He could be tender and adventurous, and had an unerring eye for beautiful things.
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.
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".
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".
As mobster Tony Soprano, Gandolfini showed a man who could be tender one moment and a raging ball of fury the next.
But if not enough shares are tendered, the company could go on indefinitely without ever paying the dividend.
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.
