Sentence examples for speaking tenderly from inspiring English sources

When Mr. Smits began speaking tenderly about how his character became a lector, Mr. Cruz smiled.

When Esme saves the Sergeant or when Zooey saves Franny, it is by speaking tenderly and precisely about ordinary loves.

A Latino guy in a blue mechanic's uniform was crouched in a corner of the cell, speaking tenderly through the bars to an underage prostitute who was seated on a folding chair, her slender wrist handcuffed to a bar.

Woeful silence descended when we watched the stories, the interpretations which brutalising stereotypes do not allow space for: a man speaking tenderly about his father; the pastor who rejects machismo and self-destructive violence and is loudly mocked by his young congregation.

He spoke tenderly of Dixie Lee Ray's courageous decision to dump him.

Beating her chest with one hand, she uttered a piercing wail, and then spoke tenderly to the body: "Come back to me, my daughter.

Denis Healey, who fought against Tony Benn in one of the most bruising heavyweight political contests of the past 40 years, spoke tenderly of the late warming in relations he enjoyed with a man he once loathed.

Across Mexico this week, Pope Francis spoke tenderly to masses of ordinary people and delivered blistering messages—"God will hold accountable the enslavers of our day"—to drug lords, corrupt government officials, oligarchs, and even bishops.

Former wife Brooke Hayward (the first of five, the second of whom stuck around for a total of two weeks) speaks tenderly and respectfully of him in the book accompanying the exhibition of her husband's "lost album" at the Royal Academy.

Once known as a one-man orgy of abandon and excess (assaulting paparazzi, assaulting hotel rooms, getting affianced to half of Hollywood), he speaks tenderly and with raw joy about his life as an expatriate with the French pop star Vanessa Paradis and their 22-month-old daughter, Lily-Rose.

Although his spontaneous, unscripted manner has led some critics to label him as erratic, gaffe-prone and even mean-spirited, the young people at the Dean offices often compare the former governor to a favorite uncle, and speak tenderly about his frayed sweaters and raincoats.