Talking Heads by Alan Bennett was a real inspiration – they were so extraordinary, so tender and complex.
Artemis Cooper's biography of Patrick Leigh Fermor John Murrayy) is an outstanding account of an extraordinary life; tender and evocative, without ever hardening into hagiography.
This novel has the expansive sweep of Gabriel García Márquez's magical realism; like Peter Carey he plunges fully into a new world; his extraordinary protagonist, tender and heartless in equal measure, recalls that of Tom McCarthy's "C".
His nominations had a lot to do with Mr. Romanek's extraordinary video, which was tender and creepy: the singer sat at a banquet table, impassive, as scenes of a younger, hardier Mr. Cash flashed past.
What they share with Ferrante's earlier work is a tender bleakness an extraordinary honesty, an absolute commitment to the avoidance of sentimentality, and beautifully spare, lucid prose.
Whereas Sylvia takes the stage with huge jumps to the sound of brass and drums, the first solo of Aminta is soft, tender, questing, with extraordinary turns that end with the torso leading forward over a pointed toe.
Points on other meridians, ah shi points (unclassified tender points) and Extraordinary points comprised 16%, 14%and7%7% of total (see online supplement 2).
Wim Wenders, though, offered an extraordinary experience with his Pina: a tender tribute to the late German choreographer Pina Bausch.
A chronicling of a few of the classes of persons who should, at this season, tender fervent thanks for extraordinary comforts and benefits received the past twelvemonths.
By W. E. Farbstein The New Yorker, November 28 , 1936P. 36 A chronicling of a few of the classes of persons who should, at this season, tender fervent thanks for extraordinary comforts and benefits received the past twelvemonths.
