The phrase "acts of tenderness" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe gentle, caring actions or behaviors that show affection or kindness towards someone.
Example: "In times of distress, small acts of tenderness can make a significant difference in someone's emotional well-being."
Alternatives: "gestures of kindness" or "displays of affection".
His tortured relationship with his estranged father drives him to acts of tenderness but also to alcoholic despair.
Those small acts of tenderness towards the fragile, unmasked hero at the center of the story that's the real gutpuncher to the heart.
For all its harshness, "The Angel on the Roof" is studded with surprising, hard-won acts of tenderness and decency, which feel more like operations of earthly grace than projections of authorial sentiment.
"For all its harshness, 'The Angel on the Roof' is studded with surprising, hard-won acts of tenderness and decency," A. O. Scott wrote in these pages last year.
Ms. Pomodore is a skilled prosecutor, but to paint the late Mr. Sheehan in anything but the darkest colors required her to uncoil his acts of tenderness from his violence, an impossible task unless the children — and friends and co-workers, a banker, a sanitation worker, a school security guard and a secretary — were treated as liars and fabulists.
My editor in Birmingham sometimes objects to quirks of accent or wording (questioning my use of the word "turlit" for "toilet," a panel featuring pantsing), and the Charlottesville paper recently declined to run a particularly filthy strip called "X-Rated Acts of Tenderness".
"Sure," Lang says chuckling, "yes, why not?" Fillette means "young girl," and she intends it as lightly as she carries it; as an act of tenderness, without irony.
Experience and innocence, the "black buck" and the light-skinned girl, are elements of a single racist trope, whose tensions well up in every act of tenderness: And then you were fourteen, and you had grown a glorious steel cock under your skirt.
How can it possibly be an act of tenderness to engage in the distasteful act of disassociation from a close blood relation, especially a father who bestows name and lineage?
The climax of these narratives necessarily involves a moment in which "the hero treats the heroine to some supreme act of tenderness, and she realizes that his apparent emotional indifference was only the mark of his hesitancy about revealing the extent of his love for and dependence upon her".
I've seen some depressing things, but also, especially in this hospital, acts of great tenderness.
