Sentence examples for tender efforts from inspiring English sources

By now he is more aware of his surroundings and has formed an unmistakable bond with Dawn, whose tender efforts to engage with Natasha on behalf of a baby boy who has stolen her heart are a thing of beauty.

Save the Leftovers: After all your tender, loving efforts, the brisket may get eaten up so fast that you'll wonder whether there will be enough for brisket sandwiches later.

The sometime Dinosaur Jr frontman has risen to the challenge with a rather lovely collection of tender singer-songwriterly efforts called Several Shades Of Why, featuring guests such as Band Of Horses' Ben Bridwell and ex-Mercury Rev flautist Suzanne Thorpe.

I felt sympathy for the man, making such a tender and dedicated effort; and sympathy for the woman, locked in such a paralyzed and miserable state.

Oscars for screenwriting (Horton Foote) and acting (Robert Duvall) capped the Australian director Bruce Beresford's efforts in TENDER MERCIES (1983).

What follows are dopey cultural clashes; scuttled financing for the film; further wounds to Chris the character's professional self-esteem; and efforts, alas, at tender emotionalism and Acting.

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Following poor test screening results, distributor Universal Pictures made little effort to publicize Tender Mercies, which Duvall attributed to the studio's lack of understanding of country music.

The Group can only hope to approximate the Laboratory's initial brilliance; failure is built into the enterprise, making the effort something of a tender joke.

"We were a little careless," HSV coach Markus Gisdol said generously, in an effort to protect "the tender shoots" of progress he had witnessed.

PFM's effort to enjoin the tender offer is meritless; their legal theories are self-serving and would harm the rest of the Theranos shareholders.