Sentence examples for layer of tenderness from inspiring English sources

It's what gave them a layer of tenderness, vulnerability, and strangeness.

But the overriding air is one of tenderness, with Plummer intelligently suggesting layers of confusion beneath his bravado, engaging our sympathies and ultimately winning our loyalty.

Cruelty erupts out of tenderness.

This kind of tenderness was new.

Perillo is also capable of tenderness, writing of her father's work overseeing bricklayers, or, in a poem about ex-lovers, her "absent children's nondepletion of the ozone layer".

There is the beginning of tenderness.

It's not a question of tenderness.

There wasn't a lot of tenderness.

His tone, though it admits of tenderness, is stoical.

He had a streak of tenderness in him.

The hint of tenderness cloaking Charlotte's dismissal disgusted Stevick.