"How much the world needs tenderness today," he said.
We need tenderness not just against the brutal enemy from outside our borders, but for ourselves, caught in a web of fear and violence.
"Doing dirt on sex," he anathematised; "it is the crime of our times, because what we need is tenderness towards the body, towards sex, we need tender-hearted fucking".
Second track Ambulance finds Keeney smoother than a supper-club swinger, singing about conventional matters of the heart ("I need your tenderness before I fall apart") even if the (musical) mode of delivery is modern.
She needs the tenderness.
Director Michael McCarthy handles the dramatic trajectories well, letting the early onslaught hit out, so that the audience needs the tenderness of Eddy's and his wife-to-be's first love; her almost ecstatic hymning of him is as to a child.
The performance lacks the warmth and tenderness needed to leaven Isabella's rigid ethics.
It may be impossible, however, to fully counteract the shock of going from a 24-hour state of generalized fear-apprehension-paranoia, sustained for a year through wartime, to evenings at home on the La-Z-Boy, asked to fulfill the requirements of love and tenderness needed to sustain a family.
Unlike human police or medical professionals, Dr. Easy does not feel empathy and unfortunately cannot replicate the human tenderness needed in certain situations regarding the psyche.
The betrothed pair provide some much-needed tenderness in their scenes together, while problems rumble on for poor put-upon Bates Brendan Coylee) and his virtuous wife Anna Joanne Froggattt, also at the screening).
Her headstrong Swanilda plunged into a forceful first solo, accented with high leg extensions and her exultant performance was nuanced with tenderness when needed.
