Of the other principal cast members, both Hoellering and Flinn found Leslie Howard to be "convincing" as the weak-willed Ashley, with Flinn identifying Olivia de Havilland as a "standout" as Melanie; Nugent was also especially taken with de Havilland's performance, describing it as a "gracious, dignified, tender gem of characterization".
Roocroft's tender, gracious performance is the fulcrum around which the production revolves.
Countless women of 'today' regard their most essential task as out of date and cast it away with a negligent wave of the hand and a deprecating smile, and compete with men in all areas, blind to the fact that it is precisely the tender, vulnerable, gracious woman who is attractive to man.
"Thus bemoaned the Geatish folk their master's fall, comrades of his hearth, crying that he was ever of the kings of earth of men most generous and to men most gracious, to his people most tender and for praise most eager".
Short extracts do not fairly represent translations of long works, but Tolkien will have taken much care with the last lines of the poem: "Thus bemourned the Geatish folk their master's fall, comrades of his hearth, crying that he was ever of the kings of earth of men the most generous and to men most gracious, to his people most tender and for praise most eager".
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Her career has ricocheted between the gothic and the zany, the gracious and the macabre, the indignant and the cute, the tender and the terrible.
He was more persuasive in the Allegretto quasi andantino, with its jaunty march rhythms and gracious melody, and the Allegro vivace, in which an alternation of passionate outbursts and tender asides sounds like an internal debate.
