Joey Barton (not far from being the Danny Dyer of football) and his frequent expressions of tenderness towards the gay uncle that raised him came to mind.
"Madama Butterfly," for all its greatness, certainly has problems: the sexist diminution of Cio-Cio-San (the title character, a fifteen-year-old Japanese geisha) and the Orientalist condescension toward Japanese culture coexist with powerful expressions of tenderness, nobility, and, of course, melodic genius of a high order.
Expressions of tenderness, movements of thought, sexual fantasies, our greatest battles.
His features are grotesque, but they are softened by an expression of yearning tenderness.
But once you look beyond the brutality of their war, become accustomed to the fact that they all keep a grenade close at hand — the eastern European equivalent to a jihadist's suicide belt — and overcome the fear of going to the toilet while tank shells whistle overhead, you see true emotional interaction and an expression of a tenderness that is often ignored under such circumstances.
"Here in Colombia and in the world, millions of people are still being sold as slaves; they either beg for some expressions of humanity, moments of tenderness, or they flee by sea or land because they have lost everything, primarily their dignity and their rights," the pope said just before praying before Claver's relics.
Having placed an advert in the TLS offering "expressions of affection and respect delivered weekly" to the discerning woman, Jon has been sending regular missives of gentle tenderness to Meg.
Breathiness in low-pitch intervals, accompanied by a soft voice quality, appears in the expression of politeness, gentleness or tenderness, which can be considered as attitudinal behaviors of the speaker.
Increased expression of CKM suggests that meat tenderness is increased as a result in the delay of post mortem glycolytic activity due to greater reservoirs of phosphocreatine.
