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.
"Her possessions?" Joan seems unable to suppress a smile, though she modifies it at once with an expression of tenderness.
The gentle lyricism of Fink's vocal line completed the music's expression of tenderness and contentment.
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.
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.
However, when the animals differ from the reference population by more than one factor (gender, or environmental conditions, etc), the expression levels of these genes cannot explain anymore the variability of tenderness scores.
It consists of the following elements: the false identification of liberal values with an oppressive West, and of political Islamism with an oppressed third world; an unreflective, unqualified opposition to every exercise of American power; a certain blindness regarding, or even tenderness toward, contemporary expressions of anti-Semitism.
