Sentence examples for capable of tenderness from inspiring English sources

Could she really have been capable of tenderness?

He is unflinching in his examination of torture, rape and gore, but is also capable of tenderness.

Day-Lewis conjures up a character of primeval energy, driven by greed and hunger for power, yet capable of tenderness as well as brutality.

Perillo is also capable of tenderness, writing of her father's work overseeing bricklayers, or, in a poem about ex-lovers, her "absent children's nondepletion of the ozone layer".

Capable of tenderness as well as of turbulence, it's a collective entity that explores every available option in the course of a performance.

What's exciting in a role like this, as with Lear or Richard III, is to try to show that this man is capable of tenderness and compassion, but has good reason to behave appallingly.

Though capable of great tenderness, Sei Shōnagon was often merciless in the display of her wit, and she showed little sympathy for those unfortunates whose ignorance or poverty rendered them ridiculous in her eyes.

He is as good here as I've heard him in a long time, capitalising now on his well-marinated vocal timbre, weathered and craggy but still capable of great tenderness in those ascents into honeyed head voice.

She was also capable of eroticism and tenderness; for example, in At Parting, written to Vivian, who joined the RAF during the second world war: "Since we through war awhile must part/ Sweetheart, and learn to lose/ Daily use/ Of all that satisfied our heart:/ Lay up those secrets and those powers/ Wherewith you pleased and cherished me these two years:/..

Repudiating the incorporeal, distant God that helped to generate the hierarchical associations of masculinity and femininity, he favors an image of "a tender loving Father who faces and embraces the child," in the apparent expectation that a loving and embodied God may support a different kind of masculinity, one more capable of intimacy and tenderness (1994, 240).

People who use violence are capable of love and tenderness.