Sentence examples for parental tenderness from inspiring English sources
He starts the film with a bluff and hearty scene between Jimmy and Sadie, and their relationship is the movie's emotional anchor a somewhat manipulative one, as most movies with sweet and cheerful children are, but nonetheless one that rings with sincere parental tenderness.
Brontë, raised with brisk Yorkshire non-showiness, may simply have misread pseudo-parental tenderness as a special favour.
"A Promise" focuses on the enormous meaning that a parent's word can have ("it lit the thoughts / around it, and I felt it warm her talk") and captures both the tenderness of parental love and the guilt a parent feels as an inhabitant of the adult world that must ultimately fall short of the faith of children.
It is a conventional enough literary assumption, but in her hands it produces singular work, in which an adult writer, full of parental tact, yet throbbing with restrained tenderness, treats both her characters and her readers as adults.
Her husband looked languorous and fatigued, in that parental fugue state of too little sleep, too much tenderness.
With tenderness, and love.
The law lacks tenderness.
