The phrase "a tender expression" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe a gentle or affectionate look or gesture, often conveying warmth or compassion.
Example: "She looked at him with a tender expression, her eyes filled with love and understanding."
Alternatives: "a gentle look" or "a loving gaze".
But soon after Oliver, dressed all in black, unceremoniously took the stage in the Axis's low-ceilinged performance space and looked out at the audience with a tender expression, my smugness began to shift.
Still, the song that challenges "What Am I to You?" as the CD's highlight is "Don't Miss You at All," a tender expression of loss and need that Jones wrote to the music of Duke Ellington's "Melancholia". This is no more a perfect album than "Come Away With Me," but its highlights again carry the stamp of a singer whose talent is strong and whose vision is true.
She gazed at her phone with a contemplative, tender expression.
One, a pure-white heifer, with a particularly mild and tender expression, the other a green-faced man who is neither young nor old.
His music always had its grandiose side, which was now tending to take over, though in the St Cecilia Mass it holds a satisfying balance with the intimate and tender expression that would give him his place in musical history.
Using memories of maternal love and the archetype of the divine child as the basis for much of his tender expression, Ohno frequently reduced his audience to tears.
In "Pensieri, voi mi tormentate," from "Agrippina," with its gorgeous oboe solo (played with tender expression by Meg Owens), Ms. Gould's intonation was painfully out of sync with the instrument.
For Mirror Cells, a 2016 group exhibition at The Whitney Museum of American Art that included the artist, McCarthy said, "I'm interested in understanding the human experience and condition, continually coming back to questions and preoccupations with time, death, and reconciling who am I, who are all these people?" In McCarthy's poetry and art, there is genuine soulful, even tender, expression.
He had a joy for carnality that could be equalled by his tender expressions of life's more bittersweet fruits, and shook up Canadian sensibilities in the 1950s and 1960s.
She reserved her most tender expressions of affection for cats and other small, furry animals.
But it is a letter to his son Nicholas, who would also take his own life years later, that stands out as one of the most tender expressions of paternal love and encapsulates Hughes's sentiments: "The only thing people regret is that they didn't live boldly enough... didn't love enough.
