Sentence examples for intimate tenderness from inspiring English sources

He was also a noted ballad player who could create arpeggiated, rhapsodic lines with an intimate tenderness that contrasted with his gruff attack and aggressive energy at faster tempos.

In both Ms. Smith, working from taxidermic specimens, isolates small creatures on wide expanses of white ground, but renders their fur and feathers with an intimate tenderness that Dürer would approve of.

Or the extraordinary intimate tenderness of the relationship between Antonio and Bassanio, which defies categorisation: "We cannot say," observes Wells, "that Shakespeare explicitly portrays a sexual relationship, but equally... we cannot deny that the text permits such a sub-textual reading".

Yet, strangely, it was rare for our letters to become as sexually intimate as in this first exchange of intimate tenderness.

Ancient or modern, stories of intimate violence and tenderness still vex humankind.

She is best in the intimate moments, where her natural tenderness and decency work for her: sharing a joint with Chance; watching him in her makeup mirror as he auditions for her, telling the story of his botched life.

It's a moment of tenderness that is surprisingly intimate when watched through a window just a few feet away.

But whether he is sending up new fashions, recording a grim line of factory buildings or depicting an intimate personal encounter, the drawings share one quality: tenderness.

The reader here learns how Tony Last's tenderness for this place is born of intimate knowledge.

It will leave you stunned and sated, having savored an intimate and sumptuous epic of elation and defeat, jealousy and tenderness, life and death, grain and fish.

The movie also dramatizes, with romantic tenderness and insight, Homer's altered self-image, his intimate inhibitions in his relationship with his fiancée (Cathy O'Donnell).