'delicate tenderness' is correct and usable in written English.
It is an appealing phrase that can be used to describe a range of emotions, particularly those that are gentle and caring. For example, "The delicate tenderness of her voice made me feel safe and loved."
Her delicate tenderness will break your heart.
The ratio and handling of these ingredients give us the full spectrum of pastry, from delicate tenderness to brittle flakiness.
Their connection is explosive — roughly forceful at the edges, yet in its center there is a delicate tenderness.
Of the three female Hamlets I've seen, Frances de la Tour's was marked by a swashbuckling vigour, the German Angela Winkler's by a delicate tenderness and Maxine Peake's by a built-in bullshit detector.
Who knew that Mr. Naughton is also a pop crooner with an extraordinarily beautiful voice -- a rich, virile baritone shading toward bass -- that can express a quiet, almost delicate tenderness with the same confidence with which it conveys a rugged authority?
One of my favorite stories that perfectly illustrates the delicate tenderness of my son came from a fellow teacher.
It's not often that the typically rough-and-tumble atmosphere of the comedy stage softens enough to allow such moments of delicate human tenderness.
Instead, the director and her very solid cast find just the right delicate balance of tenderness, melancholy and humor in this story of a 1940s New York family, whose damage is traced back to the emotional scars of its steely German-Jewish immigrant matriarch (2 10).
Micaela has the loveliest songs in the opera, and the Romanian soprano Anita Hartig, whose Met debut was in this season's La Boheme, delivered them with aching tenderness and delicate phrasing, especially her third-act aria "je dis que rien ne m'epouvante".
It seems to have everything: lightness of touch, colour, tenderness and a delicate but impelling rhythmic impetus.
Sirk mixes bold strokes (Mardi Gras scenes) with delicate ones (the rumpled Hudson's tenderness toward Malone) and keeps the relationships among the characters off balance and tinged with a darkness that suits his noirish palette.
