Sentence examples for devoid of tenderness from inspiring English sources

Devoid of tenderness, these rough, unpretty couplings have a brutal urgency that portrays carnal passion as a violent act, only one step removed from rape.

Later that night, I wept for my mother, for all the moments in her life that I imagined had been devoid of tenderness and touch.

Although the fierce ease with which capitalism husks humanity is one of his main concerns, though debris (emotional and material) is one of his chief preoccupations, and though rupture is the texture that most attracts his eye, his vision is not devoid of either tenderness or hope.

Cruelty erupts out of tenderness.

The truth with a side of tenderness.

This kind of tenderness was new.

There they are, barely able to speak, trying to articulate the approaching void, face to face with the apocalypse, and even so, possessed by some final form of tenderness, some need for a helping hand in the darkness, some hope that if we are unknowable dust, that dust is, at least, not devoid of love.

There is the beginning of tenderness.

It's not a question of tenderness.

There wasn't a lot of tenderness.

He writes with a ghost of tenderness.