Especially in its partnered duets, the portrait of male behavior is compelling, by turns aggressive, tender, and downright silly, as the boys run up the walls, bounce on a trampoline, and work up to a booty-slapping finale.
Its scope is both ambitious and modest; its range aggressive and tender.
She is by turns sarcastic, apathetic, funny, tender, aggressive, paranoid.
The leaves were bitter like green dandelion, but less aggressive, and as tender as a sprout.
His sound was steely in the aggressive outbursts yet tender in wistfully lyrical moments, like the middle of the slow movement, where a theme of folk-music simplicity appears.
See "Nobody Asked Me (If I Was Okay)" — which turns lashing out into a sticky, moody song — from her bracing, aggressive and surprisingly tender debut album, "Night Time, My Time" (Capitol).
Instead, though recontextualized within a contemporary dance sensibility, the austerely beautiful "H3" captures something of hip-hop's essential nature: its aggressive yet oddly tender relationships (the all-male cast of nine is superb); its strict behavioral codes offered in defiance of a larger culture; its inward-boring, almost ritualistic intensity.
The pose has already been established in Let's Get It On, on which Gaye was hot, tender, aggressive, soothing and casually raunchy the modern lover with all his contradictions.
Some parts of the album are catchy and aggressive, others melancholy and tender.
There is no explicit sex here (the movie is rated PG), but enough of the implicit kind, alternately tender and aggressive, to make you squirm.
