Their marriage just over a year later did not prevent Hardy from recollecting his early days with Emma in tender, grief-racked poems.
Alternating between raw grief, tender regret and a wry sense of humor, Mr. Adamson gives an extraordinary performance.
His stories are also tender, funny, heartbreaking, grief-stricken, poetic, and beautiful.
For me, the words delivered in Seymour's urgent vocals have always connected with the most open, most tender part of drunkenness, grief, or euphoria.
Whether he is writing about one man's painful divorce or the loss of an entire family in a shipping accident, Petterson's investigations of human grief are tender, powerful and, paradoxically, uplifting.
Woods did not mean to break up the tender scene, but after the grief he caused Sean O'Hair a few weeks earlier, he could not leave the golf course Sunday without giving him a handshake and a hug.
In a statement, Chakrabarti called How to Be Both a "tender, brilliant and witty novel of grief, love, sexuality and shape-shifting identity".
Sharma's deft examination of grief is imbued with tender moments and details about immigrant life.
Aid was tendered freely in the hope that the grief of those who lost loved ones might be even slightly mitigated".
Flora's lamentable passion, crown'd with unspeakable joy and comfort : Flora she did sore lament, her spirit did decay : Strephon fill'd her with content, and cast all grief away : to the tune of Tender hearts of London City.
Compelling detail, tender, subtle colouring, economical text and pure emotion – loneliness, grief, hope and eventual joy – add up to a book of quiet but considerable power.
