Sentence examples for fierce tenderness from inspiring English sources

And it is a fierce tenderness.

It's a powerful piece, full of a fierce tenderness for its lost souls.

And she and Mr. Crudup connect powerfully in love scenes that convey the fierce tenderness of a relationship whose passion carries a tinge of religious fervor".

But as the book did, it always returns to the father, played with fierce tenderness by Viggo Mortensen, and his efforts to keep his boy alive and get him to some safe place -- if such a place still exists.

Her fierceness is fierce; her tenderness is tender.

His prose shows a hawk's eye and ear for detail; fierce, but shaped by tenderness, fearless honesty and humour.

Sheil and Audley give performances of harrowing power, their incarnations of blind tenderness and fierce desire building to outbursts of feral rage.

Russian-born but a US resident since the age of eight, the 23-year-old's softly expressive tone gave no inkling of the forces she would unleash, embracing fearlessly the extremes of tenderness and fierce passion.

Saramago's truth-telling arises from a rare combination of intelligence, fierce artistic courage and intense human tenderness.

I greatly admire in particular the earlier work, the tenderness of the love poems, the fierce attention to history, the intensity of the language.

Shiva is the master of both tandava, the fierce, violent dance that gives rise to energy, and lasya, the gentle, lyric dance representing tenderness and grace.