Strand feels toward that missing child (and we feel toward Strand, from whom the child always seems in some crucial way to be missing) tenderness without an object of tenderness, since you can't feel tender toward an absence.
But in "Opus 19," while the man is a poetlike visionary, the heroine is unconventionally abrasive: you don't expect this difficult gal to be the object of this tender guy's dreams.
It is anthropomorphised, the object of a tender concern of which people have ceased to be recipients: is it sick or healthy, does it need an injection or a shot in the arm, is it suffering or slowing down?
Objecting to the presence of tender dinosaurs and talking cats reflects an impulse to keep these films inside familiar generic boxes.
To his equals he was condescending, to his inferiors kind, and to the dear object of his affections exemplarily tender; correct throughout, vice shuddered in his presence, and virtue always felt his fostering hand; the purity of his private character gave effulgence to his public virtues.
There is some kind of tender but also scary exposure, some kind of recognition that passes between subject and object.
But she is full of tender admiration.
"Their skin is kind of tender.
Iconic, massive and in need of tender loving care.
The number of tender points upon study assessment was 16.7±2.3.
The Tender Point Index was calculated as the sum of each positive tender point score divided by the total number of tender points.
