He sleeps eight hours and "creates during the rest," said Mr. Mortimer, 33, a compact man with a goatee who has the gingerly tendered devotion of a rescued stray.
The inevitable "My Funny Valentine," which Chaka Khan's influential interpretation turned into a flamboyant vocal showpiece, was restored to its previous incarnation as a tender statement of devotion.
They walk home to the house they have shared for 30 years and Edith makes tea while Abby fills a bird feeder in the yard, creating a picture of such tender domesticity and devotion that when Abby has a stroke and dies, viewers are likely to feel the loss along with Edith.
Mr. Ross's quiet performance gently carried it into a private realm where its high-flown assertions of eternal devotion became tender endearments.
I know how much you are looking forward to being grandparents and I know you will welcome the baby and give it the same love and devotion and tender care you gave me when I was a child.
You know how every single time you blow your load inside a cheap, plastic sex doll, you always end up feeling that beautiful, tender moment of shared devotion and pray to whatever god you believe in that the two of you can spend the rest of your lives together inseparably intertwined?
Morris asks, "Is it possible to offer more than the most tender affection and a lifelong devotion?" Dr. Sloper, suspecting the worst, answers, "A lifelong devotion is measured after the fact; and meanwhile it is usual in these cases to give a few material securities".
Her constant subject is longing: for sex both tender and kinky but also for companionship and devotion.
She displays no spark of self-transformative energy, and that's why Lila — for all her deep and tender compassion, her true and strong love, her devotion — is doomed.
