Not that this is an emotional, sensitive or tender document: far from it.
Behind a social facade, each couple's encounter is distinct in its emotional quality: the tender and the tempestuous share equal time.
Funny though "Kin" often is — and audacious, too, in its inclusion of a potentially preposterous scene involving the aforementioned bear — the play is most memorable for such moments of tender emotional gravity.
But, hamstrung by the inevitable decision to film in English, there's a fundamental disconnect between performer and dialogue: scenes that should be emotional, gritty, or tender, come off as weird, comic, or plain cheesy.
Scholar Lindsay Waters, who figures Presley's range as 2 octaves, emphasizes that "his voice had an emotional range from tender whispers to sighs down to shouts, grunts, grumbles and sheer gruffness that could move the listener from calmness and surrender, to fear.
He is dutifully devoted to Claire from the moment they're affianced, and takes great care to consider not only her physical comfort, but the tender emotional state that Claire, a presumed widow, might be in when faced with a second marriage.
But they capture intense, emotional, frustrating and even tender moments.
For all the intellectual substance behind his performances, his touch is exquisite, his emotional world almost unbearably tender and vulnerable.
He renders it inseparable from the ideas that he offers and the ideals he exalts — and fuses those analyses with a fierce, tender, overwhelming emotional power.
