Sentence examples for tender humor from inspiring English sources

With tender humor, Trillin pays tribute to his late wife, fondly recalling her "weird predilection for limiting our family to three meals a day".

Tati was a music-hall mime before turning to film directing, and it is the dusty stage world of magic and dancing girls that this film recalls with a delicate visual style, tender humor and a sense of loss.

It is like a momentary vacuum into which rushes all that I love, a sense of oneness with sun and stone, a thrill of gratitude to whom it may concern, perhaps to the contrapuntal genius of human fate or to the tender ghosts humoring a lucky mortal.

Despite the bleakness of the movie's themes, it has a tender strain of humor.

The angry and competitive man (James Thurber) writes tender and rueful humor because his own condition is what he seeks to escape.

The humor was tender and humane.

A beloved teacher and colleague, Professor Kraut inspired all with his intellectual brilliance, unflagging energy, devilish humor and tender compassion.

This book reminds writers to watch the hubris and check literary-attitudes at the door; but it does it with tender love and great humor.

David Bianculli, a writer for New York Daily News, said the pilot "not only establishes the character of Monk, it establishes the perfect tone for the show, a delicate but deft blend of wry humor and tender drama".

It moves through aggression, nostalgia and tender idealism, and between rowdy humor and social criticism.

He got in a few nasty zingers, but he has a primitive idea of humor: find a tender spot (Clooney's sex life, Hollywood Jews, gays, Rihanna) and poke a stick in it.