Sentence examples for could be tender from inspiring English sources

He could be tender and adventurous, and had an unerring eye for beautiful things.

Sexual specifics that Thompson confided by letter to Schorer's discretion can now be broadcast: She summed up Lewis's problem as premature ejaculation due to nervousness: "He could be tender, playful, delightful with women except in the sexual relationship".

But if a subject had his sympathies, he could be tender and protective, as in his dignified 1925 portrait of his friend the writer, hunchback and dandy Max HerMaxn-Neisse.

It could be tender and funny, but that would require the improvisers to use their imagination, whereas here, they care more about whether the female half of the couple is going to "put out".

Freud's portrait of Gayford, the only painting by Freud whose creation has been described in a book by the sitter, is proof (if proof were needed) that Freud could be tender and friendly in the way he painted people – the image of him as a cruel observer is a cliche.

As mobster Tony Soprano, Gandolfini showed a man who could be tender one moment and a raging ball of fury the next.

The main characteristics of dominion status were complete legislative authority as provided in the Statute of Westminster (1931) and, in the executive sphere, the right of dominion ministers to direct access to the sovereign (previously advice on dominion matters could be tendered only by United Kingdom ministers).

She could also be tender, as she is in "Peter, a Young English Girl," a portrait of the androgynous-looking British artist Hannah Gluckstein, who went by the name of Peyter Gluck.

But her tone could also be tender, as it was in "Mandaci Una Cartolina" ("Send a Postcard"), a lilting song about the recent death of her father, a strong man who had joked when he was diagnosed with terminal illness about sending a posthumous postcard: "Long live Italy, calcium, testosterone," she sang.

A bonds broker at Cantor Fitzgerald, Mr. Katsimatides, 31, had a cocky strut and melted even the most self-conscious women with, "Hey good-looking, what's up?" He could also be tender -- "Agape mou" (my love), he addressed family members, shouldering them through private tragedy.

Tender can mean soft and pliable, or it could mean money (as in legal tender), or it could be the tender (read: person who tends to someone) of children or pets.