With its astounding inventory, and because it has always been the sort of cozy refuge that invites lingering, Tender Buttons has been a button mecca over the years for in-the-know collectors, craft types, sartorial perfectionists, celebrities, oddity seekers and not a few tourists.
Mr. Anderszewski lingered over tender phrases in the Romanze, brought a tidal surge to the Intermezzo and maintained clarity at a blinding clip in the Finale.
Sports teams can barely get through kick-off without having a tender, lingering embrace.
The patio is perfect for lingering over fork-tender brisket ($8) and jicama-spiked red coleslaw ($4).
Mr. Gosling played with a dark intensity in the outer movements, and lingered over the tender Adagietto.
Mr. Harrington and Hunk Dutt on viola lingered over the tender melody lines of Agustín Lara's "Se Me Hizo Fácil" and Margarita Lecuona's "Tabu".
The premise of the improvised storyline is undeniably abstruse - the star-crossed lovers are a confused cheerleader and her cello-playing paramour, who wears a wolf mask - but as tender as any lingering shot of Molly Ringwald's face.
Violence, grinding poverty, flood, earthquakes all leave a lingering image of a benighted nation bereft of tender moments.
The tender Allemande shimmered through the chapel, lingering in its far corners; in the Gavottes, passing dissonances rang out with the puckish wit of Thelonious Monk's minor-key jabs.
There are other tender spots in the 2012 lineup, with questions lingering about several other races.
