Hannah attracted critical acclaim with his first novel, "Geronimo Rex," which was nominated for a National Book Award in 1972, a book that established him as a serious literary talent capable of stringing together tender, haunting sentences where peculiar words whir around each other, colliding unexpectedly.
He really goes for it: he is funny, pathetic, maudlin, capable of frightening rage, heartbreakingly tender, and the other actors hastily raise their game in response.
"Mr. Williams is a stirring and tender playwright, capable of doing some things with prose that are beyond any other writer in English, and there seems no good reason for intruding into the problems of an irreplacable dramatist who may be in a technically difficult spot".
Plant was, however, capable of a broader stylistic range, including tender ballads ("The Rain Song") and songs showing the influence of Indian and Arabic vocal styles ("Kashmir").
Now, in my early thirties, to my chagrin I have never experienced the kind of tender, scholarly love that Princeton men, and only Princeton men, are capable of.
During 1977 the Navy sought tenders for an aircraft carrier capable of operating Harrier Jump Jets and helicopters.
But it is Peake who holds the evening together and who seems capable of embracing within herself male and female, tough and tender, vengeful and vulnerable.
The railway had about 30 steam locomotives, most of them six coupled, that ran with four-wheeled tenders with two water butts, each capable of holding 600 gallons of water.
Durham were encouraged to build a ground capable of hosting international cricket; then they found they had to tender for those matches in an increasingly competitive market.
When Jesse's capable of caring about anything or anyone, he's kind and tender to those with less power and less money, and he thinks he's entirely undeserving of the protected status his money has brought him.
