And this season offers us a chance to express that tender impulse consciously, in word and deed, to ourselves and others.
Indeed, several people who were interviewed expressed a tender fondness for their soon-to-be former prime minister that was often lost in characterizations of him that compared him to "cold pizza" and an "oji-san," or old bumbling man.
The Republicans, expressing a tender concern for black voting rights, want to keep the old system, on the ground that it at least guaranteed a handful of minority legislators in Trenton.
They were privates, all but one of them in their early twenties, and they expressed a tender and fatalistic affection for the young man they called Fro. "That incident woke me up," Marcus Murphy, a blond, soft-spoken Indianan, said.
Such persons tend to show a great concern for efficiency, are overly devoted to work and productivity, and are usually deficient in the ability to express warm or tender emotions.
The experiences of being a people and loving your country are expressed with homely, tender, inwards-turning images of house and fold, and none of the defensive emotion someimes attached to these concepts.
Central to the memories and the family occasions are the a capella performances of Tin Pan Alley songs at family gatherings that express their hopes, desires and tender reveries.
For him, pictures of dock workers in New Brunswick, crabbers on the Hudson, swimmers at Glen Island Beach and ballet dancers on Fire Island express a deeper interest: a tender, muscular celebration of the angular male figure.
My point is either you do not bring it up, but if you are going to bring it up, then tender an apology — don't just express regret.
The act of binding seems to express the ambivalence of motherly love – cosseting and tender on the one hand, stifling and possessive on the other.
