns outside her darkened window, sad and unknowable.
Have you ever considered, I asked him, given how tenderhearted your sister was, and how brave, that she looked at the whole situation?
The author achieved, silhouetted against this brightly lit portrait of a heedless life, a self-portrait, that of a tenderhearted, even-tempered, calmly dedicated artist who, as Grealy put it, is "always going to be fine".
Franklin's brainchild was tenderhearted, henpecked, and witless.
But in the way that Knausgaard writes about falling in love, he sounds much more like Tolstoy — or a more tenderhearted, and less bawdy, version of Roth or Bellow — than Ferrante.
The world of New York City private schools is often portrayed as a cutthroat, almost Hobbesian place, but there is a tenderhearted side to it as well.
