Sentence examples for read the tender from inspiring English sources

The writers I saw were displaced European intellectuals, former leftists now working secretly for the C.I.A. How I regretted as I read "The Tender Hour of Twilight," Richard Seaver's lovely posthumous memoir of his very different Paris in the '50s and his brilliant, truncated career at Grove Press in the '60s, that I hadn't spent more time on the other side of the Seine.

"There's nowhere to go but up," she said, but added that it's hard to read the tender notice without "a healthy dose of skepticism".

I can think of no surer way to be put off the work of George Eliot than by trying to read the "Wise, Witty, and Tender Sayings".

But Durasow also does tender: read the love poems, the poems about children, take a cue from "Walt Whitman in My Pocket" – "look how much goes on in there" – and, yes, there is a vast amount revealed only by reading and rereading.

If you notice your breasts getting bigger, or feeling tender, read the next sign.

Near the end of her talk she tried to read the final passage from a tender and heartbreaking essay called "Winter in the Abruzzi," about Ginzburg's last winter with her first husband.

And when these letters came to be published after Rilke's death, Kappus self-effacingly (and wisely) left his own side of the correspondence out, with the exception of one sonnet of his that Rilke copied out in his own hand – a tender and generous gesture: "Read the lines as if they were unknown to you, and you will feel in your inmost self how very much they are yours".

Gently, firmly, I explained that she should read "The Great Gatsby" first, and if she liked it, "Tender Is the Night".

Another reason to tender might be to avoid having to read the disclosures now emerging on the reorganized AT&T.

Had I read them earlier, "Tender at the Bone" would have been a completely different book.

"I remember sitting in the first eight weeks of basic training, sitting in a badly dug foxhole and the mounds outside of El Paso, reading 'Tender Is the Night.' I remember thinking, 'The Army is not so bad,' " Mr. Benton said.