With the introduction, in 1970, of Snoopy's friend the tiny yellow bird Woodstock, Schulz gave himself access to a whole fresh realm of tenderness; a sort of parenthood at last crept into the strip, where human parents are invisible.
But Graubard's most personal work in clubs, in crash pads, on the beach is fresh, loose, and charged with tenderness.
You can make it your way, revisit those times when it seemed your broken heart would never heal, relive those moments of tenderness when love was fresh and promised to last forever, and re-experience the occasional exultation when things are going so well that you want to shout "I've Got the World on a String".
This kind of tenderness was new.
That attention to detail fosters tenderness, an absence of grit and a fresh taste with, at times, a very slight note of basil.
His attitude toward the three muses was an apt mix of authority and curiosity, and there was a tenderness — too human perhaps but lovely and fresh — in the way he arranged them and touched their faces.
Hei-Kyung Hong is a lovely, demure and vocally elegant Mimi; Frank Lopardo brings lyrical tenderness and nice ringing top range to Rodolfo Gino Quilicoo is in fresh voice as Marcello, and everyone else is just fine.
That's an agonizingly familiar refrain, but one that the young Argentine director Alexis Dos Santos relates with such tenderness and with so much ethereal beauty that it feels like something fresh.
If it's still available, consider house-cured gravlax, an artistic but modest tower that layers fresh corn and scallion, avocado and thinly sliced salmon, or meaty, finely grained beef cheeks braised to tenderness.
The Roxburgh offering consisted of four small trimmed cutlets of melt-in-the-mouth tenderness, cooked perfectly pink and arranged on a mound of kumera puree enlivened with a touch of fresh ginger.
Fresh takes on familiar characters include a lovestruck, pre-filicidal Medea and a pompous, blowhard Hercules unexpectedly overcome with romantic tenderness.
