Sentence examples for sort of tender from inspiring English sources

We should always look back on our own past with a sort of tender contempt.

I imagined you there in the doorway, looking at me with cold fascination, with a sort of tender and despairing iciness.

The naval Captain, finishing off his brandy and helping himself to another, can perceive through her patterned skirt the sort of tender young buttocks that most arouse him and, free of the doctor's professional constraints, envisions himself taking her from behind, while squeezing both soft plump cheeks in his hands, slapping them playfully.

He has the sort of tender voice that gets people saying things like, "He sends me".

With 'Eden,' Mia hassen-Løve hagainain captured the sort of tender, delicate, complex feelings and moments which are hard to put into words, let alone onto film.

These reactions in turn, influenced how the healthcare professional dealt with the patient:'I'm not as sensitive and sort of tender loving care in my voice [with men] as I am with women … I'm much more matter of fact and don't make a big issue out of it' (Breast care nurse).

I sort of agree.

"I have said that there is nothing to be gained by any sort of secret tender to Cuauhtemoc, because it's a waste of time," Mr. Castaneda said.

The Finns and Spanish, among others, have never been keen on this sort of fixed tender, but they were outmanoeuvred early on by the Germans, who grew up with the system.

State-owned Telekom Malaysia is also manoeuvring to salvage TRI, the country's second-largest mobile-phone operator, from Mr Tajudin's empire.But Malaysia's government still tolerates murky dealings when it suits: last year, for instance, it sold a stake in the post office without any sort of public tender.

She and an old-timer with a truck and a taste for moonshine (of both the verbal and liquid varieties) are the only people around other than Alvin and Lance, and the movie is, above all, the story of the awkward, hostile and occasionally tender sort-of-friendship that develops between these mismatched colleagues.