Sentence examples for a tender one from inspiring English sources

This is a deeply affecting book, and despite its gritty prose, colourful language and hardboiled trappings, a tender one, its sustained undertow of tenderness and melancholy giving it a surprising delicacy.

Tender refers to frost tolerance: a hardy plant can take frost, a tender one cannot.

David R. Gergen, who worked in the Nixon, Ford, Reagan and Clinton White Houses, called the subject a "tender" one.

Nona Willis Aronowitz: I think it's really great how the show doesn't make clear whether adam is a "good" or "bad" boyfriend – we've discovered he's a tender one in some ways, but clearly has a lot to learn just about human interaction in general.

With so much sorrow about, there is special pleasure to be found in Charles Castronovo's Dolce Napoli (King's Head, Islington, London *****), a tender, one-hour tribute to the music of the American tenor's Italian ancestors, squeezed around Castronovo's Covent Garden commitments as Tamino.

When you cook courgettes, a lot of that juice is released and the way you cook them makes all the difference between a watery plateful and a deliciously tender one.

Annamma Jacob, who buys imported Tang, Quaker Oats and Kikkoman soy sauce at the market, said she liked picking out a live bird herself, preferably a small, tender one.

Rauschenberg has both a violent side and an extremely tender one; the two clasp one another as the right hand clasps the left.

If I do a kind and tender one, I might want to do a mean one.

The story it tells is a small and tender one and the staging and the music, playful and lovely, sometimes struggle to fill the house.

Scented with tarragon, a luscious chunky lobster mixture filled a tube of cannelloni, tender on one try but thick and heavy on another; and crab meat salad with a wonderful mixed herb salad was watery on one visit but perfect on another.