Craig Lee Thomas, under Philip Emeott's direction, gives an attention-grabbing performance as Emma's boyfriend, Larry, tender enough to be protective of Emma but tough enough to come after Mickey with a baseball bat when the couple need drug money.
And in the small role of Cassie's fallback boyfriend Aaron Roman Weiner finds tender shadings in a man unwilling to become another of this messed-up family's casualties.
So for a moment Mather imagines that Maureen has grown suddenly tender toward him, even with the boyfriend lurking in the bedroom.
The episode that chronicles the departure of Neela (Parminder Nagra) included many tearful moments, like a tender airport adieu with her former boyfriend, Simon David LyonsSimon David Lyons
They concluded the set with an old British ballad: "Come All Ye Fair and Tender Maidens," a venerable warning about bad boyfriends.
"The other mothers probably think it's a tender gesture, a woman asking her husband or boyfriend to warm her hands in the deepening chill of a fall evening.
Their boyfriends are the stuff of girlish fantasy: tender, unspoiled dreamboats with sculpted abs (over which the camera lingers), puppy dog eyes, hearts of gold and well-scrubbed vocabularies.
His boyfriend, Eric, was convalescing with a broken ankle, but the scene of their reunion was so tender even Rick had to lurk in the background and watch in stunned silence.
Marielle Heller's feature debut The Diary of a Teenage Girl was one of the major breakouts at Sundance with its tender tale of a teen in 1970s San Francisco coming of age by having an affair with her mother's boyfriend.
Anyway, my tender age means my moral compass is so poorly developed that I've got no qualms whatsoever about having a boyfriend and a girlfriend.
