Legend holds that he wept whenever he painted the Passion; the tender, gazing concentration of the pictures — including a highly unusual "Christ Crowned with Thorns," with blood-red eyes — makes this plausible to me.
It's like watching Nick Cave perform, except where Calvi can match that sense of rawness and passion, her tender moments are more distinctly feminine, due to the tone of her voice.
Legend holds that he wept whenever he painted the Passion; the tender, gazing concentration of the pictures including a highly unusual "Christ Crowned with Thorns," with blood-red eyes makes this plausible to me.
She conveys Sally's unworldly, impractical passion with tender, intimate closeups and an intense, effects-driven subjectivity — a hallucinatory sequence in a hospital is a masterpiece of low-budget expressionism.
The Polish tenor Piotr Beczala soars as Vaudemont, at once full of passion yet tender in his wooing of Iolanta, and his love duet with Netrebko is a highlight of the evening.
With the tender passion of love there was also born the destructive passion of jealousy.
The room's decorative scheme is "the tender passion of Love".
Britons may love Madonna, but not with quite that tender passion they felt for Diana (and feel for young Prince William).
There was a tender passion beneath the dispassion.
At first, the marriage of Meir and his adoring wife, Rivka Yael Abecassiss), appears almost idyllic in its tender passion.
A study of the present American attitude toward the tender passion, as recorded in incidents culled from authentic daily news reports, often correct.
