Sentence examples for a 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.

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.

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

Here, he takes an unproduced script by the late Jacques Tati and whisks it into a tender ode to old-world artistry.

That same year Calliope became a tender to, an older and larger armoured cruiser used as seagoing training ship for boys.

Adapted by Mr. Osborn from a novel by Lawrence Edward Watkin, "On Borrowed Time" thoughtfully contemplates the necessity of death while providing a tender portrait of an old man's abiding love for his grandson.

WHITE PLAINS — Through tears and moments of laughter, Maria Rashford stood before hundreds of mourners at Our Lady of Sorrows Roman Catholic Church here on Wednesday and offered a tender portrait of her older brother, Steven Ercolino, who was shot to death on Friday in the shadow of the Empire State Building.

Teenage girls in slums very often fall victim to sexual harassment, which compelled their helpless parents to marry them off at a tender age says 13-year-old Silvia living in a slum at Chankharpul, in the old part of Dhaka.

While boarding a tender for an excursion, an older man said to my sister and me, "You're wonderful dancers".

It is a tender subject for the Hellfighters' older generation, men like General Phillips, who can recall when white people started to join the regiment in numbers.