Sentence examples for awkward tenderness from inspiring English sources

He recorded scenes of awkward tenderness.

His monologues include moments of awkward tenderness, such as when he talks about his wife: "I held her hand sometimes, it felt like the flank of a dog".

Even though Mr. Ball tries to humanize the men by showing their capacity for an awkward tenderness, the movie's underlying attitude is that all men are dogs, especially when faced with virginal teenage flesh.

These images evoke the early work of Andy Warhol, Lucian Freud and David Hockney, as well as recent paintings by Sarah McEneaney, who records her own life with similar awkward tenderness.

On the road from Bermondsey (in southeast London) to the seaside town of Margate are four men -- Ray Bob Hoskinss), Vic (Tom Courtenay, Lenny David Hemmings and Vince Ray Winstonetone) -- and they're traveling out of respect for an old pal, Jack Michael Cainee), gone now, packed in the fancy urn they carry with awkward tenderness.

So you've got an outlandish plot, cartoon silhouettes for characters, an awkward script and embarrassing tenderness.

And though it teases out the usual horror movie sensations of dread and anxiety and eyes-averted disgust, this movie also makes a direct and disarming play for affection, eliciting in viewers something akin to the awkward, resilient tenderness that is its subject.

As well as Beltran swung the bat at the close of last year — he stopped playing Sept. 28 because of knee tenderness — he also looked tentative and awkward at times in the outfield, almost unsure of where the walls were.

Although Tracy warms to an awkward boy in her class (Matthew Shear), and they earn a few tender moments, the tenderness is snapped by a single shot, in which she sees him holding hands with another girl.

There are bright points; a few awkward lines that give rise to big laughs, scenes of real tenderness between Gleeson and Nighy.

Hate tenderness.