"tender gestures" is correct and commonly used in written English.
It can be used to describe gentle and loving movements or actions, often used in the context of expressing love or care for someone. Example: Her heart melted when she saw his tender gestures, like brushing a strand of hair off her face and placing a gentle kiss on her forehead.
Are we not familiar with the lovely and tender gestures of the holy women bending over the torn body of their Lord?
Ms. Chung, a Korean-born modern dancer, filled "Of Love and Memories," a solo for herself, with tender gestures of longing.
As those who remain begin to cluster and converge for his funeral, Porterfield traces their stories (with a very personal technique of simple ingenuity) and, in the process, invokes, with slight and tender gestures — and with the remarkable, confessional performances he elicits from his young actors — worlds of experience and feeling.
As the two lovers part, Romeo (Sonny Valicenti) offers Juliet (Laura Esposito) one final, tiny finger-wave, a boyish and tender gesture that elicited a quiet "awww" from many in the audience.
"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.
"Of course chocolate is a highly desirable material, and to lick my self in chocolate is a kind of tender gesture.
The next time you and your partner are lying down or cuddling, you can try this tender gesture.
Though it's not particularly sexual, the butterfly kiss is very intimate, and you don't want to shock someone you've only been dating for a few weeks with this tender gesture.
Despite the tender maternal gesture, dinner is likely to be most unsatisfying -- the massive turkey on the table remains uncooked and makes for the most horrific object, its rubbery, slightly bluish skin resting in a pool of runny blood.
She speaks with an East European accent in a low, melodious voice, and as she speaks she has a trick of moving her stiffened right hand up and down, in a tender chopping gesture.
That gesture, tender and a bit awkward, is the most startling of the night.
