This made Mr. Lincoln humble, tender, forbearing, sympathetic to suffering, kind, sensitive, tolerant; broadening, deepening and widening his whole nature; making him the noblest and loveliest character since Jesus Christ…I believe that Lincoln was God's chosen one".
If it's sometimes hard to reconcile the cheeky so-and-so who introduces himself as "Susan, a crossdresser from Runcorn" with the humbling, tender romantic whose songs compare a lover's preciousness to Blake's poetry, an evening with Hawley rampages between laughter and powerfully emotional songs about loss, mortality and community.
Over the winter, a generous portion of pig's head and red lentil soup was savory and toothsome, while a humble plate of tender wild boar, buttery polenta and peperonata was slightly spicy with a mellow sweetness.
This outlook, at its very best - tender, humble, forbearing - Crivelli cannot leave behind.
You can get away with a fork on the rotisserie lobster, bathed in a luscious curry beurre fondue, and with a butter knife on the much humbler, ropy but tender bavette<\/em> (the French term for flap steak), finished with anchovy butter and herbs.
One of Humble company's tenders saw three-quarters of its mooring chains compromised, which swung it around into an adjacent oil platform, causing $200,000 in damage (1956 USD).
Even humble chicken breast is tender and flavorful here, glazed with lemon, rolled around fennel and served with a fine, unexpected combination of wild rice and Savoy cabbage.
His decision to abjure the splendour of the apostolic palace in favour of the modest Casa Santa Marta guesthouse has offered proof of his personal commitment to a humbler church, while his tender embracing of Vinicio Riva, a man terribly disfigured by tumours, underlined his hands-on pastoral approach.
You have to be humble, you have to be tender, communicate sensitively, admit your shortcomings, share your dreams and allow them to be told".
He has more sympathy for Ahmed and Rohinka Kamal, humble, hard-working immigrants whose tender regard for their children, kindness to their customers and struggles with Ahmed's hotheaded relatives give the novel its greatest tension and heart.
The gathering impression is a rare one: a tender but critical portrait of a man humbled but heroic and at peace.
