Sentence examples for tender child from inspiring English sources

Much later, when she is "skidding" through the memories of her life while waiting to die in hospital in the 80s, she remembers how her variety of fierce maternal anxiety led her to think, watching her tender child tottering into the world, that she should really get "a spare".

As a tender child surrounded by a loving family, I experienced the deep wound of loneliness without a father.

Later, when I put my arm around her for a photo, I was surprised by how gentle she felt, in her black sweater, reminiscent of a tender child.

Sai Baba added, in explanation of the fact that he was living in a Mosque, that while still a tender child his Brahmin parents handed him over to the care of a fakir who brought him up.

Iris knew me like I knew her, so we worked together, and her tender child's heart was proud to change things up and adjust into big sister mode.

At a jetty opposite the fairytale turrets of Ormidale Lodge, we waited for the tender, children buoyed by trailblazing, adults sweaty.

When the title character, a druid priestess who has secretly violated her vows and given birth to two children by an occupying Roman, contemplates killing them, she pours out her anguish in a profoundly sad melody, "Teneri figli" ("Tender children").

As painful as this is to church leaders, the fullest disclosure of abuses is a minimal prerequisite for rebuilding the laity's shattered confidence that their church might once more be entrusted with the care of tender children.

Education is about children -- real, living, breathing, complicated, tender, diverse children.

His subjects, too, while often moving and tender, like "Children Dancing" (1948), a view of mother, father and children in a sweet family celebration, can be sentimental and derivative, like "The Ballad Singer" (1939-40), a Picassoid study of a black guitarist, mouth open in song.

From this perspective, splitting up with tender, vulnerable children in the mix is seen as a parental infraction.